- Authors: Chelyabinsk breeding station, LLC "SSPK Agrofirma MARS"
- Category: hybrid
- Appointment: fresh consumption, for pickling and preserving
- Ripening period: ultra early
- Growing conditions: for film greenhouses, for greenhouses, pot crops
- Bush size: tall
- Bush height, cm: 200
- Ripe fruit color: Red
- Yield: 6-8 kg / m²
- Fruit weight, g: 10-20
Tomato variety Candy tree is hybrid. It is considered to be ultra-early maturing. During ripening, the bushes look unusually beautiful, because the whole plant is strewn with small and smooth fruits with bright saturated colors.
Description of the variety
This variety is vigorous. The height of healthy mature shrubs reaches up to two meters. The variety will be quite suitable for growing in greenhouse structures, as well as on balconies and verandas.
The main qualities of the fruit
Ripe fruits have a bright red color and the size of cherry tomatoes. The mass of one vegetable reaches about 10-20 grams. In one cluster on a bush there can be from 30 to 50 small ripe fruits.
The flesh of vegetables is very tender. Ripe tomatoes boast excellent keeping quality, so they can be stored for a long time after harvesting.
Taste characteristics
The taste of these tomatoes is rather sweet, similar to caramel.
Ripening and fruiting
The candy tree belongs to the ultra-early varieties. It will be possible to harvest a ripe crop already in July-August.
Yield
This type allows you to get a full-fledged good collection. About 6-8 kg of berries can be harvested from 1 m2.
The timing of planting seedlings and planting in the ground
Sowing seeds should be done in March or early April. In this case, disembarkation in open soil is carried out already in the last days of April or in the first of May.
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
Place the vegetation according to the scheme 50x70 centimeters.
Growing and care
Seedlings are grown in plastic containers or small containers specially designed for this. Ground mixed with peat is poured there; you can supplement it with other nutrients. The mass should be slightly moist.
On the surface of the earth, grooves are made into which the seed is laid. It will need to be deepened a little, just a few millimeters. In this form, all these plastic containers are removed to a dry place, while the temperature should not be lower than room temperature.
When 2 or 3 leaves appear, the seedlings begin to be transplanted to a permanent place. Most often, this variety of tomatoes is planted in greenhouses and hotbeds. For each plant, a planting pit is formed, into which nutritious dressings are preliminarily added.After planting, the soil is abundantly moistened.
This variety will need regular watering. Moreover, it is better to make them with warm water to avoid the appearance of a black leg. The variety is very difficult to tolerate stagnant moisture.
The optimum temperature for growing this variety of tomatoes is at least 20 degrees Celsius. The bushes will need to be regularly sprayed with special biological agents to prevent the appearance of harmful organisms.
We must not forget about feeding. They are used 4-5 times per season. In this case, mineral fertilizers can be used: they feed the earth, and also contribute to the active growth of plants. Such compositions can be either simple or combined. The latter contain a whole complex of useful microelements at once.
Various organic feedings are also used, for example, ash, humus. You can prepare the composition at home. Often, gardeners make tinctures with yeast, eggshell powder.
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
The candy tree is highly resistant to diseases and pests. Plants can sometimes still be affected by slugs. When such organisms appear, they must be collected by hand and the vegetation processed. For this, both ready-made biological preparations and medicinal compositions prepared at home are used. The treatment is carried out, as a rule, by spraying.
Review overview
Vegetable growers have left positive feedback on this tomato variety. Some of them noted that the variety has a high yield.The harvest is quite enough for the preparation of various preparations, and for fresh consumption.
It was also said that ripe fruits have excellent taste characteristics, a pleasant light aroma. Plants are considered absolutely unpretentious to care for; many gardeners grow crops right on the balconies.
