- Category: hybrid
- Growth type: indeterminate
- Appointment: fresh consumption
- Ripening period: mid-season
- Ripening time, days: 105-115
- Growing conditions: for open ground, for greenhouses
- Marketability: good
- Transportability: good
- Bush height, cm: 170-200
- Bush characteristic: compact
Good, tasty tomatoes can be grown on their own in a vegetable garden or in a greenhouse. Pink Beef is one of those hybrids that even a beginner can easily handle.
Description of the variety
The indeterminate plant has fruits that are delicious fresh. This variety gives a stable harvest not only in the greenhouse, but also in the open field.
The bushes can stretch up to 2 meters in height, but remain compact, with little foliage.
The main qualities of the fruit
Pink Beef fruits are distinguished by excellent transportability and good marketability. They are deep pink in color, rather large, up to 300 grams.
On the main stem, up to 7 brushes are formed, each with up to 7 tomatoes with dense, fleshy pulp. After harvesting, the fruits of this variety can lie in the warehouse for up to 2 weeks.
Taste characteristics
Pink Beef tomatoes are sweet.
Ripening and fruiting
A mid-season variety can be harvested after 105-115 days. The duration of the collection is from July to September.
Yield
The yield is estimated by the following figures: over 25 kg / m2 or up to 10-11 kg per plant.
The timing of planting seedlings and planting in the ground
Mid-March is the time for sowing seeds, from mid-May to June, young bushes can already be transferred to the ground.
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
Pink Beef is planted with 2-3 bushes per square meter. The scheme used is 70 x 45 cm.
Growing and care
The described variety, since it is of unlimited growth, requires both pinching and a garter. If you are using seedlings, then this should be done after they are well rooted and begin to grow. It's a little different with seedlings, they begin to tie them up when the first 5-6 leaves appear.
Pegs should be driven into the ground from the north side, the depth is up to half a meter, and no closer than 10 cm from the base of the bush. The height of the pegs is calculated from the expected growth of the bush (on average 1-1.5 m).
Some gardeners use a method using a wire stretched along a row, for this, plants from adjacent rows are tilted towards each other. This method also provides additional shade for the roots and aids in moisture retention.
Tomatoes are huddled 2-3 times during the entire growing period, but you need to remove the weeds constantly, from the very beginning of planting until the last harvest.
Forming shrubs and removing stepchildren is an integral part of proper care for Pink Beef tomatoes. Leave 1 to 2 stems.
In order to form a bush with one stem, it is necessary to remove the stepchildren that form in the axils of the leaves, preventing them from germinating up to 2 cm.The first step is to pluck the shoots growing under the brushes, if you leave them, then the bush can lose flowers and fragile ovaries.
A two-stem bush is formed in a similar way, leaving a lateral shoot near the first brush.
It is necessary to correctly remove the stepsons by breaking them, with due care, while it is necessary to pull not towards yourself, but to the side. If you overlooked and the stepsons grew too big, it is better to cut them off with garden shears or a knife.
If the summer turned out to be rainy and relatively cool, then, in addition to the above, it will be useful to pluck some of the shoots from the Pink Beef, as well as all the lower leaves. This will help the bush to warm up better and faster and provide fresh air circulation.
Closer to mid-August, it is advised to pinch the upper part of fruiting shoots, remove flower brushes that do not have an ovary - this will allow ripening fruits to receive more nutrition and ripen faster.
In greenhouse conditions, care consists of several basic conditions:
- maintaining a constant and optimal temperature;
- selection and compliance with the irrigation system;
- top dressing;
- pruning.
For the described variety, the optimum temperature in greenhouse conditions is 23-26 ° C.
Before planting Pink Beef seedlings in open ground, warm up the beds - so the bushes will begin to grow faster and take root better. The easiest way to do this is to cover the soil with black sheeting or spunbond.
To properly care for seedlings of tomatoes of this variety, follow a few rules.
- Light. For this purpose, southern windows, not shaded, are suitable. If there is not enough light, you will have to do artificial lighting.
- Humidity. It is necessary to regularly moisten the ripening seedlings, spray it a couple of times a day, and even better - use a special device - a humidifier.
- Temperature. For seedlings of Pink Beef tomatoes, a difference between day and night temperatures within the following ranges is suitable: during the day - 18-25 ° C, at night - 12-15 ° C.
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 Pink Beef variety is resistant to fruit cracking. In addition, it has good immunity against tomato bronzing virus and yellow foliage curl.
Among other things, this tomato is resistant to:
- cladosporium disease;
- verticillosis;
- tobacco mosaic virus;
- fusarium wilting.
Resistant to adverse weather conditions
Tomato Pink Beef is cold and heat resistant.
