If you have been growing vegetables on your site for several years and want to please yourself with something new and unusual on look and taste, pay attention to this exotic vegetable, which can be successfully grown in your summer cottage plot.
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The fruit of the Big White Blues tomato ripens in various colors: yellow, brown or purple. This is due to various factors. Purple fruit is the rarest - this is the effect of low temperatures; when grown, they are specially highlighted. In the greenhouse, the bushes are additionally illuminated with electric lamps.
Tomato Big White Blues is a godsend for professionals, it is original, capricious, and needs increased care. This is justified by juicy, unusual, appetizing fruits, more often the original brownish lilac-yellowish color.
Attempts to develop this variety were first undertaken by the German breeder Reinhardt Kraft. But it was perfected by Canadian Stefan Marier, who crossed Great White and OSU blue.
1. Benefits:
- fruits of good quality - large, without cracks, hypoallergenic;
- resistant to disease;
- a high yield is guaranteed under certain conditions.
2. Disadvantages:
- support support is required;
- need to remove excess shoots from plants;
- late ripeness;
- the yield in open space is low.
Great Write Blues grows well in Central Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. The variety is considered to be exotic, but its fruits are not suitable for winter harvesting.
The highest yield can be obtained in a closed greenhouse. It does not grow outdoors. The fruits can be eaten fresh or as a juice.
3. Specifications
- Tall, reaches up to 1.8 m.
- The mass of a ripe tomato is three hundred grams.
- To get a good harvest, it is necessary to form an ovary into one or two stems.
4. Secrets of good seedlings
- It is recommended to soak the seeds for 20 minutes. in a slightly colored, slightly borosy solution of potassium permanganate. Those that have surfaced are thrown away - they will not germinate. Those that are at the bottom are sown, after washing in water.
- To disinfect the seeds, they are left for 20 minutes. in a container with vodka.
- Seedlings will sprout sooner if, before planting, the seeds are placed in a warm place for three days, covered with a wet cloth, not allowing it to dry all this time.
5. Transplanting
- Seedlings that have reached 30-35 cm must be transplanted into the ground.
- The end of May and the beginning of June is a favorable time for the middle lane. Frost is no longer threatening, and the earth warms up to about ten degrees Celsius.
- The land is prepared in advance, preferably in the fall. It is fertilized with horse manure or complex mineral fertilizer.
- Seedlings are propped up with supports.
- After planting, they water it, but next time it is required to do this and feed after seven days.
6. Care secrets
- It is necessary to constantly remove excess shoots from plants.
- Air the greenhouse every day.
- Take measures to prevent diseases and protect against pests, preferably several times per season.
- Watering the bushes daily, in the evening.
- Weed beds from weeds.
- Fertilize the soil with useful substances once every 12 days.
If all these conditions are met, a good harvest and admirable reviews from neighbors are guaranteed, and this tasty and healthy vegetable will remain a favorite on the table for a long time.
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