The Big Rainbow tomato will become a bright decoration not only for the dining table, but also for the garden bed. Tasty tomatoes are good in salads, pickles, and winter canning.
| Height | Landing location | Ripening time | Fruit color | Fruit size | Origin | Fruit shape |
| Tall | Greenhouse, Open ground | Mid-season | Bicolor | Large | Variety | Flat-round |
Description and characteristics of the variety
Big Rainbow is an indeterminate tomato with tall bushes. Shoots 1.7-1.9 m high need pinching and proper shaping.
Tomatoes ripen in an average time - 110-120 days from germination. The average weight is in the range of 500-800 g.
The fruits have a round shape and a colorful, rich coloring. There are blurry orange and yellow stripes on a scarlet background. The pulp at the break is sugary, juicy and meaty. The taste is sweet with sourness. There are few seed chambers - within 4-5.
Gardeners' opinion
Good afternoon! I recommend Taimyr variety tomatoes to residents of the North-West. The plant tolerates short, cool summers without a decrease in yield.
Kirill Petrov, 55 years old
Good day! I discovered Taimyr. Ultra-early ripening variety, resistant to weather changes and low air temperatures. Unpretentious and easy to care for. I didn’t find any cons for myself.
Good afternoon! I recommend Taimyr variety tomatoes to residents of the North-West. The plant tolerates short, cool summers without a decrease in yield.
Kirill Petrov, 55 years old
Good day! I discovered Taimyr. Ultra-early ripening variety, resistant to weather changes and low air temperatures. Unpretentious and easy to care for. I didn’t find any cons for myself.
Features of cultivation and storage
In early to mid-March, the seeds are planted for seedlings. Fertile soil with the addition of sand and compost is pre-treated with 1% potassium permanganate or spilled with boiling water.
Seeds can be treated with Kornevin for better germination. Planting depth is 1.5-2 cm.
How to care for seedlings:
- irrigate with warm water from a spray bottle;
- dive at the 2-leaf stage;
- hardened at 14-15 degrees for 1 week.
Feed with nutritious mineral solutions 10 days before and after picking.
The best varieties of tomatoes with pink fruits: photos and descriptions
Tomato varieties with pink fruits are very popular among vegetable growers. However, they have their supporters and opponents. By the way, in Europe such tomatoes are described as a breeding defect. But in Japan, on the contrary, only pink large-fruited tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are recognized. The pink-fruited tomato is held in high esteem in the Middle East; the market for pink-fruited tomatoes has also long been famous in the Asian part of Russia - in Altai and the Primorsky Territory. So how do they compare favorably and where do they fall short?
First of all, pink tomatoes taste great.
As you can see in the photo, pink varieties of tomatoes have very delicate skin and very juicy pulp:
The delicacy of the taste of pink-fruited tomatoes is created by a harmonious combination of sugars and acids. Secondly, pink tomatoes, along with yellow-fruited ones, are given primacy in nutritional value and healthfulness: they contain twice as much provitamin A as regular tomatoes. They are recommended for children's and dietary nutrition. These tomatoes are ideal for fresh consumption and salads. They are also suitable for pickling, but not when fully ripe.
Pink-fruited tomatoes are not only delicate in taste, but also require gentle handling, but they can be grown in film greenhouses, under temporary film covers, and even in open ground. The main thing is to avoid large changes in air humidity and not to overdry the soil in order to avoid cracking of the fruits. Otherwise, the same requirements should be observed as for other tomatoes grown in film greenhouses.
There are still few varieties and hybrids of pink-fruited tomatoes, but breeders are already actively working on creating pink-fruited hybrids with large fruits and comprehensive disease resistance. And the first of them is the breeding and seed hybrid F1 Rosamarin, which is already well known to gardeners. This tomato has particularly tender flesh. With good agricultural technology, the fruits of the best varieties of pink tomatoes reach quite large sizes and weigh 400 g. F1 Rosamarin is intended for growing in greenhouses and is formed like a regular tall tomato. The hybrid is genetically resistant to tobacco mosaic virus, cladosporium and fusarium. Productivity depending on growing conditions is up to 6-8 kg per plant.
These photos illustrate the description of the pink tomato variety Rosemary:
Reviews
My brother gave me some interesting seeds with orange tomatoes on the package. I planted the seedlings in February, since the summer was hot, and planted them in the greenhouse in early May. The bushes grew strong and did not hurt. From 6 to 10 ovaries were formed on one. I liked the taste of the tomatoes, they were very sweet with tender flesh. The fruits themselves are interesting, and the shape is unusual and the color is red-pink with orange highlights. Those who didn’t come to visit everyone asked where we got such miracle vegetables. The harvest was relatively good, I want to plant more next year.
I planted “Big Rainbow” at my dacha; a neighbor gave me seedlings and planted them in open ground. I don’t know what the reason is, but there was very little harvest, and I really wanted to close this variety of juice for the winter. It seems like she fertilized and watered it. I liked the taste, and in general the tomatoes themselves are unusual. I think next year I’ll plant a few more bushes to try. I will water and feed more often and maybe the plant will give a more impressive harvest.
Evgeniy 45 years old Krasnodar region
I decided to diversify the tomato varieties, otherwise we plant the same ones every year and we’ve already become boring. I bought several different seeds, the one I was most pleased with was “Big Rainbow”, the tomatoes are large, juicy, sweet, and even more like fruits than vegetables. Of course, they are difficult to care for, and as I understand, this variety does not grow well everywhere. The harvest was average, but I will plant more.
Advantages and disadvantages
Bear's blood is a very good tomato. Its advantages:
- productivity;
- resistance to major crop diseases;
- you can collect seeds;
- large fruit;
- early maturation;
- good taste;
- tomatoes are ripened during storage;
- the plant tolerates heat and drought;
- resistance to low temperatures.
The last advantage is noted by all gardeners - residents of regions with problematic climates, although the breeder and the State Register do not mention this.
Among the disadvantages:
- low marketability of fruits (this is typical for many beefs);
- seedlings often stretch out;
- with excess nitrogen, the tomato is prone to fattening;
- the bush needs to be shaped and tied up.
I would also like to say something about fattening. The Bear's Blood tomato is still very young, but some gardeners are already making complaints about excessive growth of green mass. Because of this, the fruits set later, their size is smaller, since the plant expends energy on providing the leaf apparatus.
And who is to blame? There are rules of agricultural technology that strongly recommend reducing nitrogen fertilizing to a minimum during the generative stage of development. If the gardener, after the start of flowering or even at the stage of ovary formation or fruit filling, continues to water the tomato with infusion of fresh mullein, green fertilizers, there is no one to complain about.
Features of caring for seedlings
- Tomato seedlings are planted in a greenhouse in mid-May, so it is advisable to sow them at the end of February, the deadline is the beginning of March. Planting in greenhouse soil is carried out 2 - 2.5 months after seed germination.
- If the seeds are sown not in special fertile soil sold in the store, but in garden soil left in advance, then peat, sand and humus must be added to such soil. All ingredients are taken in equal parts, plus a little ash. The seedling soil mixture is mixed well. If desired, it can be fertilized with phosphate additives.
- Self-made soil requires treatment - disinfection. The most popular method is steaming. This procedure requires a large container, which is filled with water and covered on top with a piece of natural fabric material secured with an elastic band. The earthen mass is poured onto it, and the pan is placed on the fire. The treatment process is completed after the water has completely boiled. Thus, all pathogenic microbes and bacteria will die.
- Immediately before sowing, it is advisable to check the seeds for germination. To do this, you need a five percent saline solution, into which seeds from a bag purchased in a store are dipped. We throw out the floating specimens, and prepare the rest remaining at the bottom for planting. First, we pickle them in a manganese solution for about half an hour, after wrapping the seeds in gauze. Then we dry them and put them in a growth stimulator for 12 hours, so they will germinate faster.
- After planting, thoroughly water the soil, preferably using a sprayer. Be sure to create a greenhouse effect for the seedlings and cover them with polyethylene. The first two weeks we water every day. After the shoots appear, we thin them out and remove weak shoots.
- At the stage of appearance of two true leaves, a picking procedure is performed. To avoid damaging small bushes, we carry out picking with the utmost care. In the future, the seedlings will gain strength and will be ready for planting in a permanent place.
Differences between tomato varieties
Each tomato variety has its own personality. Behind each are years of work by breeders and decades of popular selection. The beauty of the best modern tomato varieties is their diversity. So we “exploit” tomato hybrids and varieties with unlimited growth - indeterminate, semi-determinate, and determinate, the average height of which for the most part ranges from 70-80 cm, and low-growing vegetables, whose height does not exceed half a meter (all of them We will discuss the differences and features in the article below).
You cannot give advice based on outside experience, as some do, deliberately introducing not entirely truthful information about the yield (quantity and quality) of grown tomatoes. They say here they are - the best varieties of tomatoes of the past (and, further, in descending numbers) for tomatoes of the year. With everything, however, it should be noted that they often focus on plant varieties proposed for planting for open and closed ground, without understanding that the advice will be good only after personal experience - better after at least 3-4 years (honestly, but extremely rarely , and 2 are sometimes enough) and with meticulous experiments (starting with growing seedlings using the soil additive Vermiculite, the growth stimulator Gumi and, ending with fertilizing: magnesium sulfate, mineral fertilizer Fertika-Kemira and so on - already in the garden) for each variety.
Why am I giving such a deadline? Yes, because you definitely need to take into account the weather, which differs from year to year, and this is the minimum, in my opinion, period to have more or less an idea about each variety of tomatoes.
Planting mature plants
Seedlings are planted in open ground only at the end of May, but they can be planted in a greenhouse a little earlier. The earth should be warmed to +16° C, and the distance between plants should be about half a meter. First, fertilizers are placed in the prepared holes, then they are watered, and only after that the tomatoes are planted.
For the Big Rainbow variety, immediately after planting, wooden pegs are placed near the bushes and tied to them.
Planting scheme: no more than 3 plants per square meter.
Berdsky large tomato - description and characteristics of the variety
Growing seedlings
In order to plant seedlings in greenhouses in May, they must be sown already in February, that is, 60-65 days before transferring to a permanent place. First of all, you buy fertile soil at a gardening store, or you can make it yourself. To do this, you will need peat, sand, soil from the garden and humus in equal proportions, add a little ash and mix thoroughly. You can also fertilize the mixture with 2% phosphate fertilizers.
To disinfect the resulting soil, you can use a method such as steaming. For it you will need a pan with water, a natural fabric is placed on top of it, secured with an elastic band and the mixture is poured out. Afterwards, the container is placed on the fire, and you just have to wait until the water boils away. This procedure will help destroy larvae and microbes.
Before planting, it is better to check the seeds for germination; this can be done using a regular 5% saline solution. Seeds are dropped there, those that have floated empty and will not sprout, those remaining at the bottom can be sown. In order for them to sprout faster, they are placed in a growth stimulator for 12 hours.
Before planting, dressing is also recommended; for this, potassium permanganate is used, in which the seeds are immersed in a bag made of gauze for 30 minutes. Then they are taken out and washed well under running water. After this procedure, they need to be dried, now the seeds are completely ready.
