- Authors: Alekseev Y.B. (LLC "Semko-Junior")
- Year of approval: 2020
- Category: hybrid
- Growth type: indeterminate
- Appointment: fresh consumption
- Ripening period: early
- Ripening time, days: 100-105
- Growing conditions: for film greenhouses, for greenhouses
- Marketability: high
- Bush size: tall
Hybrid tomato Pink Hype with the original name is intended for growing in greenhouses and belongs to the early. Gardeners and gardeners from different regions can also enjoy tomato outdoors. Pleases with its productivity, beautiful pink heart-shaped fruits, tomato aroma, sweet taste. The tomato is resistant to adverse weather conditions, viral and bacterial diseases.
Breeding history
The tomato was bred by breeders of Semko-Junior LLC in 2020, and is successfully grown throughout Russia.
Description of the variety
The Pink Hype hybrid belongs to indeterminate early maturing varieties. It takes 100-105 days to fully mature. Mainly grown in greenhouses. In regions with a warm climate, it feels great outdoors. The bush requires shaping and pinching. The variety is tall, with small green leaves of medium length, strongly dissected, growing downward at an angle, leaves with noticeable pubescence. Fruiting from July to September, slightly ribbed tomatoes ripen gradually, have a high marketability.
The main qualities of the fruit
Pink heart-shaped tomatoes are cream-like in shape, weighing 130-155 grams. Ideal for raw cooking, canning whole, juices, sauces. Fruits with smooth skin, dense and fleshy pulp, good in salting (dry matter reaches 6%). These qualities allow them to be stored or transported longer than others.
Taste characteristics
Very aromatic and beautiful pink Hype tomatoes have a sweetish taste (sugar is 4%). Sourness is felt in the taste. The tomato belongs to salad varieties, has a smooth, not dense skin.
Eating tomatoes raw, without cooking, tastes best of summer.
Ripening and fruiting
Early Pink Hype hybrid. Gives you the opportunity to enjoy pink, with a pointed "nose", tomatoes in July-August. Fruiting is possible until September in the open field and much longer in the greenhouse. Ripe 4-6 tomatoes in a bunch. It is formed after 7 or 8 sheets.
Yield
The tomato is high-yielding. You can get 19.3-20.4 kilograms of tomatoes per square meter.
The timing of planting seedlings and planting in the ground
For seedlings, tomato is sown in the usual way until March 15, 55-60 days before planting in the soil. For the greenhouse, work begins 2 weeks earlier. We plant plants in open ground in early May. It all depends on the air temperature of the growing region. Seedlings of an indeterminate variety are more elongated, erect.
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
Seedlings are planted according to the scheme 50x50 cm, with a density of 4-5 plants per square meter. With this growth pattern, each bush will receive the required dose of feeding and lighting.
Seedlings take root well when the air temperature during the day and at night is at least + 15 ° C.
Growing and care
Pink Hype tomato bush is formed with one stem. Its height can reach over 2.5 meters. Since the hybrid is tall, it needs support and a garter. Simple inflorescences appear on the brushes, and later tomatoes with a stalk with an articulation.
Watering is desirable with water heated in the sun or in a greenhouse in the usual way.
The first crop is harvested on days 100 or 105.
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
A feature of the Pink Hype hybrid is immunity to bacterial diseases, the tomato virus? mosaics, when the leaves and fruits become discolored or become spotty, cladosporium, Fusarium, when the lower leaves fade and turn yellow. The dense pubescence of the leaves and stem makes it difficult for the whitefly, small winged bugs, to appear.
As for the Colorado potato beetle, in the fight against it, the bushes are treated with an appropriate preparation.
Resistant to adverse weather conditions
The early tomato is heat-resistant, resistant to high temperatures and drought.
According to gardeners, it adapts well to temperature changes, in extreme external weather conditions. The ripening and the beginning of the harvest depends on the climate, the place of cultivation.
Growing regions
Tomato Pink Hype is adapted to climatic conditions from the Central to the Far East regions. All of them are available for growing it. Provided that the hybrid is cultivated in a greenhouse, there are no restrictions.