Assortment of tomatoes in catalogs - choose, I don’t want! But breeders do not stop and continue to pamper farmers. The sweet donut is a new product with an extraordinary taste, high productivity and resistance to negative weather changes.
| Height | Landing location | Ripening time | Fruit color | Fruit size | Origin | Fruit shape |
| short | Greenhouse, Open ground | Mid-season | Yellow | Average | Variety | With spout |
Description and characteristics of the Sweet Donut tomato, reviews, photos
A new, high-yielding, early-ripening variety from Siberian breeders for film greenhouses and open ground. Lovers of yellow tomatoes will really like it for its good taste and low acid content.
Early ripening. The Pink Elephant tomato is one of the very first varieties of the Siberian tomato giant. But it has already established itself as very productive, unpretentious and at the same time frost-resistant. And due to the fact that it is mid-season, it can be grown indoors - in greenhouses in winter, and in the country in summer. This tomato has a wide round shape with ribs. Large-fruited - the average fruit weight reaches 350 grams.
The plant is up to 1 meter high, has a simple cluster, with 4-8 beautiful, aligned, round-shaped fruits, amber-yellow in color, weighing up to 150 grams. Inflorescences are formed after 1-2 leaves, fruit ripening is early and smooth.
A variety of universal use, excellent taste. Resistant to TMV.
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Productivity is high - up to 6 kg per 1 sq. meters. This is one of the few varieties that guarantees high yields in years of different weather conditions. (Description of Sibsad.)
Push. I liked the variety. Grown in a greenhouse. Low, compact bush. Fruitful. Neat, even fruits. The taste is not outstanding, but pleasant.
This is a natural variety of tomato. Therefore, we recommend taking seeds from a ripe fruit and using them for planting in subsequent seasons.
Short description
Before planting a tomato, you need to study its characteristics and description. With their help you can find out a lot of useful information about this variety.
Sweet donut differs from other tomatoes in its high yield and resistance to all common tomato diseases. The variety is universal, since it can be grown both in greenhouses and on the streets.
Therefore, if the plant grows outside, you will have to take care of its garter. It is needed to protect the plant from strong gusts of wind that can break the tomato stem. You will also have to start pruning the bushes. During this procedure, you will have to get rid of all the extra stepsons that may interfere with the formation of the fruit.
The fruits are quite round, round in shape and bright yellow in color. If you grow them under optimal conditions, the weight of one tomato will be equal to 200 grams. Thanks to such large tomatoes, it will be possible to harvest 6-8 kilograms of tomatoes from one bush.
Reviews about this variety of tomatoes
Alexander Mamedov, Kemerovo, 61 years old Tomato bred in 2009. The variety is indeterminate, productive. From germination to fruiting 130-140 days. The stem is erect. The fruit is round, smooth, glossy, orange-red at maturity, weighing 220-250 g. The pulp is sugary and tender. The taste is excellent. Productivity more than 7 kg per plant. The hybrid is resistant to fusarium, crown and root rot. Resistant to tobacco mosaic virus. Can be grown both in open ground and in greenhouses.
Irina Asanova, Surgut, 52 years old This is our third crop of tomatoes grown in the Surgut region. We grew both in a greenhouse and outdoors - last year, in April, we planted in open ground this year too. We planted 3 bushes per hole - 2 buckets of seedlings. I won’t argue about the quality of seedlings; we plant only varietal ones. As of today, my fruits have already ripened in the greenhouse (2 bushes) and outside (1 bush).
Vener Grishin, Ufa, 59 years old New tomato variety Sweet Donut. The Sweet Donut tomato variety was bred by breeders from the Agro-Soyuz company. The tomato has a determinate bush type, a mid-season variety (90-100 days from germination to the beginning of ripening). The fruits are very large, fleshy, sweet, weighing 250-350 g, heart-shaped with a pointed tip. The taste is excellent. Productivity is high. The variety is resistant to diseases. Recommended for growing in open ground and under temporary film covers.
Anyuta Nazarova, Lipetsk, 45 years old The tomato variety Sweet Donut is one of the brightest representatives of the early varieties, characterized by good yield, resistance to cold and disease. Sweet donut. Characteristics: Description Fruits The pulp is fleshy, juicy. Good for making pasta, sauces and salads. Ripening time The period from germination to fruiting is 110-120 days. Productivity Productivity per bush is 2-3 kg. The seedlings of the variety are strong, healthy, develop well and grow quickly.
Den Pupkin, Chelyabinsk, 50 years old The Sweet Donut tomato variety was bred in Russia. Bush up to a meter high, compact. The fruit is flat-round, weighing about 600 g, red. The pulp is sweet, tender, low in seeds, and very tasty. Productivity is high. The plant needs abundant watering (about 1.5 buckets per bush). I plant 2 bushes in a greenhouse and plant them in May. I'm filming at the end of July. I didn’t take stepsons, I didn’t remove stepchildren. I'm filming at the end of October. After ripening in mid-October, I put them indoors for ripening.
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Ekaterina Mashkina, Kirov, 61 years old Read more Growing tomatoes in a polycarbonate greenhouse in the winter. Tomato Sweet Donut More details Sweet donut - a tomato from the delicious series More details How to plant a tomato Sweet donut in open ground More details Tomatoes Sweet Parrot and Tomato Raindrop. More details Tomato Donut - planting, care, cultivation, harvest, reviews More details Review of seeds: Tomato Donut More details sowing and caring for sweet tomatoes More details Sweet Donut (photo in the garden) More details
Max Ivanov, Samara, 48 years old This year, for the first time in my fields, I sowed a new product for myself, and not for sale - the Sweet Donut tomato. The variety is late; in the greenhouse you can harvest it already in mid-July. The dense red fruits are shaped like a donut, with a thick skin and small, fleshy, sweet seeds inside. The pulp is dense, very aromatic, sweet even when processed. Tomatoes are dense and fleshy, excellent for whole-fruit canning.
Alexander Nikitin, Voronezh, 67 years old Reviews about the garden and vegetable garden. You can find reviews about everything from this person. And even about growing vegetables and fruits. All reviews were written by the real author of the site, which indicates the author’s responsibility for each review. If you decide to grow tomatoes, be sure to read how to do it so as not to harm the plants. My way of growing tomatoes Tomatoes are very demanding of moisture. But I have my own technology for watering tomatoes. Last year I grew tomatoes in a greenhouse.
Care
Apart from the “Sweet Donut” garter, the variety, based on the description of the varietal characteristics, does not require special care. The principle of care is similar to that of other tomato varieties.
Frequent watering should be avoided for this plant. It leads to a deterioration in the condition of the fruits and to their cracking.
Water must go directly to the roots, for this reason farmers use drip irrigation methods.
The variety copes well with long periods of drought. But this does not mean that you can completely forget about culture. In hot weather, you need to water it every two or three days. As soon as the weather stabilizes, you can return to infrequent watering. Once every seven days is enough for a “Sweet Donut”.
The gardener cannot do without loosening, as well as using mulch, which will reliably protect the plant at all phases of its development. Gardeners are confident that mulching gives more benefits only to early ripening varieties. But any variety will benefit from this procedure.
Many farmers prefer to use peat moss. It decomposes slowly during the growing season, adding nutrients to the soil. Be sure to water your tomato plant before spreading the peat moss. It absorbs moisture from the soil.
Those who grow tomatoes commercially often mulch with black plastic, which retains heat and increases the yield of the tomato plant. However, this type of mulch is expensive.
Sweet tomatoes for the middle zone
Varieties of different ripening periods are suitable for growing, but it is advisable to grow mid-late and late varieties in greenhouses.
- Pandarose F1 is a mid-early tomato, distinguished by its growth and tasty large fruits. From the group of indeterminate hybrids, it forms bright pink tomatoes when fully ripe. They weigh about 200-250 grams and do not crack even during long-term storage or transportation.
- Pink large F1 - tomato from Siberian Garden, the fruits have a high content of beta-carotene. Tomatoes are rich pink in color, with small seed chambers. The pulp is in layers, crumbly, and when cut it is sugary. By weight - 300-500 grams, growing up to 700 grams. Ripening time is approximately 100 days. Requires complex fertilizing in the second half of the growing season.
- Emerald gem F1 - the bushes of this tomato grow tall, with beautiful openwork foliage. 3-4 brushes with small “cream” tomatoes are formed. At first the tomatoes are green, as they ripen the color becomes a little lighter and the amber flesh begins to show through. The contents are sweet, with a pleasant fruit aroma.
- Southern tan - the tomato belongs to the group of new varieties, is distinguished by a small number of stepsons and high yield. Plants in greenhouses grow up to 1.7 meters, when grown on ridges without shelter - up to 1.5 meters. The fruits are cylindrical, dense, and when fully ripe, have a rich amber-orange color with a coral tint on the sides. They weigh 180-200 grams. The pulp is fleshy, juicy, with few seeds.
- Date is a raceme type, from the cherry group. The bushes grow tall, up to 1.5-1.7 meters in greenhouses. Sweet tomatoes are small in scale, only 18-20 grams. The pulp is dense, sugary. Children love this tomato; they eat it like candy straight from the bush. The Date tomato variety tolerates short cold snaps well.
- Jaguar - an early hybrid is ready for harvesting after 85-90 days. Tomatoes are round in shape, aligned, with barely visible ribbing. Weight does not exceed 180-200 grams. Beneath the thick red skin is juicy flesh. A hybrid of sweet taste, very resistant to low temperatures and does not change its taste characteristics due to lack of heat. Valued for its resistance to diseases: fusarium, late blight.
Among the varieties with a high sugar content are Pink Spam, Tanya, and Pink Berets tomatoes.
Caring for tomatoes in a greenhouse
In May, the time comes to transplant tomatoes to a permanent place, but these terms are very arbitrary. Depending on the weather, air and soil temperatures, they plan the day of planting, and it is advisable to do this in the late afternoon.
The soil temperature should be +14ºC…+16ºC. In the greenhouse, the soil warms up earlier; Bystrenok can be transplanted there already in early May. For open ground, the timing shifts towards summer; in a number of regions (Ural, Siberia, North-West) tomatoes are planted on ridges only by June 10-15.
It is recommended to cover the plants with non-woven material after planting. It will serve as protection from possible cold snaps and from the bright rays of the sun. Hardened seedlings take root quickly, the plants do not experience stress and after just a few days they feel great in the new conditions.
The hybrid planting scheme is 4 plants per square meter. Denser plantings are not recommended; this affects the overall yield.
Unusual fruits worth a million
The characteristics of the fruits of the variety are interesting; they are unusual both in taste and structure.
Small tomatoes, similar in appearance to the Cherry variety, reach a weight of fifteen to twenty grams. They are called cherries because of their bright red color. The brushes are strewn with delicious juicy fruits that can be constantly put into your mouth, they are so sweet. This is an excellent treat for children, especially healthy. Anyone who grows Sweet Million tomatoes will receive strong immunity to colds and will save themselves from the formation of malignant tumors.
Due to their high taste, the fruits of the variety are suitable for canning whole. They ripen together, in large clusters. Their yield reaches ten to twelve kilograms per square meter of greenhouse, and in open ground it is half as much.
Rules for growing the variety
Gardeners should understand that caring for short-growing tomatoes of the Detsky variety will require taking into account certain nuances. Despite the fact that pinching and gartering lose their important meaning, control over the formation of the stem and regular care are still mandatory.
Experienced farmers note that it is still advisable to tie up tomatoes. In this case, the bush becomes more open to natural sunlight and is protected from parasites. As a result, staking tomato bushes increases the chances of successfully obtaining the desired result.
Low-growing tomato bushes do not always produce stepsons or form them in small quantities. In some situations, pinching is required, since this procedure is aimed at normalizing the load of the plant. Otherwise, there is a threat of partial loss of the tomato harvest.
Even low-growing tomatoes require proper and comprehensive care.
So, what should you pay special attention to?
- Loosening the soil is mandatory. The condition of the soil determines the successful growth of tomatoes. For this reason, it is recommended to loosen the soil to obtain the optimal amount of oxygen and the proper development of the root system of vegetables. In addition, loosening the soil involves removing unwanted weeds.
- Fertilizer application is another important task. The use of properly selected nutrient mixtures improves the growth and development of tomatoes. In addition, regular fertilizing contributes to obtaining a large and high-quality harvest. However, abundant fertilization with nitrogen or organic matter is undesirable, since the plant will stretch out, the emphasis will be on the green mass and difficulties will arise in obtaining high-quality ripe tomatoes.
- Regular moderate watering is mandatory. It is advisable to use warm, settled water for watering tomatoes.
Such comprehensive care is always aimed at obtaining a high-quality harvest.
Questions about planting tomatoes
Weather conditions have minimal impact on obtaining an excellent harvest. As a rule, velvet tomatoes have a stable yield. If agrotechnological requirements are observed, as well as with regular feeding, up to 5–7 kg of vegetables of this variety can be obtained from 1 m2.
Characteristics and description of the King of London tomato variety, its yieldRead
Planting seeds of this variety begins 50–60 days before the optimum temperature occurs, allowing seedlings to be planted in open ground. Seed cultivation is carried out indoors with a temperature of about 23–25 ⁰С. Tomatoes are planted in open beds after the soil has warmed to 15 degrees.
To ensure quick and friendly seedlings, you can pre-treat the seed material with ready-made products to stimulate their growth.
Features of planting and growing
Tomato Pinocchio can be sown immediately in a permanent place. When grown in open ground, it can be planted both in beds and flower beds, with a planting density of 7–8 bushes per square meter.
If tomatoes are grown in seedlings, the seeds can be sown in cut plastic bottles filled with fertile purchased soil (sowing is done in March):
- The seeds are buried 1.5–2 cm and sprinkled with peat.
- Plantings need to be covered with film to create a greenhouse effect.
- After 5–6 days, germination will begin.
Like other varieties of tomatoes, Pinocchio must be watered when the top layer of soil dries out. With the appearance of 2–3 true leaves, the plants are planted, and at the age of 45–50 days they are transplanted to a permanent place.
Video: growing Pinocchio tomato on a windowsill
Caring for Pinocchio is not difficult - you just need to water and feed it on time:
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- during the period of active growth, nitrogen fertilizers are required;
- When setting and ripening tomatoes, it is better to use potassium fertilizer.
In any case, feeding should not be too frequent - approximately once every 12–14 days. It is very useful to use mullein (diluted with water 1:5, the norm is 1 liter per bush), as well as ready-made complex fertilizers: Kemira, Kristalon, Master, Mortar. These preparations can be used for both root and foliar feeding (stimulate the development and growth of plants and prevent flower falling).
Complex fertilizers for tomatoes in the photo
Kemira presents a whole line of fertilizers with different compositions. Master differs from other fertilizers in the same proportions of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. Kristalon is intended for application to the soil in dry form. Rasvorin is an easily soluble fertilizer suitable for almost any vegetables.
When grown indoors, Pinocchio may suffer from insufficient lighting. When sowing in winter and early spring, seedlings must be illuminated using special phytolamps placed at a height of 25–30 cm above the plants.
Phytolamps provide the light spectrum plants need
The peculiarity of this mini-tomato is that after the formation of fruit clusters, the plant begins to quickly turn yellow and does not form new flowers or ovaries. This is not a sign of disease, but a normal physiological process, so after harvesting the fruits, the bush simply needs to be eliminated and replaced with another. Therefore, if you want to admire the elegant tomato bushes for a long time, you need to sow the seeds in batches at intervals of several days. This approach will allow you to use the decorative properties of Pinocchio for a long time.
Pests and diseases
Pinocchio is highly resistant to pests and diseases. Even with high humidity in home growing conditions, it is usually not affected by rot or other fungal diseases.
With excessive watering and insufficient lighting, a “black leg” may develop on a tomato. In the fight against the “black leg”, the best way to help is to wash the soil before planting with potassium permanganate dissolved in boiling water (dark pink solution). Diseased tomatoes should be removed immediately, and the soil around them should be treated with Bordeaux mixture (1%).
With blackleg disease, the roots darken and rot.
Pests should only be feared when cultivating Pinocchio in open ground: the plantings can be attacked by slugs (spraying the soil with metaldehyde or ammonia solution will help) and cabbage grass (insecticides such as Confidor will scare it off).
From my own experience of growing tomatoes, I realized that the most important thing is timely feeding. For the first time I feed (lightly water) the germinating seedlings with potassium permanganate (pink solution). I carry out the second feeding after 1–1.5 weeks. Tea infusion works very well (1 cup of used tea leaves is poured into 3 liters of boiling water and infused for 7–8 days). This feeding is good for any other plants. To prevent midges from infesting, I stick matches head down into the soil next to the seedlings. I carry out the third feeding (again with tea) 2-3 days before picking. After transplanting to a permanent place, I do not water it for the first 9–10 days. In summer, watering should be weekly, and should be stopped at the beginning of active fruit ripening. I prefer to treat even disease-resistant tomatoes against late blight with copper-containing fungicides (twice during the growing season with an interval of 2 weeks). As a rule, no further effort is required to grow tomatoes.
Planting seeds
Seed preparation
Before planting, the seed must be treated with special preparations. The seeds need to be soaked in a weak manganese solution. 1 g of the substance must be diluted with 1 liter of water and mixed. Then they are placed in a fabric bag, and then in a container. You need to soak the seed for half an hour. After this procedure, you should remove the seeds and rinse them with water.
Also, planting material can be treated with drugs that will stimulate the growth of tomatoes. If this procedure is carried out correctly, the growth rate can increase several times. The most suitable drugs for this type of procedure would be Zircon or Epin-Extra. Processing of planting material should take no more than 20 minutes.
Sowing
For tomatoes, you will need to prepare special cassettes. To do this, you need to place nutritious soil in them and sow seeds into it. It is desirable that the soil is loose. This is necessary so that the seedlings emerge earlier. The soil in containers must be moistened before planting. Then you need to make holes in all the cells and plant the seeds in them. They should be from 2 to 3 cm in size. You need to plant one seed in each hole. After all these procedures, the cassettes should be covered with film and placed in a place where they can germinate. Also, don’t forget about lighting.
Planting seedlings
Transplantation of seedlings into open ground should be done 60-90 days after planting. During this time, the tomatoes will already have time to strengthen their root system.
Site selection
It is necessary to organize a suitable area for tomatoes. It is desirable that it be open and have good lighting. Since the variety is quite tall, it must be provided with protection from the wind. Therefore, planting should be done in a place that is protected by a low fence from possible gusts of wind.
Planting seedlings
Before planting, it is necessary to prepare the soil. To protect young bushes from pests, 2-3 weeks before planting, you need to heat up a solution of copper sulfate and apply it to the site. It is also advisable to fertilize the soil with substances such as superphosphate, ash and humus. After these procedures, it is advisable to dig up the area.
After completing the soil preparation, planting can begin. First you need to create a sufficient number of holes. The distance between them should be half a meter. Then you need to place seedlings in each hole.
It is important that they are in an upright position. Then you need to sprinkle them with soil and compact them.
Next to each bush there should be a metal or wooden support for the garter.
The sweet donut variety is an ideal option for gardeners who prefer tomatoes that have high yields. In order for all the declared characteristics to be justified, before planting you should familiarize yourself with the characteristics of a particular variety and read reviews from experienced gardeners. This is especially recommended for novice summer residents who have no experience in growing this crop, or who are taking on growing a specific variety for the first time.
