Among gardeners and truck farmers, a new variety of tomatoes is gaining popularity, bearing the name of the fairy princess Rapunzel, famous for its luxurious hair.
Выведенный совсем недавно продукт английской Tomato selection Rapunzel is an indeterminate plant, ie, with unlimited growth of stems. Its scourge reaches an impressive length of 1.8-2.4 meters. This selection novelty became known only at the end of 2014, when it was first introduced to the audience of the American exhibition, where agricultural crops were tested for the characteristics declared by specialists. While it is very difficult to acquire the seeds of the tomato Rapunzel. Comments of ordinary truck farmers on this issue confirm the difficulties of such a purchase.
So, this tomato is unusual longfruit-bearing brushes, more precisely branches, on both sides of which there is a row of fruits. This is an early hybrid, the time of vegetation (ie, the period from germination of shoots to mass ripening of fruits) which takes only 75-80 days. The fruits are medium-sized, one-dimensional, dense and glossy, with a wonderful sweet taste. Tomatoes Rapunzel are suitable for cultivation in greenhouses, but the hybrid is successfully grown on balconies, in special containers. However, in this case it is necessary to control the growth of the weaves. The producers of the variety assure that it is possible to grow a new hybrid culture in all climatic zones, and hence, domestic gardeners of the most extreme latitudes will be able to cultivate this interesting plant.
Tomato variety Rapunzel is remarkably prolific.On each of the long brushes grows up to 40 fruits - small, elastic, rounded. A compact, neat arrangement of the fruit on the branch is another quality of the plant. Juicy sweet flesh has already been appreciated by gardeners who grow a new hybrid and have noticed a small number of chambers in tomatoes. Tomato Rapunzel as a salad variety is excellent for consumption in its raw form, but it is good for canning. It is impossible only for its long-term storage.
Tomato Rapunzel is very demanding. For the qualitative development of culture and the maximum yield of the crop, it is necessary:
• a lot of sunlight and heat;
• weakly acid reaction of the soil;
• mandatory support and timely gartering of the weaves as they grow;
• regular top dressing.
Breeders, whose product of research was the Rapunzel tomato, position it on the market as a culture with very high quality characteristics. So, these tomatoes have:
• enviable resistance to traditional diseases for solanaceous plants;
• Excellent fruit tie;
• good yield;
• A good level of transportability;
• Excellent taste.
Disadvantages, by the way, are very conditional, can serve as the impossibility of long-term storage of fruits, as well as notable, but hopefully temporary difficulties in acquiring seeds at the present time.
The yield of culture, as already mentioned,is very high. Gardeners note that Rapunzel is a culture with a long and thin stem, as well as a strongly developed root system of the rod type. Well branched subordinate roots grow rapidly in the horizontal plane, but not deep. Quality nutrition and sufficient watering stimulate the formation of additional roots.
Томаты Рапунцель, описание которых представлено в publications, very light and thermophilic. In addition, they are sensitive to excessive humidity in the greenhouse. Lack of light and waterlogging are the main enemies of culture, capable of nullifying all efforts of the gardener. Comfortable air temperature for successful development of the plant varies between 22-28 ˚С.
Basics of agrotechnics cultivation of tomatoes Rapunzel practically do not differ from any other kind of tomatoes. Let's recall the algorithm of the actions necessary for growing tomato:
• seedlings are carried out in March-April, the seeds are sown in a light loose soil;
• Seedlings are installed in improvised mini-greenhouses, which are opened by sprouting seedlings:
• after 3-4 weeks the seedlings dive, sitting on individual tanks;
• landing in a prepared greenhouse is carried out,when the threat of frost passes. As in different regions enough time for establishing acceptable weather, it is necessary to orientate the gardeners to the peculiarities of the territorial weather conditions.
And to maintain a normal feeding regimesensitive tomatoes Rapunzel. Ogorodnikov's reviews emphasize the obligatory introduction of quality organic materials for digging and planting, as well as the regular feeding of crops with a complex mineral fertilizer with microelements.
Since tomatoes are very high, the support andfixing stems they need. It is also necessary to form a bush in one or two lashes. Watering (strictly under the root) is carried out when the upper layer of the soil is dried.
Итак, селекционная новинка помидор Рапунцель в soon will appear in Russian manors and in dachas. Seed companies will open a massive sale of planting material, and it will certainly be an affordable product on both the foreign and domestic markets.
