Tomato "pink giant" - a surprising plant

If you have a summer residence, then you are necessarily familiar with the talk that someone has grown up something "like that" ... And what, in fact, can surprise yourself and neighbors? Well, for example, a pumpkin of 40 kg or potatoes on a bucket from a bush, or ... yes, little if anything, there would be a desire. For example, is the biggest tomato - sounds? On the other hand, how much does it weigh, if "the biggest"? Estimate yourself: one such tomato is enough for a salad for a family of three or four people. Well, how much does such a tomato weigh? Whatever one may say, and not less than a kilogram pull. So it is - a fruit of up to one kilogram and more can give you a tomato "pink giant." Just imagine that this "tomato kilogram" hangs on the bush - there is something to see. And it's quite easy to grow it on your private plot. What does it take for a "table miracle" to grow on the site?

It is known that everything starts from the beginning. In various manuals for growing a tomato, both large and not very, the beginning is a good viable seedling. A good seedlings can only be obtained from good seeds. Seeds of the "pink giant" variety do not differ from their relatives by gigantism - they can be up to 200 pieces per gram. For winter storage and preparation for planting, the selected and dried seeds undergo several processing steps:

- disinfection in a solution of potassium permanganate;

- thermal hardening during storage;

- "bathing" in the growth stimulator solution before planting;

- vernalization for 2-3 days in the refrigerator;

- three-five days of quiet life on a cozy bed from nutritious soil, and here it is, the miracle of birth - the pinned-up seed!

Small and defenseless, it still does not know how handsome it will become very soon. Sprouted seeds are planted in pots with a nutrient medium and exposed to the sun. The temperature in the room with seedlings should be no higher than 16C, so that the plant does not reach up. After a week or two, they gradually increase it.

Before transplanting into the open ground seedlings grow to 25 centimeters in about 20-30 days. The tomato variety "pink giant" has a sturdy stalk at the base and is intended for planting both in greenhouses and in open ground. A feature of agricultural technology is that the plant requires a garter to the vertical support or trellis. The garter on the trellis is considered more correct - the fruits are heavy and the stem experiences great loads in windy weather. This tomato - a tall plant with a powerful crown, so caring for it requires quite a tangible effort.

Tomatoes "pink giant" are planted with a density of up to three plants per one square meter of the garden. To get well fruit bearing bushes, they must be pamphlets in time. Each inflorescence can have up to eight flowers, and there should not be more than four. Tomatoes "pink giant" - the plant is indeterminate, i.e. Can grow up unlimited - two-meter, and even more, the height for this tomato is common. That such did not happen, after appearance of an ovary at the necessary height, do prishlipku tops of a stalk.

Tomato "pink giant" is medium-resistant to diseases. Given the large mass of the plant, it is necessary to give him a good and varied fertilizing with mineral fertilizers. According to the terms of maturation tomato "pink giant" refers to the mid-ripening varieties. Fruits reach maturity in 110-115 days after germination. Their average mass is 200-300 g, the shape is rounded, flattened, the color is crimson-pink. Taste qualities are very high, and the flesh of the fetus from those about which they speak is "fleshy". The average yield from the bush reaches 2.5-3 kg.

If you managed to grow a beautiful tomato "pink giant" on your site, and you got a good harvest, and on some bushes hang kilogram tomatoes - you can be in a good way to envy. Invite your friends, and you will surely see someone, be stunned with amazement near the biggest, even only on this dacha, tomato.