- Authors: HM. Clause S.A.
- Year of approval: 2011
- Name synonyms: Fenda
- Category: hybrid
- Growth type: indeterminate
- Appointment: fresh consumption
- Ripening period: early
- Ripening time, days: 85-95
- Growing conditions: for open ground, for film greenhouses
- Transportability: high
Tall tomato Fenda (Fenda) bred for growing in greenhouses or open ground, refers to hybrids, early, unpretentious. Gardeners and gardeners are pleased with their productivity. Large pink fruits with a great tomato aroma, sweet taste. The tomato is resistant to bacterial and viral diseases, to adverse weather conditions.
Breeding history
Fend's hybrid is provided by the HM breeding group. Clause S. A. (France). Grown in biotechnology laboratories of an agricultural cooperative and approved for use in 2011.
Description of the variety
Tomato belongs to indeterminate varieties, early ripening, for full ripening it needs up to 95 days. Regions with warm climates are better suited to fruiting outdoors. Like any indeterminate tall variety, the tomato needs care in shaping and pinching. The bush is strong, well-developed, with a thick stem, with medium green leaves. Fruiting from late June to August inclusive, tomatoes ripen gradually, have a high rate of marketability.
The main qualities of the fruit
Fend's tomato is large-fruited. Pink, rounded, slightly ribbed fruits reach a mass of 200-500 grams. This result also depends on the way the bush is formed. They are suitable for various dishes in cooking, for canning at home, making sauces, ketchups, juices. Tomatoes of a variety with a dense skin and sugary pulp, amenable to salting, do not crack, have a high degree of storage and transportability.
Taste characteristics
Fend's aromatic tomatoes have a high sugar content, respectively, a sweet taste with a slight sourness. A true salad variety with a smooth, dense skin.
When tomatoes are eaten raw, the taste is most felt, vitamins and microelements are preserved.
Ripening and fruiting
Early hybrid. You can enjoy pink tomatoes outdoors from late June to August. Fruiting in a greenhouse will last much longer. 5-6 tomatoes are ripened in a brush. Up to 10 brushes are formed on the trunk.
Yield
The yield of tomato per square meter is high - more than 25 kilograms.
The timing of planting seedlings and planting in the ground
The tomato is grown in seedlings. The seeds of the Fend hybrid are sown until mid-March with increased daylight, 55-60 days before planting in open ground. For a greenhouse, sowing seeds is done 2 weeks earlier in the same way as planting plants. They are transferred to open ground in early May, or depending on the weather, day and night temperatures of the soil, air.
Growing tomato seedlings is an extremely important process, because it largely depends on whether the gardener will be able to harvest at all. All aspects must be taken into account, from seedbed preparation to planting in the ground.
Landing scheme
Seedling Fend is erect, high. It is planted in a prepared place according to the scheme of 50x40 cm with a density of 4 plants per square meter. This scheme is favorable for enhanced nutrition and airing of all bushes.
Comfortable conditions for disembarking in open ground at an average temperature of at least + 17 ° C day and night.
Growing and care
The Fenda tomato is formed with one stem. The height of a powerful bush can reach 2 meters, a plant with a strong root system. He needs a support garter. On the brushes, intermediate inflorescences appear with the first inflorescence on the 5th leaf. During flowering and fruiting, it is watered with heated in the sun or rainwater, drip irrigation is allowed. The first harvest is harvested from day 85.
A plant needs different micronutrients at each stage of growth. All fertilizers can be divided into two groups: mineral and organic. Folk remedies are often used: iodine, yeast, bird droppings, eggshells.
It is important to observe the rate and period of feeding. This also applies to folk remedies and organic fertilizers.
Disease and pest resistance
Since the Fenda tomato is a hybrid, it is resistant to the main viruses and bacteria: late blight, cladosporiosis (brown spot), fusarium (wilting of the lower leaves), tomato virus? mosaics (discoloration of leaves, fruits, their spotting), verticillosis (twisting and yellowing of leaves, root rot). Preventive treatments are possible.
From flies, the Colorado potato beetle, you need to fight with appropriate drugs.
Resistant to adverse weather conditions
The tomato is stress-resistant to various temperature extremes. According to gardeners, it adapts well and recovers after extreme weather conditions. Only the beginning of picking tomatoes depends on the place of growth, its climate, and the area for growing.
Growing regions
Tomato Fenda is grown in regions of Russia with a warm climate, both in the open field and in greenhouses. In the northern regions, it is recommended to cultivate the hybrid indoors, in greenhouses, greenhouses, and on balconies.