Brief information about the variety
- Fruits and bush : red-burgundy tomatoes, weight 180-350 g, tall bush.
- Productivity : 6 kg per bush (20 kg per sq.m of tomato bed).
- Resistance : the variety is famous for its genetic resistance to diseases, and is also immune to insect pests.
- Distribution : can be planted in unprotected soil in the southern and temperate regions; greenhouse cultivation is preferred in the Urals and Siberia.
- Application : these tomatoes are recommended for salads; they are not suitable for whole-fruit canning.
- Planting : predominantly seedling technology, taking into account the early ripening of the variety.
- Soil : light soils.
- Care : all actions are standard, the only thing that needs to be taken into account is that it is necessary to form the stem and garter, because heavy fruits can damage the bush.
- Ripening period : harvest until late autumn, tomatoes ripen well at home.
Is it possible to collect seeds?
Since the tomato variety in question is not a hybrid, the seeds are suitable for self-collection and subsequent planting. However, remember, it is better to purchase tomato seeds in specialized stores. This will guarantee high germination and quality of fruits.
To summarize, we can say that growing “One Hundred Poods” tomatoes is worth a try. Many have been cultivating it in their gardens for several years now, and do not think of giving it up. These tomatoes produce a good harvest not only in the greenhouse, but also in the garden. Caring for tomatoes will not take much effort and time, and the result will only please you - juicy, sweet, large tomatoes. The best and most numerous reviews from summer residents about this variety only confirm this.
general characteristics
The tomato variety Hundred Poods is early ripening, but fruiting continues until autumn. It is suitable for cultivation in any region.
But it is worth observing the planting conditions: in warm regions they are cultivated in the garden, and in cold regions - only in greenhouses or hotbeds.
In greenhouses, you can only grow seedlings or short, early-ripening vegetables such as radishes, lettuce, etc., since a greenhouse is a wooden box, maximum 50 cm high, covered on top with frames made of glass or film.
However, many gardeners claim that yields are much higher in protected soil.
Plant
The bush is tall, indeterminate. In favorable climatic conditions and with good care, it reaches 2-2.5 meters.
When cultivated in an open bed, the height of an adult plant differs; the bush does not exceed 1.5 m.
Tomatoes need staking (attachment to a support), regular formation of the stem, and pinching to inhibit growth.
Fruit
Tomatoes One Hundred Poods amaze with their characteristics; they are very fleshy and elastic. The shape is fuzzy, more rounded, there is pronounced ribbing.
The fruits reach a weight of 180-250 g. But there are also record holders that weigh about 350 g.
Many people like the unusual appearance of tomatoes, which is why they are grown so actively. They look very nice in salads.
When unripe, tomatoes are bright emerald in color, but when they reach commercial maturity, they acquire rich red shades.
A bonus of the variety is the absence of greenery at the junction with the stalk.
The pulp is rich, juicy, tasty and aromatic. Contains a huge amount of sugars, antioxidants and delicious benefits.
Productivity
The tomato novelty One Hundred Poods pleases gardeners in the northern regions of Russia with its rapid ripening.
To start bearing fruit, only 110 days after germination are enough. 7 massive pear-shaped fruits are formed on one brush.
The creators promise the following yield:
- 6 kg per bush;
- 20 kg per sq.m.
Resistance to diseases and pests
According to the description, the variety is endowed with good resistance to weather conditions. It is important to follow the rules of cultivation and care in order to maintain the stated characteristics.
It is better to carry out preventive measures to guarantee protection.
Application area
The fruits have good taste characteristics
The tomatoes taste sweet, with a gentle sourness. These massive beauties are ideal for fresh consumption; many people add them to salads, grill them, or use them in soup stir-fries.
Tomatoes are not very suitable for whole-fruit canning, but if you select smaller fruits, they can be marinated in their own juice, made into pastes, purees and ketchups.
Description
The State Register describes the plant as indeterminate. In closed ground, the height of the tomato reaches 1.5 - 2.0 meters; some say that even after overcoming this line, the bushes continue to grow. In an open garden bed the growth is more modest - 1.0 - 1.2 meters. The plant looks powerful, the stem is strong. The shoot-forming ability of the variety is moderate. The foliage is average. The leaves of One Hundred Poods are large, dark green, of the usual type, with a slightly corrugated surface. The stem, shoots, petioles and inflorescences are covered with glandular hairs. The inflorescence is intermediate. Up to 7 ovaries are formed in each fruit cluster, although not all tomatoes ripen. But all the same, the brushes turn out to be heavy - from 3 to 5 fruits. The first inflorescence is formed above the 6th - 7th leaf, the subsequent ones - every 3 leaves. The peduncle is without articulation.
The appearance of tomatoes is quite unusual. The shape is very original, it immediately attracts the eye. The tomato can be barrel-shaped or pear-shaped, with strongly pronounced longitudinal ribbing. From a distance, the pear-shaped, folded tomato looks like a tied bag. The unripe fruit of One Hundred Poods is colored light green, there is no dark spot on the stalk. A ripened tomato turns a deep red color; some tomato growers describe the color as red-orange. The skin is glossy, thin, but quite strong and not tough. The great advantage of this variety is that the skin can be removed from the pulp quite easily; you don’t even need to scald it with boiling water. Many fleshy tomato varieties suffer from green shoulders, but our hero in this regard shows an excellent degree of ripeness and color. This is facilitated by leisurely maturation.
Tomatoes are thick-walled, medium-density. The pulp is evenly colored, but there may be a slight whiteness on the cut at the base - this is not a drawback, but a varietal feature. The pulp is also meaty, due to the increased content of dry substances and delicate consistency. The aroma is bright and fresh. When cut into slices, the pulp does not drain. The number of seed chambers is 4 - 6 (sometimes you can count a dozen). The chambers are small, asymmetrical, usually well filled, with a small number of seeds. But sometimes voids inside a tomato can occur, however, they are very small and do not affect the overall impression. The State Register describes the taste of One Hundred Poods as good. Vegetable growers have a higher opinion of taste. They note a high sugar content, but at the same time a subtle sourness is felt, so we can confidently call the taste pronounced, real, tomato. Fruit weight according to the State Register is 200 - 260 grams. The originator claims a weight of 170 to 250 grams. In fact, tomatoes grow larger in size - 300 grams, and this is not uncommon, but rather a pattern. Some specimens even exceed 500 grams. Another quality that tomato growers appreciated is that the fruits on all clusters, from the lower to the upper ones, practically do not differ from each other in weight.
There is often information on forums that the varieties from Aelita Hundred Poods and Puzata Khata are the same variety, it’s just that agricultural companies sell the seeds under different names. At first glance, this impression is indeed created. These tomatoes are very similar, and not only in appearance. But in fact, Puzata Khata is a completely independent variety, also included in the State Register of Russia in 2013. And if you carefully study the information, there are still differences between the two types. Take the weight, for example, Puzataya Khata’s tomatoes are heavier - 200 - 260 grams; in terms of ripening, they are early ripening, but are inferior in taste. In addition, many gardeners are dissatisfied with the hollowness of the Pot-bellied Hut, which suffers from this drawback much more often than our hero.
Agricultural technology
One hundred pounds of tomatoes are best grown through seedlings. Sowing is carried out 2 months before the intended planting. Before sowing, home-harvested seeds are disinfected in a solution of potassium permanganate and soaked in growth stimulants.
For cultivation, container boxes are used, from where the sprouts in the phase of 2 true leaves are planted into cassettes.
Light, medium-fertile soil is optimal for gardening.
It is better to choose areas where they were previously grown: cucumbers, onions, cabbage or pumpkin. The place where nightshades (potatoes, peppers, eggplants) used to grow is not suitable.
Planting scheme: 3-4 plants per sq.m.
Sowing seeds
Seeds are sown for seedlings in the third decade of March. Before sowing, place the seeds in a gauze bag and dip them in a pink solution of potassium permanganate for a quarter of an hour. Next, add 2 drops of Zircon to 100 ml of water and soak the seeds for 6 hours.
Make the soil by mixing garden soil with humus, peat, add a little superphosphate and ash. Heat the soil for 20 minutes in the oven at 200 degrees.
When planting, deepen the seeds 1 cm, water the plantings with a spray bottle, cover with film, and place in a warm room.
When shoots appear, remove the film and place the sprouts on the windowsill. Water with a spray bottle or watering can. When 2 true leaves grow, pick up the seedlings. Then fertilize with a solution of complex mineral fertilizer.
When to plant seedlings in a greenhouse? When the seedlings are 2 months old, transplant them into a greenhouse. The seedlings are planted in the place where cucumbers, legumes, cabbage, onions, and carrots previously grew.
Features of care
Caring for planted seedlings is standard: watering, loosening, fertilizing, forming and tying up shoots, preventive and protective spraying, regular collection of ripened fruits.
Watering rules:
- Newly planted tomatoes should be watered with a small amount of warm water.
- Plants that have taken root and begun to bloom are subjected to abundant but infrequent watering.
- Bushes that have begun to bear fruit are shed “a lot and often,” allowing the fruits to fill with pulp and juicy elasticity.
After irrigation, the soil is loosened, mulched, and covered with agrotextiles.
Weeding - as needed, fertilizing a couple of times during the vegetative growth period.
Harvesting is carried out regularly: they are picked from the clusters as soon as the fruits acquire their characteristic size and color.
Tomatoes ripened on the bush will be the most delicious. But they can easily ripen in a warm room.
Those wishing to stock up on their own seeds are advised to mark and hold several of the most successful specimens until they are fully ripe.
Advantages and disadvantages, features, differences from other varieties
There are many salad varieties, more than a thousand, and up to half of them are characterized by excellent fruit taste. Therefore, we need to understand why the Hundred Poods variety interested gardening enthusiasts with a rather ordinary taste. Probably, first of all, the exotic shape of tomatoes. Among the advantages of the variety are:
- easy care for a determinate variety;
- quite good yield;
- large fruit;
- ability to ripen in apartment conditions;
- relative shade tolerance;
- normal tolerance of sudden temperature fluctuations;
- increased content of nutrients in fruits.
Among the disadvantages is the need for shaping and tying (although what a disadvantage this is, this applies to more than half of the varieties), as well as imperfect taste. Let’s leave the unusual shape of the fruit out of the picture: after all, it’s not always easy to even wash corrugated vegetables, and aesthetic problems can arise when slicing. Rather, this variety is for those who like experiments, or even exotic things.
Diseases and pests
The cultivated variety is resistant to diseases, but preventive measures must be taken. Before planting seedlings, spill the soil with a solution of copper sulfate. Every year, completely change the top layer of soil in the greenhouse. Ventilate the greenhouse every day. Spray the plantings with phytosporin to prevent fungal diseases.
If the bushes are attacked by parasites, use insecticides or wash the bushes with warm water and soap, ammonia, or celandine infusion.
Pour 200 g of dried celandine into 5 liters of hot water, leave for 2 days, then spray the bushes. You can spray the bushes with the biological product Bitoxibacillin, pouring 35 ml into 5 liters of water.
Positive and negative properties
Tomato 100 pounds has many advantages:
- excellent dessert taste;
- beneficial features;
- high productivity;
- long storage period;
- excellent presentation;
- good transportability;
- ease of care;
- resistance to temperature fluctuations and dry weather;
- resistance to major diseases.
The main disadvantage is the need to form a bush. In this case, both stems and branches should be tied to the support.
Appearance
The appearance of the One Hundred Poods tomatoes is very unusual; one can only say that their shape is irregular. It is compared to both a drop and a pear, but this drop is quite large. At the same time, in the upper part of this drop-pear there are pronounced ribs-folds, which are not very characteristic of tomatoes: among thousands of known varieties, only a few have a similar shape.
A large tomato, a familiar color, but not quite a traditional shape
