Hybrid tomato “Favorit F1”: description of the tomato variety and cultivation features

Every spring, many thousands of summer residents rush from cities to their country houses to try to grow and harvest a rich harvest of vegetables, fruits and berries over the summer. Some will be used immediately, some will be salted for the winter, and the excess can be sold to your benefit. Therefore, experienced summer residents approach each new variety with a certain degree of doubt: will it be able to provide a rich harvest with proper care? It is not surprising that the Favorite tomato variety is of particular interest to many who like to work on the land. Therefore, we will tell you about it in more detail.

Tomatoes “Favorite”: description of the variety

The “Favorite” tomato variety has a very interesting feature. This hybrid has a very low ability to form additional lateral shoots. The developers of the variety claim that about 60% of stepsons do not form a shoot. Or the escape is so weak that it can be neglected. Only 40% of stepchildren require removal. Read about growing tomatoes here.

The plant shows the best performance when forming an indeterminate bush with one stem, which must be tied to a support or trellis. Hybrid with medium fruit ripening. Harvesting from planting seeds for seedlings is separated by a period of 112-118 days .

The bush is covered with a decent number of leaves of gray-green color, medium size, and a slight degree of corrugation. Prompt removal of lower leaves can increase fruit nutrition and also increase overall yield. The tomato variety “Favorit F1” is a hybrid with high resistance to cladosporiosis, tobacco mosaic virus, fusarium, and tolerates light shading quite well.

You can compare the yield of Favorit tomatoes with others below:

Landing

Tomatoes are planted using the seedling method. Seedlings are grown at home by planting seeds in the ground. The soil for sowing seeds must be prepared in advance. Sowing takes place in mid-March. The container with soil in which tomato seeds are planted is covered with film, creating a greenhouse effect. Before this, the soil must be watered with water at room temperature.

Growing seedlings

For seedlings to appear, the temperature under the film must be approximately 25 degrees. When the seeds germinate, the film is removed. At the stage of 3 true leaves, the plants are planted in larger containers, 1 each.

Landing in the ground

Seedlings are ready for planting in greenhouses or ridges 2 months after sowing. Before planting, it is recommended to harden off young plants for 5-7 days.

Characteristics

We plant seedlings

Only residents of the southernmost regions of our country can plant seeds directly in open ground or greenhouses. Therefore, as mentioned above, you usually have to use seedlings. Everything here is pretty standard. First of all, the seeds are treated with a solution of potassium permanganate - weak, barely pinkish. This allows you to destroy infections and viruses that may appear on their surface. The seeds only need to be soaked for half an hour to an hour in a warm solution.

After this, they are planted in the ground. For better development, you need to either buy a special one or make it yourself. A light, nutritious substrate allows you to achieve excellent results. To obtain it, you can mix chernozem with a small amount of sand and peat. Chernozem provides plants with all the necessary nutrients, peat serves as an additional fertilizer, and sand lightens the substrate, allowing the root system to develop faster.

All that remains is to pour warm water on it, cover it with glass and put it in a dark, warm place - the optimal temperature is from +25 to +28 degrees Celsius. After the first shoots appear, the glass can be removed and the container (or containers) placed in a well-lit place. However, it is advisable to protect the sprouts from direct sunlight.

Advantages and disadvantages of a hybrid

Advantages:

• Large size of hybrid fruits;
• Simultaneity of fruit ripening in the cluster;
• Resistance to a complex of diseases;
• Easily tolerates lack of light.

Flaws:

• The need for a greenhouse for cultivation;
• Requirement for tying up the bush;
• Average safety during transportation.

Rules of care

According to the recommendations of breeders, as well as feedback received from gardeners, there are no differences in the methods of growing seedlings and subsequent cultivation of the plant. The only difference is the requirement for enhanced feeding of the bushes with mineral fertilizers.

It is very important to use the correct soil for both seedlings and mature plants in greenhouses. We will tell you about what types of soil for tomatoes exist, how to prepare the right soil yourself, and how to prepare the soil in the greenhouse for planting in the spring.

We must not forget about such agrotechnical techniques when planting tomatoes as loosening, mulching, and fertilizing.

The hybrid has been highly appreciated by gardeners and many of them have been planting Favorit F1 tomatoes for several seasons now, constantly receiving a decent harvest of tomatoes of excellent taste.

Other factors

Fruit coloring

The “traditional” color of tomatoes is red. The color of fruits is due to the presence of lycopene in their tissues, a substance essential for human health. Not only that: tomatoes can be considered one of the few vegetables that become healthier when cooked. Juice and tomato paste contain much more lycopene and other biologically active substances than the same amount of fresh tomatoes.

However, over centuries of cultural use, the “color range” of fruits has expanded significantly. Thanks to the efforts of breeders, today there are tomatoes of pink, raspberry, orange, yellow, golden, white, black, purple and green colors. They don’t just decorate gardeners’ plots and tables: fruits of different colors have different chemical compositions, which in some cases helps solve serious problems. For example, white, green and yellow tomatoes can be eaten by people who are intolerant to red and purple pigments (lycopene and anthocyanins). Finally, there are tomato varieties that have striped fruits. Most of these plants are bred by foreign producers, but there are also domestic ones. As an example, we can name the varieties “” () and “” ().

Separately, it is worth mentioning groups of related varieties that do not differ from each other in anything except the color of the fruit. For example, the fruits of varieties of the "" group are red, pink, orange, yellow and black, and the fruits of the "" group are black, orange and yellow.

Interestingly, white, green and yellow tomatoes can be eaten by people suffering from intolerance to red and purple pigments (lycopene and anthocyanins)

Fruit shelf life

Most plot owners consume fresh tomatoes or use the fruits for homemade preparations. However, few summer residents would refuse to grow tomatoes that are intended for long-term storage. It's no secret that in our country fresh tomatoes (like other vegetables) have ceased to be a seasonal product: even on New Year's Eve they are sold in almost any store. True, in terms of taste, these products are much inferior not only to summer ground tomatoes, but also to fruits grown by gardeners in personal greenhouses. Today, every summer resident has the opportunity to purchase tomato seeds, which are characterized by an extended ripening period. The fruits are picked green or brown, and they reach a state of biological ripeness by December-January. An example is the variety "".

Today it is possible to purchase tomato seeds, which are characterized by an extended ripening period. The fruits are picked green or brown, and they ripen by December-January

Possibility of cultivation in open ground

There are varieties of tomatoes intended for cultivation in open ground and varieties that are recommended to be grown in greenhouses. This division cannot be considered strict. In this case, we are talking, rather, about creating optimal agrotechnical conditions under which specific plants develop and bear fruit better. It is not without reason that in many descriptions of varieties you can read that they are suitable for both open and protected soil. As a rule, these properties are possessed by varieties and hybrids that are resistant to sudden temperature fluctuations (for example, hybrids "", varieties "", "", "", etc.). Thus, gardeners who do not yet have the opportunity to install greenhouses on their plots, today can also choose plants that will delight them with a harvest of tasty fruits even when grown in climatic conditions that are traditionally not very comfortable for tomatoes.

Useful video

A brief overview of the characteristics of Favorit tomatoes:

In the table below you will find links to tomato varieties with different ripening periods: