- Category: grade
- Growth type: indeterminate
- Appointment: fresh consumption
- Ripening period: late ripening
- Ripening time, days: 120
- Growing conditions: for open ground, for greenhouses
- Transportability: Yes
- Bush size: tall
- Bush height, cm: up to 200
- Foliage: medium
Sprint Timer is a variety whose main characteristic is its giant fruits. He is rightfully considered a leader in both large-fruited and yield.
Description of the variety
The indeterminate variety is a tall vine. The culture is grown both in greenhouses and in open beds. Inside the greenhouse, the bushes can reach two meters, in the air they will be much lower. The foliage on the bushes is medium, it is painted in a light green tone.
The main qualities of the fruit
The grandiose size of the fruits of the described culture often reaches the kilogram mark. True, to achieve this, bushes with ovaries are normalized. On average, the weight is also rather big, 300-500 grams. Heart-shaped, with small ribs. When ripe, the fruit will have a bright red hue. The color of the flesh is usually dark red, even brighter than the skin. There are many seed chambers located along the perimeter, but they are poorly visible.
Taste characteristics
The pulp of a varietal tomato is juicy, fleshy, has a sweet taste. It is better to eat tomatoes fresh from the garden.
Ripening and fruiting
Tomato Sprint Timer refers to late ripening. However, some describe it as mid-season. Ripens 120 days after the first shoots appear.
Yield
Sprint Timer is considered to be a fairly high-yielding variety. Up to 16 kilograms of large fruits can be removed from one square.
The timing of planting seedlings and planting in the ground
First of all, you need to plant seeds for seedlings. The time allotted for its cultivation is 55-60 days. The specific dates of planting in each case are individual, differ depending on the region and climatic conditions. But most often, tomatoes are planted in a permanent place in 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
The bushes should be planted according to a certain pattern: 40 cm between shoots, 50 cm in the aisle. The optimal plant density per 1 m2 of open beds is no more than 4 bushes.
Growing and care
Sprint Timer is a tomato variety that is grown using the basic rules that apply to many other tomato varieties. Sowing seed, caring for planted seedlings and growing bushes will be standard. It is important to tie up varietal tomatoes. Sprint timer variety is grown in 1-2 stems. Transplanting to a permanent place is advised to be carried out in the rain or simply in cloudy weather. In sunny weather it is necessary to postpone this procedure for the evening.
Further, the culture must be irrigated quite regularly, then loosened the ground, weed weeds, and feed them with mineral fertilizers.
Considering that the Sprint timer variety belongs to late-ripening subspecies, it may be affected by late blight. Fungicides should be used to fight this infection.
A place for planting varietal tomatoes is selected where the soil is moisture-holding and good aeration. Heavy and clayey soil warms up slowly and is also prone to compaction. In addition, groundwater located close to the roots will negatively affect the culture.
Sprint timer feels comfortable in sufficient sunlight. It is better if in the open ground the beds are located on the southern slope, where the ground warms up quickly and well. In addition, in such places, the likelihood of a return of spring frosts is extremely small.
Summing up, we can say that the main care of the described culture includes traditional activities such as loosening, watering, weeding, feeding, tying to supports, mulching.
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
Variety Sprint timer rather weakly resists late blight. Therefore, it is important to regularly expose the culture to preventive treatments with such fungicides as Ridomil, Ordan, Tatu.
And after the harvest ripens, the plantings are sprayed with the antifungal drug "Trichopol" (20 tablets are diluted in 10 liters of water).
Growing regions
Growing tomatoes Sprint timer is recommended mainly in the southern regions of Russia.
