Tomato Indigo Rose: variety description, cultivation, reviews

If you are an experimental gardener, then for suredrew attention to varieties of black tomatoes. We will analyze one of the most unusual and high-yielding - the tomato of Indigo Rose. Description of the variety, photos, features of planting and care, reviews of gardeners - more.

Violet (dark) tomatoes

The selection of tomatoes with dark skin takes itsbeginning in the sixties of the last century. Bulgarian scientists crossed wild varieties of tomatoes from Chile and the Galapagos Islands with local dark varieties (Black Prince). However, in those days the newly bred varieties were not widely spread.

In our own day, when the researchers determined,that the blue or violet color of such tomatoes is a sign of a large content of antioxinants in the vegetable, purple varieties are gaining more and more popularity. Tomato Indigo Rose (testimonials, his photo you will see later) is the darkest of them. In addition to it, the following blue tomatoes are popular:

• Primary color.
• Blue Gold.
• Blueberry.
• A dance with smurfs.
• The dark galaxy.
• Red coal.
• Strips of the past.
• P20 Blue.
• Blot.
• Blue-green zebra.
• Wild cherry.
• Amethyst.
• Amethyst Cherry Cream.
• Blue chocolate.
• Fiery Blue.
• Cherry Blueberry.
• The Blue Beauty.
• A real jewel.

In addition to excellent taste, dark fruit has the following useful properties:

1. Reducing the risk of vascular disease.
2. Counteract the formation of cancer cells.
3. Strengthening the walls of blood vessels.
4. Increased visual acuity.

Many botanists believe that the first tomatoes,imported to Europe, were just such a shade. They explain this by the fact that in the native land of the plant, in South America, most wild tomato varieties have fruits namely violet.

Description of Indigo Rose

Tomato Indigo Rose ("Indigo Rose") -mid-ripened universal variety. Fruits are suitable for use both in fresh form and for conservation. Tomatoes are sweet, fleshy, dense, smooth, dark purple, weighing up to 60 g. The best time to harvest - when the color of the fruit pours to a rich dark shade, will become soft to the touch. Since the tomato of Indigo Rose tastes not too sweet, it has a pleasant tart flavor, it is well suited for salads and frying.

Vegetational period of time from the momentemergence before maturation: 75 days. A medium sized shrub is up to 1 meter high. The plant is disease-resistant and high-yielding, open-type pollination, suitable for planting both in greenhouses and in beds.

Black tomatoes were bred in Oregon (USA), inlaboratory of Professor D. Myers. According to the scientist himself, Indigo Rose is the first improved grade of tomato containing anthocyanin. Since this is the darkest kind of tomato, then, respectively, the level of antioxidant in it is the highest. It has turned out as a result of crossing of violet tomatoes with habitual red grades. It is believed that the antioxidant contained in Indigo Rose, helps in the fight against obesity, diabetes, in general, improves the health of a person.

Features of cultivation and care

Tomato Indigo Rose - quite unpretentious plant, but the gardener needs to take note of some points:

1. After swelling of the soaked seeds, it is necessary to keep them in a strong solution of potassium permanganate until half an hour, then they are washed and dried.
2. Plant tomatoes in a soft warm substrate at a distance of 10 cm from each other in grooves depth of 1 cm. Cover the ground sifted through a sieve.
3. The first watering is from the spray gun, then you can use a regular watering can. Periodicity of watering - every day until the appearance of sprouts.
4. As the seedlings grow, two or three times the substrate must be poured into the aisles, and weak and painful sprouts must be removed.
5. To feed the tomato of Indigo Rose follows in the event that the seedlings by the day of transplantation are still not sufficiently strengthened.
6. Landing is carried out when there is no threat of frost on the soil. Between rows - from 70 to 100 cm, depending on the size of the bushes. In one row the plants are planted in 30-50 cm.
7. Try to protect tomatoes from high and low temperatures, timely watering, feeding, removing stepchildren. Do not forget to mulch the soil around the roots with needles or chips.

Tomato Indigo Rose: reviews

Among the advantages of the plant, gardeners note:

• power of the bush;
• yield - up to 15 tomatoes per brush;
• juiciness of the fetus;
• unusual coloring;
• pleasant taste.

Quite differently describe the tomato Indigo Rose reviews disappointed:

• Watery vegetables.
• Long ripening.
• A tall bush is inconvenient for leaving.
• Smaller tomatoes.

Indigo Rose is a novelty for Russiangardeners. However, a high-yielding and powerful plant with unusual black fruits, rich in useful antioxidants, has already become a successful experiment for many.