Tomato De Barao red

One of the popular canning varieties is De Barao in any of its manifestations: gold, pink, black, royal, orange. The red variety is in no way inferior to its counterparts, especially since this is the very first species that Russian gardeners and truck farmers met. A versatile, unpretentious, indeterminate variety yields delicious delicious fruits, suitable for fresh consumption, but ideal for whole-fruit preservation. The tomato is grown in the open field and in polycarbonate and film greenhouses. The plant produces tomatoes with high marketability and excellent transportability.

Powerful tall bushes (200 cm or more) have strongly branched strong elongated stems covered with dark green potato-type foliage. The leaf plate and internodes are of medium size.

Advantages of De Barao red:

• unpretentiousness;

• yield and extended fruiting;

• good resistance to late blight;

• high decorativeness, versatility and taste.

Disadvantages:

• the need for shaping and pinning;

• requirement for growing in a greenhouse in cold regions.

Yellow flowers are collected in simple inflorescences, forming brushes with 7-9 ovaries. The formation of inflorescences occurs with enviable regularity, the first is formed over 9-11 leaves, all subsequent ones every three nodes. The plant forms up to 10 brushes.

Small tomatoes, weighing in the region of 70-90 grams, have a milky green color in an immature state. They change it to carmine red at the stage of technical and physiological ripeness. Fruits are aligned, uniform, regular oval (ovoid) shape - they look amazing, like wax dummies.

The dense and juicy pulp of the fruit is covered with a thin but strong skin that prevents the tomatoes from cracking during heat treatment. Despite the juiciness, the fruits have a high dry matter content, so they are not suitable for juicing, in contrast to the preparation of tomato paste and sauces. The red pulp is divided into two seed chambers with a small number of seeds, which have excellent germination and transfer all the parental qualities.

The variety belongs to the mid-season category - the declared ripening period is from 115 to 120 days, but the climatic features of the region always make their own adjustments. Fruiting is extended, the harvest is harvested throughout August-September, and you can remove both brown and green fruits, since they ripen perfectly in a dark room. This quality helps out the gardeners of the northern regions with a short summer period.

The variety belongs to high-yielding - with good agricultural technology, one bush is capable of producing up to 5-5.6 kg, from a square meter to 18 kg.

De Barao red is grown in seedlings, the sowing dates are in the first half of March. Plants are transplanted to a permanent place in the second half of May.If the tomato grows in the open field, then the seedlings are planted after the threat of return frosts has passed - usually, this is the first half of June.

For powerful bushes that do not tolerate close proximity, the optimal planting pattern is 40x50 cm, but no more than three roots per square meter.

De Barao red is grown in seedlings. Sowing seeds and caring for seedlings are carried out using classical methods, which are no different from growing other tomato varieties. Young plants are planted in a permanent place after 2-2.5 months. Tomato differs in shade tolerance, but does not tolerate constant darkening. The soil must be fertile, otherwise the variety will not be able to produce the harvest it is capable of. Acidified soils are deoxidized to a neutral level with the help of bone and dolomite flour, lime, gypsum. Dense loamy soils must be made looser, more breathable, otherwise the soil will have to be loosened almost daily in order to provide the roots with oxygen.

Powerful bushes that do not have restrictions in growth need strong supports that can support the weight of the plant itself and heavy brushes with pouring fruits. A wire trellis is ideal in this case. If it is not possible to organize it, then strong stakes installed in the hole simultaneously with the planting of seedlings help out. Further care consists in the obligatory formation of a bush (1-2 stems), constant pinching and tying as it grows. Moderate, but timely watering is needed, as well as top dressing, loosening, hilling, sanitary preventive treatments. An indeterminate variety requires pinching of the growing point - usually it is stopped when it reaches two meters in height. In the greenhouse, it is imperative to monitor the humidity level - the optimal indicators are 50-55%. The lower leaves are cut off after the ovary has formed; during the filling, foliage is reduced to a minimum. This provides good ventilation, and allows the tomato to direct all its forces towards pouring the fruit.

De Barao red is characterized by excellent, although not one hundred percent, resistance to late blight. It all depends on compliance with the requirements of agricultural technology. May suffer from diseases such as:

• top rot;

• bacterial spotting;

• alternaria and cladosporia;

• tobacco mosaic virus (TMV);

• true and downy mildew.

In addition, like any other variety or hybrid, De Barao red is not able to oppose anything to aggressive pests:

• whitefly, dangerous in greenhouses;

• May and Colorado beetles;

• nematode and bear;

• thrips;

• aphids.

It is extremely important to prevent all these manifestations, and preventive treatments with insecticides and fungicides will help in this.

The variety copes well with weather troubles - drought and rainy periods, daily temperature drops and cold snaps.

De Barao red, like the rest of its varieties, is grown throughout Russia and neighboring countries, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and other countries. The southern regions - Astrakhan, Krasnodar Territories, Crimea and the middle strip allow the variety to grow and bear fruit successfully in the open field. Regions with a more severe climate (Siberia, the Urals, the Far East) do not have the opportunity to provide the plant with the necessary amount of SAT, so gardeners and gardeners plant it in greenhouses.