The Mazarin F1 tomato, which has earned respect from many farmers: a detailed description of the variety and its characteristics

Bright scarlet heart-shaped tomatoes are a perennial favorite among gardeners. The Mazarin F1 tomato deservedly enjoys love: it has high productivity, excellent commercial qualities, and a presentable shape. There are no difficulties in growing tomatoes; the harvest is consistently good in different regions.

Description and characteristics of the variety

A pressing question for farmers: is the Mazarin tomato a hybrid or not? The tomato belongs to the first generation hybrid group. It has many valuable qualities of hybrids. These are immunity, stress resistance, increased productivity.

The Mazarin tomato “Siberian Garden” ripens early. Designed for temperate and southern areas.

They are grown in greenhouses in the northern regions, where ripening occurs after 110-120 days from germination. In the temperate and southern zones a little earlier - after 95-105 days.

The Mazarin tomato "Aelita" bears fruits similar in shape to strawberries. Among the advantages are transportability and long-term storage. Fruiting lasts from June until frost.

The height of the bush reaches 1.5-1.6 m in open areas, in greenhouses the stems grow up to 2 m. Features of the bushes:

• moderate foliage and branching;
• 5-6 tomatoes are formed on the bunches;
• the number of clusters with fruits is 7-9.

Tomato Mazarin from Biotechnika is a traditional, indeterminate variety.

Cultivation includes sowing and growing through seedlings, as well as pinching during excessive vegetation and regular pinching.

Characteristics of tomatoes:

• average weight from the lower bunches is 600-700 g;
• fruit weight from the upper branches is 300-400 g;
• fleshy, moderately juicy, sugary pulp;
• durable, non-cracking skin;
• dry matter level 6%;
• there are few seed chambers and seeds.

The fruits are used for fresh summer salads. They are used to make aromatic juices, borscht dressings, Italian ketchups and sauces.

Features of planting and growing

Tomatoes are usually grown from seedlings. Considering that Mazarin ripens early, you don’t have to rush too much to sow seeds for seedlings.

Growing tomato seedlings

As a rule, seeds are sown in the last ten days of February - the first half of March. The sowing time is selected depending on the climate of the region so that by the time of planting in open ground or a greenhouse, the seedlings have reached the age of 1.5 months (when transplanting adult seedlings, the first fruit cluster may disappear).

Tomatoes require light, nutritious soil with a neutral reaction. The best option is a mixture of garden soil with compost and a small amount of potash fertilizers and superphosphate. The seeds are simply scattered over the surface of the soil, and then covered with 1–2 cm of soil on top. To speed up germination, you can cover the crops with film.

Many gardeners recommend treating seeds with potassium permanganate (1% solution) and germination stimulants - Zircon, Epin, NV-1 - before planting. It should be borne in mind that Mazarin seeds are often sold already treated against diseases.

The seeds of tall tomatoes, which include Mazarin, do not need to be soaked in growth stimulants. They stimulate the growth of seedlings too much, and they already have enough trouble to prevent “overgrowth”. If there is sufficient humidity in the room and the air temperature is 22–24°, then sprouts will appear on about the 6th day. To prevent seedlings from stretching, seeds should be planted sparsely, preferably in separate cups, and optimal lighting should be provided. In the absence of phytolamps, he encloses the seedlings with reflectors made of foil. Gently pinching the cotyledon leaves and even 1-2 lower leaves helps to restrain the growth of seedlings. This stops the elongation of plants and at the same time provokes thickening of the stem.

Growing tomato seedlings is not difficult. The main condition for success is maintaining optimal temperature and humidity, as well as maximum illumination (10–12 hours of daylight is desirable). To illuminate seedlings, it is recommended to use special LED lamps. If there is not enough light, the seedlings will stretch out and become frail. Stretching is also observed with abundant watering and growing in a warm room (for seed germination, a temperature of about 24 degrees is required, but then it must be reduced to 20-21 oC during the day and 17-18 oC at night).

Video: what to do if tomato seedlings are overgrown

After 2-3 true leaves appear, the seedlings need to be planted in separate containers. This is especially necessary for tall tomatoes such as Mazarin, since picking inhibits the growth of seedlings. After picking for 1–2 days, the seedlings need to be slightly shaded.

Water the seedlings moderately, preferably with a spray bottle. After picking, fertilizing is carried out with complex phosphorus-potassium fertilizers. Then fertilizing is repeated two more times (the last time before planting).

1–1.5 weeks before transplanting to a permanent location, seedlings need to be hardened off. To do this, it is taken out into the open air during the day, gradually increasing the stay time from 1–2 hours to the whole day.

Growing tomato seedlings on video

Planting tomatoes in a permanent place

The beds for tomatoes are prepared in advance. Since the fall, the soil has been enriched with humus (2–5 kg/m2), phosphorus and potassium compounds (2 tablespoons per 1 m2) and dug up. In the spring, before forming the beds, urea is added (1 tablespoon per m2). The width of the bed should be 1.4–1.5 m (for two-line planting), height 30–35 cm.

Tomato seedlings can be transplanted to a permanent place when they reach the age of 45–50 days. You can plant them in a greenhouse in May, and in open ground in early June. The main thing is that by the time of planting the threat of return frosts has already passed - heat-loving tomatoes cannot tolerate them. At first, seedlings in open ground are covered with film.

If there is a strong cold snap in unheated greenhouses with tomatoes, you need to place closed containers with hot water overnight (to prevent condensation from forming).

Large Mazarin bushes require a large feeding area, so there should be no more than 3-4 plants per 1 square meter. This requirement is met by the planting scheme (0.6–0.7m)X(0.8–1m). If plants are planted more densely, the yield will be lower. During planting, a teaspoon of superphosphate and potassium sulfate (or 1/2 cup of ash) is placed in each hole.

It is advisable to place a support peg near each hole immediately after planting (for open ground, height 1.5 m, for greenhouses 2 m) and immediately tie the seedlings to it. During the season, 3-4 more garters will be required.

How to plant tomato seedlings in open ground - video

Rules for growing Mazarin tomatoes

The Mazarin tomato does not require special care conditions. By providing standard watering and fertilizing and proper formation of the bush, you can get high yields without any hassle.

Watering

Tomatoes need to be watered regularly (usually 2 times a week). The bushes especially need moisture during the formation of the ovary and the filling of fruits. For irrigation, you should use settled lukewarm water. It is recommended to sometimes add mullein solution to irrigation water. After each watering, wait until the top layer of soil dries and loosen to a shallow depth and eliminate weeds. If tubercles (the beginnings of roots) are visible on the lower part of the stem, hilling should also be carried out - it provokes the development of additional roots.

When hilling, loose, damp soil is rolled to the base of the stem so that the plant produces additional roots.

Feeding

During the period of growth and fruiting of tomatoes, fertilizing is done 3-4 times to compensate for the amount of nutrients taken by the plant from the soil to grow green mass and form fruits.

They begin to feed the bushes 14–16 days after planting the seedlings in the ground. By this time, both the underground and above-ground parts of the plant approximately double in size. Since the bushes are actively growing during this period, they require nitrogen, so organic matter is suitable for the first feeding (mullein is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10, and chicken manure 1:20, left for a day, and then the plantings are watered at the rate of 2-3 liters per bush ).

One of the most important minerals for tomatoes is potassium: when it is deficient, the leaves dry out and the color of the fruit becomes uneven, green-red. But if you overfeed the plant with potassium, the effect will be negative - dull spots will appear on the leaves, then the foliage will wither.

The next feeding is carried out after 2 weeks, the third - during the formation of fruits, and the fourth - during active fruiting. It is recommended to carry out foliar fertilizing in the intervals between root feedings.

To prepare root dressings, you can use the following mixtures (diluted in a bucket of water, consumption rate is 1 liter per bush):

• 1/2 liter of infusion of bird droppings, diluted 1:20, superphosphate (20–25 g) and potassium sulfate (5 g);
• a liter of mullein and nitrophosk (15 g);
• ash (2 tablespoons), superphosphate (20 g) and manganese sulfate on the tip of a knife;
• liter of infusion of green fertilizer, ash (300 g), superphosphate (2 tablespoons), copper sulfate (1/3 teaspoon).

If there is no opportunity or desire to prepare fertilizers yourself, you can use multicomponent complex fertilizers: nitrophoska, diammophos, nitroammophos, Kemiru Universal-2, Mortar, Potassium Monophosphate.

When plants are weakened by diseases, the concentration of fertilizers for root feeding should be halved.

In greenhouses, fertilizing can be conveniently combined with watering and carried out when the soil dries out.

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In open ground, tomatoes grow in harsher conditions and fertilizing must be adjusted to weather conditions. During prolonged rains, fertilizers need to be applied more often, as they are washed away by precipitation.

Feeding tomatoes during mass fruiting - video

Foliar feeding of tomatoes allows you to quickly saturate plant tissues with nutrients. Such feeding is especially important when the plants are weak and the roots cannot cope with the provision of nutrients, as well as after rains.

Foliar feeding helps primarily to compensate for the deficiency of copper, boron, potassium, magnesium, and zinc. One of the recommended compositions for spraying bushes is a mixture of potassium permanganate (1 g), boric acid (1 g), zinc and magnesium sulfates (2 g each) and copper sulfate (1/2 g), dissolved in 10 liters of water. You can also use ready-made complex fertilizers. Spraying is carried out in the evening or in cloudy weather. Just like regular fertilizing, foliar feeding is carried out 3-4 times per season, approximately once every 2 weeks. Try to time spraying to coincide with the formation of the ovary.

During the period of mass flowering, it is very useful to spray the plants with calcium nitrate (a tablespoon per bucket of water). This will help prevent blossom end rot.

Do not mix calcium supplements with phosphate fertilizers! The interval between treatments with such fertilizers should be at least 4–5 days.

Foliar feeding of tomatoes - video

Plant Formation

Formation of the Mazarin tomato is necessary, since with uncontrolled growth it forms many stepsons and gains greater height to the detriment of the size of the fruit.

The bushes need high supports (twine or trellises), to which the plants are tied immediately after planting in the ground.

Immediately after planting the seedlings, the tomatoes need to be tied to supports and then the tie should be repeated regularly as the bush grows.

It is recommended to plant Mazarin in one stem, although it can be formed into 2 stems - this will speed up fruiting by 1–1.5 weeks. When growing with two stems, you need to leave only 2-3 fruit clusters on each of them.

If the plant is grown in 1 stem, then the top is pinched after the 5th fruit cluster. If this rule is neglected, the stem will grow and form fruits until frost, but the tomatoes will turn out to be very small.

Bushes can be formed into 1 or 2 stems

Stepchildren must be regularly removed so that they do not take away nutrients from the developing fruits.

The fruits will ripen better if the leaves under the formed clusters are removed. In this case, the illumination and ventilation of the plant improves.

Rules for forming tomatoes - video

Protection from pests and diseases

The Mazarin variety is resistant to a number of diseases common to tomatoes, but is easily affected by fusarium, late blight, gray rot and tobacco mosaic.

For prevention, it is necessary to follow the regime of watering (waterlogging contributes to the development of fungal diseases), fertilizing and ventilation (for greenhouse cultivation).

It is advisable to change the greenhouse soil (top layer 5–6 cm) annually. Before planting, you can disinfect the soil - spill it with potassium permanganate or copper sulfate.

After planting the seedlings in a permanent place, it is recommended to use phytosporin during the first watering, which not only protects tomatoes from all fungal diseases, but is also an organic fertilizer. A tablespoon (15 ml) of the drug is diluted in 10 liters of water and 1 glass of solution is poured under each bush after watering. It is advisable to repeat this treatment 3-4 more times with an interval of 5-6 days. You can use phytosporin to spray bushes, since this drug is non-toxic to humans.

Treatment of tomatoes against diseases - video

Plantings can also be attacked by pests: aphids, slugs, spider mites. Washing the plants with a soap solution will help prevent aphids. Slugs can be eliminated by spraying the plantings with ammonia solution. To expel spider mites you will need insecticides (Pant-Pin, Etisso, Actellik, Fitoverm), however, they can only be used before mass flowering begins. Folk remedies for fighting ticks include treatment with henbane infusion (1 kg of dried raw material is poured with a bucket of water and left for 12–14 hours, a little soap is added before use). Bleached must be processed 2 times with an interval of no more than 7 days.

Tomato pest control - video

Pests and diseases

The Mazarin hybrid is resistant to rot and TMV. During an epidemic, an outbreak of late blight may occur. Brown spots form on the bushes. For treatment use “Ridomil Gold”, “Quadris”.

To prevent late blight and blackleg, the following measures are carried out:

• soil preparation - treatment on the eve of planting with 1% Fitosporin;
• ventilation of greenhouses;
• Irrigation of bushes with 1% Bordeaux mixture.

Trouble can be caused by cutworm caterpillars, aphids, slugs, and mole crickets.

Care

The harvest depends on timely and proper care.

1. As the stepsons grow, they are removed and some of the leaves are torn off to prevent fungal diseases. It also helps direct the plant’s energy to ripen the fruit.
2. Irrigation with warm water ensures harvest even in hot summers. A bucket of water is added under each bush, 2-3 times a week.
3. Adding mulch helps save time on removing weeds, loosening, and watering.
4. Tomatoes are fed three times a season. Nitrogen (urea) is added for the first time 14 days after planting, according to the same scheme as when growing seedlings. Afterwards, twice, with an interval of 2 weeks, water with a solution of complex mineral fertilizer with a low nitrogen content (for example, Kemira Lux). The recipe for preparing the solution is indicated on the product packaging.

The Mazarin hybrid attracts consumers with its delicate pink fruit color and high yields. They are unpretentious and can be grown successfully even by beginners.

What techniques can you use to increase productivity?

From 1 m2 they collect 14-20 kg, from 1 bush from 6 to 9 kg.

The fruits of the Mazarin variety are very large, about 500 grams, with a wonderful fresh tomato aroma and taste. Tomatoes on the first clusters can reach a weight of 800 grams.

Tomatoes ripen 120 days from the appearance of the first shoots. The fruits of this variety are excellent for preparing salads, juices, sauces, and canning. Anyone will like it fresh.

One bush produces four or five clusters on which tomatoes ripen, reminiscent in shape and color of a huge strawberry. The color of the fruit is usually bright crimson. The skin is shiny, dense, under which the pulp ripens, fleshy, sugary and juicy.

There are only a small number of seeds in the fruit. Therefore, for planting, they are purchased from specialized seed stores.

The yield of the variety increases significantly if the bushes are grown in greenhouses and all agrotechnical recommendations are followed. You can remove up to 15 kg of tomatoes from one bush per season.

The red miracle is the Mazarin tomato.
When growing tomatoes, and the Mazarin variety is no exception, in order to increase the yield from each plant, vegetable growers recommend following several rules:

1. Place on 1 sq. m area no more than 3 plants;
2. Form one stem by removing side shoots and pinching;
3. Do not leave more than 4 brushes on the bush;
4. Fertilize with magnesium sulfate during the formation of ovaries;
5. To speed up ripening, apply potassium fertilizers at the roots;
6. When the plant begins to grow, water only in severe drought;
7. Remove lower and diseased leaves during harvest ripening.

Sometimes it happens that a plant grows quickly, forming a powerful trunk and increasing green mass. At the same time, it is in no hurry to bloom, and the brushes themselves are weak. In other words, the plant “fattens.” This happens when there is a lack of light and excess moisture.

How to help such a plant?

Experienced gardeners recommend stopping watering for a week, raising the temperature to 25-26°C, pollinating in the daytime from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. by shaking, and feeding the roots with superphosphate (6 tablespoons of superphosphate per 20 liters of water).

Reviews of Mazarin tomato

The Mazarin tomato is not capricious and is suitable for growing even by novice gardeners. Compliance with easy care rules will allow you to get a high yield of large fruits of unusual shape.

Like most other early varieties, seedlings are planted by Mazarin in late February or early March. It is recommended to use nutritious light soil with neutral acidity for planting seedlings. Ideally, you should use a nutrient mixture that is prepared from grain soil, part of peat and part of old humus. It would not be a bad idea to additionally add ash, superphosphate and potassium fertilizers to the soil.

Planting seeds for seedlings is not difficult. They must be planted without deepening, sprinkled with a small layer of soil on top.

Germination occurs at temperatures of 23-25 ​​degrees; the pots themselves should be covered with film on top. On bad weather and cloudy days, pots with seedlings should be additionally illuminated with energy-saving lamps. It is best to water them sparingly using a spray bottle.

As soon as the first true leaves appear on the sprouted seedlings, you should pick and transplant the seedlings into separate pots. When growing seedlings in separate containers, they should be fed with fertilizers containing potassium and phosphorus. It is recommended to perform this fertilizing twice, the last time applying fertilizer immediately before planting the seedlings in the ground. The fertilizers used should be used in full accordance with the description.

Advice. A few weeks before the expected date of planting seedlings in open ground, the plants should be hardened by first taking them out for a few minutes, and then for the whole day in the open air.

Seedlings can be planted in open ground or in a greenhouse at the end of May. When growing tomatoes in open ground, seedlings should initially be covered with film. Description of the planting pattern - in a row or in a checkerboard pattern. No more than three bushes are planted per square meter of bed. But with compacted planting, the yield is significantly reduced.

Before planting, the soil should be loosened, holes should be dug, where superphosphate and potassium sulfate should be added, one tablespoon per hole. Subsequently, throughout the entire growing season, vegetables should be fed with superphosphate and calcium sulfate 3-4 times with an interval of three weeks.

To improve productivity, tomatoes are formed into one stem, and the lower leaves and side shoots are removed. After transplanting, the seedlings should be tied to supports, which can be vertical trellises or high, strong necklaces.

The Mazarin tomato loves abundant, but not frequent watering. That is why plantings can be irrigated once a week. For irrigation, warm water is used, to which a small amount of mullein can be added to improve yields.

Harvesting is carried out as the tomatoes ripen. They can even be picked green, and subsequently they ripen in 3-5 days and acquire a characteristic bright red color.

This variety of tomatoes is resistant to various diseases of the nightshade family. Diseases such as gray rot, tobacco mosaic and late blight are extremely rare. The gardener only needs to follow the rules of prevention, apply fertilizers in a timely manner, ventilate the greenhouse and prevent the soil from becoming waterlogged.

When growing outdoors, a gardener may encounter a problem with insect pests. For example, aphids, slugs and spider mites can appear on Mazarin tomatoes. Depending on the specific pest, it is necessary to use special insecticides; naked slugs can be repelled with ammonia, and aphids can be fought by washing the affected areas with a light solution of soapy water.

In general, the variety receives very good reviews – both in terms of yield and taste. Among the disadvantages, the formation of a green or yellow unripening top on some fruits is noted.

Some reviews indicate decent resistance of “Mazarin” to blossom end rot and late blight, but there is no information about full-fledged field experiments anywhere. Therefore, when growing, attention should be paid to agrotechnical measures - avoid thickening, water carefully and regularly inspect plants for late blight. If detected, immediately treat with Bordeaux mixture.

If you have experience growing Mazarin tomatoes, you can leave your feedback in the comments.

Experienced gardeners have no doubt about the Mazarin variety: it is confidently named among the top ten for growing in greenhouses. When planted in open ground (if it is not in the southern region), the Mazarin tomato produces smaller fruits, yield and taste are reduced.

“I’ve been growing tomatoes for about 10 years; I set up a small greenhouse at my father’s village. Last year, my mother-in-law purchased Mazarin tomato seeds from Biotechnika and grew seedlings for me.

The bushes grew up to 2 m, I tied them up 4 times over the summer, and I was also pleased with the harvest - there are 3-5 large, beautiful fruits on each cluster, and the size of the tomatoes decreases towards the top.

I’ll say one thing about care: I didn’t bother. Watered, loosened, mulched. I treated it for late blight a couple of times and, of course, removed excess and diseased leaves.

My tomatoes bore fruit until late autumn, fortunately it was warm. Just before the frost, I removed all the fruits from the bushes and put them in a basket for ripening. And it was already the beginning of November. And what do you think? There were tomatoes on my table for New Year too. True, the taste has changed a little, but these are our own, environmentally friendly.

In general, thanks to my mother-in-law, I brought her 3 banana boxes of tomatoes for tomato juice. Now I only have Mazarin in my greenhouse. And in order to have something to preserve, I planted 20 bushes on the ridge - they grow smaller there.”

Advantages and disadvantages

Mazarin tomatoes have a lot of positive qualities that make them popular with many Russian gardeners. What especially attracts people is that these tomatoes:

• early and tall;
• form many ovaries;
• have fruits of medium and large sizes, an original, memorable shape;
• have an excellent characteristic “tomato” taste;
• bear fruit for a long time (until frost);
• The last unripe tomatoes ripen well in a warm room.

The disadvantages of hybrid Mazarin tomatoes are as follows:

• since their bushes grow up to 1.5 m and higher, they need to be tied up and shaped, and this is not to the taste of all gardeners;
• vegetable growers note that tomatoes suffer from pests - Colorado potato beetles and mole crickets, and also that the volume of the harvest and the taste of tomatoes depend on the level of lighting: with its lack, the quantity and quality of the fruit suffers.

Fruit characteristics

• They have an unusual heart-shaped shape, reminiscent of a strawberry with a pointed tip.
• Smooth, beautiful, large.
• The pulp is juicy and tasty.
• The skin is moderately thick, so the fruits do not crack.
• The average weight of a tomato is about 400-500 g. The lower first fruits are usually 100-150 g larger.
• The color of a ripe tomato is bright crimson.
• They are stored for a long time.
• The fruits have few chambers and seeds.
• They can ripen when stored in the light.

Mazarin tomato diseases

The use of these means gives reliable results, however, many vegetable growers prefer to use traditional methods:

• Spraying with an infusion of crushed garlic (40 g per bucket) every two weeks protects against late blight. A similar effect is achieved by treating a solution of milk or whey (1 liter of milk per 5 liters of water);
• Septoria (white spotting) recedes before regular treatments with 1% Bordeaux mixture;
• To prevent mosaic infection, treatments are carried out with a solution of potassium permanganate (1.5 g per bucket of water) with an interval of 20 days;
• For brown spotting, spraying with a solution of copper sulfate helps (for 10 liters of water, 1 tablespoon of vitriol and 2 tablespoons of liquid soap);
• A universal remedy is considered to be treatment with the following solution: 3 tbsp. wood ash is boiled for 20 minutes. in a small amount of water, filter and dilute in a bucket of water with the addition of 20 g of laundry soap.