More and more original varieties of tomatoes are becoming registered in the beds of our farmers: black and white, purple and blue. Huge, like watermelons and small, like peas.
The Brad's Black Heart tomato variety is bred in California (USA) by the well-known breeder Brad Gates at the beginning of the two thousandth. With all the external unusualness, the variety successfully takes root in the Russian open spaces.
Black Heart Breda Tomato: variety description
Indeterminate, tall variety. In these varieties, growth does not stop when you deploy a floral brush on the central top of the bush.
Mid-season, the fruits ripen on 90-130 days after germination of seedlings. It tolerates temperature drops, unpretentious. The fruits are tied and develop until the end of the growing season. Well ripen after removal from the bush, without losing taste.
The bush is powerful, slim, reaches a height of 180 cm. The foliage is drooping. With proper agrotechnology, fruits are formed on each tier. Tied brush of 6 or more fruits.
The variety is not a hybrid, the fruit can be left on the seeds.
Specifications
Fruits are regular heart-shaped, but can be round or elongated. They have a distinctive maroon-black color with purple hues. Can reach a weight of more than a kilogram.
Fruits are large, fleshy, dense. They have a peculiar taste: sweet, with a fruity exotic touch, fragrant, delicate. Good for eating fresh, making juices and sauces. It is proved that the "black" tomatoes are an aphrodisiac and fully justify the old name "apple of love".
Grown in open field and greenhouses. Recommended for zoning in the south and in central Russia, but has successfully established itself in the Urals and Siberia. Productivity is high. In the open ground gives up to 5-20 kg from a bush, with greenhouse cultivation, the yield may be higher. High disease resistance. Shows good immunity to late blight fungi.
A photo
Below are photos of the black heart of Breda tomato
Features of growing
Demands not heavy, friable, nutritious soil. Watering is carried out regularly, in small doses with warm water or drip irrigation. Seedlings are planted from mid-February to early March. Seeds are buried in the soil to a depth of about 3 cm. If the seeds are theirs, they are treated with a solution of potassium permanganate, washed with water.
After the appearance of two true leaves seedlings dive. Several times carry out complex feeding, hardening. They are planted in warm greenhouses since the beginning of April, in cold (without heating) in the beginning or in the middle of May. In open ground from mid-May to early June. It is recommended to plant no more than 2-3 plants per square meter, although if one shrub is formed into one stem, planting density can be increased.
When feeding, prefer organic fertilizers. Immediately after the landing, plants are diluted slurry. If there is a shortage of sun, it is recommended to deposit ash For better growth, it is worth preparing the ground in the fall by adding manure to it. The procedure is repeated before planting seedlings by adding superphosphate and potassium chloride to manure.
Garter plants desirable, although the bush well holds the weight of the fruit. As necessary, leaves are removed for better ventilation of the bush, which reduces the risk of fungal diseases, increases the access of light to the fruit.
Concerning pasynkovaya recommendations are different:
- Remove all stepchildren between leaves, except for the top. To form a bush in one stem. The advantage of this method is an increase in the number of bushes in a limited area. The downside is that a high greenhouse is required.
- Leave the stepson under the first inflorescence, fasten it, pinch after the formation of one or two flowering brushes. Plus - the development of fruits on the lower tiers, the formation of a lower bush. Minus - weight reduction, additional garter, the need to pinch an additional stem.
- Form several stems. Leave stepchildren under 1-2-3 inflorescence. The remaining stepchildren should be removed 1-2 times a week until they have grown to 5-7 cm. This allows you to control the number of fruits for more successful ripening and to avoid “shredding” the harvest. Experienced gardeners usually leave 5-7 inflorescences on the stem. The smaller the brushes on the trunk, the larger the tomatoes.
- Pinch the crown of the first trunk after the formation of 5-7 brushes. The top of the second is removed after the appearance of the first brush.
The variety Black Heart Breda easily formed, does not require complex farming techniques. Unlike most indeterminant varieties, it feels good when grown in 3-4 stalks. Unpretentious and hardy, resistant to heat, cold snaps, diseases.
On one bush can develop tomatoes of different mass and shape. It differs only in its inherent taste and aroma, gigantic size of the fruit, beautiful maroon-black-violet color.
