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Quite recently, the Partner Company delighted fans of exotic tomatoes by presenting a new variety to gardeners - cherry tomato Lyuba F1. The novelty has not yet been entered into the State Register of the Russian Federation, but this does not diminish the dignity of the variety.
Description of the variety
Cherry tomato Lyuba F1 belongs to early maturing hybrids. The period from germination to the use of the first fruits is 93 - 95 days. The variety is indeterminate, LSL-type, and therefore needs a garter. The bush is formed into 1 - 2 stems. The leaves of the plant are medium in size, rich in green. The first cluster is laid after the 9th leaf and forms up to 20 small and very tasty fruits. In the future, the brush is formed through 2 sheets.
Description of fruits
Cherry tomato variety Lyuba has rich scarlet fruit. The brush contains from 15 to 20 rounded two-chambered berries with a thin but dense skin weighing 20 to 25 g. The variety tolerates transportation well, while the fruits are plucked and placed in a container with whole brushes. Tomatoes have a pleasant sweetish taste with hints of sourness. Tomatoes are great both for fresh use and for making preserves, sauces and juice. But most often these beautiful berries are used in salads and to decorate vegetable dishes.
Characteristics of cherry tomato Lyuba
Cherry tomato Luba is a fruitful hybrid of early ripening. In protected ground, its yield reaches 12 - 14 kg / m22... The variety is resistant to viral and tobacco mosaic.
Assessment of the pros and cons
Despite the fact that cherry tomato Luba F1 is a new hybrid, it has already gained its admirers, especially in the face of children. The variety has a number of advantages, which include:
- Early ripeness. Getting the first fruits is possible as early as 3 months after germination.
- When grown in greenhouses, the bushes are able to reach the two-meter mark, and produce more than 10 kg of excellent fruits. And if all the rules of agricultural technology are observed, the harvest can reach 13 kg per sq. m.
- The brush has 15 - 20 berries and weighs 350 - 450 g.
- The fruits of the correct shape, have the same size, rich color without greening, which makes the hybrid competitive in the vegetable market.
- Good transportability and good taste.
- The tomato ripens perfectly, which makes it possible to harvest with brushes.
- Possibility to form a tomato into one or two stems.
- Prolonged yield period. This makes it possible to consume fresh fruits until late autumn.
- Resistant to many diseases. Allows you to save on the frequency of treatments with protective equipment and get high quality products at lower costs.
The main disadvantages of cherry tomato Luba from "Partner" are called:
- growing a plant exclusively in closed ground;
- the need for an obligatory garter of the stems;
- exactingness to light;
- weekly bush formation (removal of stepchildren);
- deterioration at high stocking density.
Judging by the photos, reviews and yield, the Lyuba tomato will deservedly win its place in the greenhouses and greenhouses of gardeners.
Growing rules
To obtain high-quality seedlings, you need to take care of the soil in which it will grow. If the soil is prepared independently, then the ratio of sod land, peat, compost and sand should be in a ratio of 2: 2: 2: 1. After that, the soil is disinfected by any of the available methods.
When preparing for growing seedlings in plastic containers, they are poured over with boiling water before use.If you sow seeds in wooden boxes, then they should be whitewashed with lime or treated with a blowtorch. These simple actions will allow you to disinfect the container and avoid possible fungal diseases for future seedlings.
Sowing seeds for seedlings
Sowing seeds of this variety for seedlings should be in early to mid-March. Considering that the seed of the hybrids before sale has already been treated with special compounds, they are sown dry in prepared moist soil, sprinkled with a thin layer of soil, watered and placed in a warm place with a temperature of 22-24 oC.
After the emergence of seedlings, the container with the seedlings is placed in a sunny place, and the temperature is lowered to 16 ° C for several days. When all the sprouts appear, the temperature is raised to a level of 20 - 22 ° C.
When 1 - 2 true leaves appear, it is necessary to dive into peat cubes or cups. Further, caring for young seedlings consists in watering, feeding and spraying with nutrient solutions.
Transplanting seedlings
In protected ground, seedlings of the Lyuba variety are planted in the first decade of May. If the greenhouse does not even have emergency heating, the planting dates must be shifted to the end of the month.
For the development of additional roots during planting, the seedlings are buried along the first leaf. The recommended stocking density of this variety when grown in 1 stem is 3 - 4 plants per 1 m2, in 2 stems - 2 plants per 2 m2.
Next, a twine is tied to a peg near the tomato plant, which can subsequently withstand the weight of the plant with fruits, and is fixed to a fastener or wire under the roof of the greenhouse. In the future, as the tomatoes grow, they will twine around the plants.
Care rules
To get a good tomato harvest, you need to create optimal conditions under which the variety will reveal all its potential.
Conditions close to ideal are able to create such agrotechnical measures:
- systematic watering;
- mulching the beds;
- bush formation, removal of stepchildren;
- regular collection of ripe fruits;
- preventive measures to combat diseases and pests.
Conclusion
Cherry tomato Lyuba is a very promising and beautiful variety that children especially like. If you make an effort and effort, then you get 10 kg from 1 m2 fragrant, aligned fruits are within the power of every gardener.
Reviews of cherry tomato Lyuba
Reviews of gardeners about cherry tomato Lyuba F1 are only positive.
