Tomato Bear Blood

There are many universal varieties of tomatoes on the market today, among them Bear's Blood stands out - a tomato with large fruits and fleshy pulp.

This plant can be grown not only in the area under the sun, but also in greenhouses. The bushes grow medium in size and are not more than a meter in height. The foliage is green.

Tomatoes can be eaten fresh or made into ketchup, tomato paste, and even juice.

Green fruits turn red when ripe. Very large, weighing up to 300 grams. Their flesh is dense.

Bear's blood is prized for its aroma and good taste.

This variety is early, the fruits are harvested within a maximum of 115 days from the moment the seeds are planted in the ground. The plant bears fruit for a long time, harvesting begins in July and ends in September.

The yield level is 8 kg / sq. m

Early or mid-March is the time to plant seeds. In mid-May, young bushes can be transferred to open ground. Bear's blood is planted in the greenhouse when the seedlings are 45 to 55 days old.

With this variety, a planting density of 4-5 bushes per square meter is applied. Scheme 60x50 cm.

The list of measures for the care of the described variety necessarily includes pinching and the formation of bushes. When forming, leave from one to two stems.

Bushes need to be tied up, otherwise they will collapse at the stage of fruit pouring. You can use stakes or trellises.

Sowing Bear Blood seeds is carried out in dive boxes. Drainage is arranged at the bottom, a layer of light deciduous and humus earth mixed with sand is poured on top. Seeds are sown, taking into account the growing period. Before sowing, they are soaked in a solution of potassium permanganate to prevent the development of fungal diseases. Then they are dried and evenly distributed over the area of ​​the container. The seed will need to be lightly sprinkled with a layer of earth and covered with glass or foil so that the topsoil does not dry out.

Watering is carried out through a sieve, daily wipe or turn the glass until shoots appear. When shoots appear, it is removed so that the plants do not stretch excessively.

The temperature in the greenhouse is lowered by 3-5 degrees, and airing is periodically done. Care after emergence consists in timely watering, weeding. During this period, you should provide sufficient lighting and adhere to the optimal temperature regime day and night.

The soil in the greenhouse is well moistened with water to a depth of 10-15 cm. Healthy, without mechanical damage, normally developed seedlings of a bear's blood tomato are selected for planting.

After planting is completed, the plants are tied with twine to a wire, which is pulled along each row. Then the soil between the rows is loosened and leveled with a rake. As the top of the tomato grows, Bear's blood is twisted around the twine, at the same time tearing off the stepchildren that form in the leaf axils. It is advisable to do this before they become longer than 5-7 cm. Plants form 1-2 stems.

For planting tomato seedlings, Bear's Blood is dug up the soil in the greenhouse to a depth of 25-30 cm, applying fertilizers. If the previous crop was cucumbers, then instead of compost, wood shavings or crushed peat are introduced.

Replacement of soil in shelving greenhouses is carried out every 2 years, and in ground greenhouses - annually, renewing a layer of 5-10 cm.

With a trellis height of about 2 m, the plant forms 8-9 brushes, after which the growth point is pinched from them.

It is necessary to monitor the temperature in the greenhouse. The air should not be waterlogged and not dry (humidity 70-80%) so that the flowers are well pollinated, but diseases do not develop.

Watering is carried out as the soil dries up, it should not be allowed to dry out strongly, since it leads to the fall of flowers and ovary.

From the moment the fruits ripen, the lower leaves are gradually cut off on the first brush, first those that have turned yellow, and then green. This procedure improves air exchange, increases illumination in the ground area, facilitates watering and harvesting. As a result, the fruits are less affected by diseases, especially gray rot.

Tearing off the leaves, make sure that at least 14-16 healthy shoots remain on the bear's blood tomato.

During the autumn-winter planting during the growing season, tomatoes are rarely watered, fertilizing is also rarely carried out, mainly phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are applied.

Bear Blood Tomatoes thrive on loose neutral and slightly acidic soils (pH = 5.5-7.1), have a positive reaction to liming if the pH is <5.5.

Before flowering, tomatoes of this variety must be provided primarily with potassium and phosphorus, subsequently, for active leaf growth, enhanced nitrogen nutrition should be given, and at the initial stage of fruit formation, the potassium content in the soil should be increased again.

The need for nitrogen increases with the transition from the beginning of the growing season to flowering, then decreases to the ripeness phase. However, it should be borne in mind that excessive nitrogen nutrition in the early period of fruit formation increases the growth of stepchildren and leads to "fattening", which delays fruiting and ripening of fruits.

Phosphorus plays an important role in the nutrition of tomato. Bear's blood. It has a positive effect on the development and growth of fruits if the plants are sufficiently provided with them at the initial stage of the growing season (from the emergence of seedlings to the formation of the sixth leaf).

The period from the beginning of setting the first fruits on a bear's blood tomato until the end of their ripening is critical, the plant needs potassium.

Tomatoes of this variety respond well to the introduction of both mineral and organic fertilizers. However, it should be borne in mind that in certain climatic zones this tomato reacts better to mineral additives.

Doses of mineral fertilizers for tomato bear's blood are determined depending on the content of nutrients in the soil, the moisture regime and the dose of organic fertilizing introduced earlier. If mineral mixtures are introduced together with humus, then their rate is reduced by 30-40%.

There is no resistance to pests and diseases, therefore, early treatment at the seedling stage with fungicides and insecticides is required.

Bear's blood is a variety that is heat- and cold-resistant, as well as shade-tolerant.

In a greenhouse, you can grow a rich harvest in any region of the country.