Lovers of tasty and unusual tomatoes will surely like the Pink Stella variety. Graceful pepper tomatoes are good for salads or canning, for the pleasant taste they are very fond of children.
Compact bushes will not take up much space in the garden and will not require the construction of greenhouses. Read the detailed description of the variety in our article.
We will also introduce you to the main characteristics and characteristics of cultivation, susceptibility to diseases and damage by pests.
Pink Stella Tomato: variety description
Grade name | Pink stella |
general description | Mid-season determinant variety |
Originator | Russia |
Ripening | about 100 days |
The form | Elongated-pepper-shaped, with a rounded tip and mild ribbing |
Colour | Raspberry pink |
Average tomato mass | 200 grams |
Application | Salad variety |
Yield varieties | 3 kg from a bush |
Features of growing | Agrotechnika standard |
Disease resistance | Good disease resistance |
The tomato variety Pink Stella was bred by Russian breeders, zoned for areas with warm and temperate climates.
It is recommended for cultivation in an open ground and film shelters. The yield is good, the collected fruits are stored for a long time, transportation is possible. This is a high-yielding medium early variety.
Bush determinant, compact, with a moderate formation of green mass. The height of the bush does not exceed 50 cm. The fruits ripen with brushes of 6-7 pieces. The first tomatoes can be collected in the middle of summer.
The main advantages of the variety are:
- beautiful and tasty fruits;
- good yield;
- compact bush saves space on the garden;
- tolerance to adverse weather conditions;
- collected tomatoes are well kept.
Deficiencies in the variety Pink Stella not seen.
You can see the yield of this and other varieties in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Stella | 3 kg from a bush |
Lazy man | 15 kg per square meter |
Summer resident | 4 kg from a bush |
Doll | 8-9 kg per square meter |
Fat jack | 5-6 kg from a bush |
Andromeda | 12-20 kg per square meter |
Honey Heart | 8.5 kg per square meter |
Pink Lady | 25 kg per square meter |
Lady shedi | 7.5 kg per square meter |
Gulliver | 7 kg per square meter |
Bella Rosa | 5-7 kg per square meter |
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Specifications
Characteristics of the Pink Stella tomato fruit:
- Fruits of medium size, weighing up to 200 g.
- The form is very beautiful, oblong-percyoid, with a rounded tip and a slightly pronounced ribbing at the stem.
- Color saturated, monophonic, crimson-pink.
- The thin, but rather dense thin skin protects fruits from cracking.
- The flesh is juicy, fleshy, low seed, sugary on the fault.
- The taste is very pleasant, sweet with light fruit notes, without excess acid.
- A high percentage of sugar makes the fruit suitable for baby food.
Fruits are salad, they are delicious fresh, suitable for cooking soups, sauces, mashed potatoes. Ripe fruit makes a delicious juice that you can drink freshly squeezed or canned.
A photo
Further you can familiarize yourself with the fruits of the “Pink Stella” variety tomato in the photo:
Features of growing
Seeds are sown on seedlings in the second half of March. Processing seed is not required, if desired, the seeds can be for 10-12 hours, pour growth factor.
The soil is composed of a mixture of garden soil with humus and a small portion of washed river sand. Seeds are sown with a depth of 2 cm, lightly sprinkled with peat, sprayed with water, covered with a film. For germination need a temperature of about 25 degrees.
Watering moderate, from a watering can or spray.
After unfolding the first pair of these leaves, the seedlings swoop down into separate pots and feed them with complex liquid fertilizer. 30 days after sowing, young tomatoes need to be hardened, this will prepare them for life in the open field. Seedlings carried out into the open air, first for several hours, and then for the whole day.
Transplantation into the ground begins in the second half of May and early June. The earth should warm up completely. Before planting, the soil is mixed with humus, per 1 sq. M. m can accommodate 4-5 plants. Water them as the topsoil dries. It is not necessary to form a shrub, but the lower leaves can be removed for better ventilation and stimulate the formation of ovaries.
Tomatoes are sensitive to dressing. Recommended mineral complex fertilizers, they can be alternated with organic: bred mullein or bird droppings. During the summer, the plants are fed at least 4 times.
Pests and diseases
The variety is sufficiently resistant to the main diseases of the nightshade, but for greater security, it is necessary to carry out preventive measures.
Before planting, the soil is spilled with a solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulphate.
Frequent loosening of the soil with moderate watering saves from gray or measles rot.
Having found the first signs of late blight, it is necessary to destroy the affected parts of the plants, and then treat the plants with copper preparations.
Industrial insecticides will help to get rid of thrips, whitefly or spider mites. Processing of plantings is carried out 2-3 times with an interval of 3 days, until the complete disappearance of pests.
You can destroy the aphids with a warm solution of soap, and from the bare slugs helps ammonia.
Pink Stella - a great variety for novice gardeners. The plant quietly tolerates errors in agricultural technology, pleases with good yield and feels great in the open field.
And in the table below you will find links to articles about tomatoes of the most different ripening terms that may be useful to you:
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Moscow stars | Tsar Peter | One hundred poods |
Room surprise | Alpatieva 905 a | Orange Giant |
Aurora F1 | F1 favorite | Sugar Giant |
F1 Severenok | A La Fa F1 | Rosalisa F1 |
Katyusha | Right size | Um Champion |
Labrador | Dimensionless | F1 Sultan |