The Pink King tomato has high potential and productivity. Included in the State Register, it bears fruit consistently in greenhouse conditions and in open beds.
| Height | Landing location | Ripening time | Fruit color | Fruit size | Origin | Fruit shape |
| Tall | Greenhouse, Open ground | Mid-early | Pink | Large | Variety | Flat-round |
Description and characteristics of the variety
The Pink Tsar tomato is an indeterminate tall variety. Features of the bushes:
- shoot height 2 m;
- inflorescence simple;
- 6-7 tomatoes per bunch;
- the number of fruitful clusters is 7-9.
The ripening period is mid-early - 98-115 days from germination.
Description of tomatoes:
- average weight 200-300 g;
- bright crimson color;
- the flesh is fleshy, moderately juicy;
- dry matter level 5-6%;
- seed chambers 4-6;
- the skin is durable.
The taste contains notes of sweetness and sourness.
Characteristics of the Pink Tsar tomato
Tomatoes of the Pink Tsar variety ripen in just 100-110 days. Therefore, seedlings can be planted in mid-March (the deadline is early April). Then the first fruits can be harvested at the end of June - beginning of July.
Pink king tomato productivity and fruiting
The Pink Tsar tomato is a medium-yielding variety. When grown in open ground, you can get 5-6 kg per 1 m2. If you plant the bushes in a greenhouse, this figure increases to 7-8 kg.
| conditions | greenhouse | open ground |
| from 1 bush, kg* | 2,0-3,0 | 1,5-2,0 |
| from 1 m2, kg | 7,0-8,0 | 5,0-6,0 |
*Productivity is calculated based on the fact that 3 bushes can be placed per 1 m2.
The yield of Pink Tsar tomatoes is primarily influenced by growing conditions, as well as care features:
- In a greenhouse, you can remove 1 kg more from 1 bush than in open ground.
- Regular watering allows you to get really large and juicy fruits.
- It is recommended to fertilize every 2 weeks - then almost all the inflorescences will set ovaries, which will allow you to achieve maximum yield.
Important! Tomatoes grown outdoors usually have a stronger flavor. Therefore, sometimes you can sacrifice quantity for quality.
Area of application of fruits
The main purpose of Pink Tsar tomatoes is salad. The fruits are used fresh in various dishes:
- salads;
- sauces;
- soups;
- puree;
- juice.
Thanks to their sweetish taste, these tomatoes are perfect for making lecho, squash caviar and other types of canned vegetables. Pink Tsar tomatoes can be pickled for the winter. However, they are not prepared so often, since the pulp begins to turn pale during salting. However, this does not in any way affect their taste.
Resistance to diseases and pests
The variety is highly resistant to fungal infections - late blight and verticillium. The bushes also successfully resist many pests. Therefore, special treatment with fungicides or insecticides is not necessary. But for preventive purposes, you can spray the seedlings, for example, with a 0.5% solution of Bordeaux mixture a week before transferring them to a greenhouse or open ground.
Description of the variety: important features
Pink Tsar was included in the register of breeding achievements from the State Variety Commission in 2010. This is a large-fruited pink variety for any type of soil. Various sources mention the hybrid nature of the tomato. But this is an incorrect statement: the F1 prefix is indicated incorrectly. The originator of the seeds, the Sedek agricultural company, confirmed that the tomato belongs to the reproducible varieties.
Attention! There are few seeds in tomato nests. Perhaps for this reason the variety is sometimes classified as a hybrid.
The calling card of a tomato is its large, thick, dark green leaves with a velvety surface. The bush itself is quite tall. The fruits are tied in clusters of 3-5 pieces. They are of moderate density and fleshy.
The certificate indicates that the crop belongs to the salad category. But tomatoes can be pickled in jars. A strong skin will protect the fruit from cracking. When processed, the tomato mass turns out to be pale.
According to ripening time | By type of growth | By type of use | By growing method | Fruit weight (g) | Productivity (kg/m2) | Ripe fruit color | Fetal characteristics |
| Mid-ripe (100-112 days) | Indeterminate (1.5 m in open ground, 1.8 m in greenhouse) | Salad | For film shelters and open ground | 200-300 | 6-7 in the garden, 7-8 in the greenhouse | Pink | Flat-round, medium-ribbed shape, 6 or more cavities |
Review of the best varieties of tomatoes 2017-2018
For ease of selection, tomatoes can be grouped according to purpose and various characteristics.
For polycarbonate greenhouses
You need to be especially careful when choosing tomato varieties for a polycarbonate greenhouse. They are expected to give their best.
The most productive are modern hybrids with complex resistance to diseases, powerful growth, heat tolerance, and stable ovaries. In healthy greenhouses with good ventilation, fleshy non-hybrid varieties can also be grown.
DJ F1
An early Dutch hybrid with the highest resistance to disease complex and nematode. It blooms successfully and grows even under extreme heat and other stresses. Fruiting is long lasting. Fruits of classic shape and color, transportable, up to 160 g.
Kirzhach F1
Popular disease-resistant tomato from Russian. Combines medium-early ripening with excellent fruit size (ranging from 160 to 500 g). They are transportable and do not burst. From one bush you can get more than 6 kg.
Drive F1
An early ripening hybrid from Semko with friendly returns and high overall yield (more than 20 kg per square meter). Tolerant to nematodes and many diseases. Internodes are close together. Tomatoes are round, leveled - 150 g each. The ovary is stable even at high temperatures.
Russian Tsar F1
A mid-early tomato with pink, spherical fruits, 240 g in size. The clusters are arranged densely, bearing 5-6 ovaries. The powerful bush resists infections well.
Super ed F1
Heat-resistant and disease-resistant hybrid made in Holland. The stem is semi-determinate, strong, not spreading. The average weight of dense tomatoes is 230 g.
Russian Tsar
Super ed
Kirzhach Drive (seed packaging)
Drive F1 DJ F1
For film greenhouses and greenhouses
Indeterminate and semi-determinate varieties and hybrids are planted in greenhouses and greenhouses covered with plastic film.
It is desirable that they successfully cope with sudden temperature changes and infectious attacks.
Scarlet caravel F1
A mid-season hybrid with equalized fruits (130 g each), there are more than a dozen of them in a cluster. Purpose: pickling.
Intuition F1
Popular cluster tomatoes from Russia are perfect for film greenhouses. Many gardeners like to harvest their crops in whole bunches. The fruits do not burst, weigh 100 g each. Harvest dates are from mid-early to mid-ripening. The hybrid is disease resistant.
Bloody Mary
A new early ripening variety with long-term yield (up to 10 kg per bush). The plants are tall. Plum-shaped tomatoes, weighing about 350 g.
Pink Magic F1
An imported hybrid from Sakata with the unique ability to adapt to any region and weather conditions. Plants don't get sick. Salad-type tomatoes, yet transportable. Weight up to 250 g, color pink.
Tolstoy F1
Tall Dutch hybrid with multiple clusters (7 ovaries or more). The size of tomatoes is from 80 to 150 g. The plants do not suffer from cladosporiosis, verticillium wilt and fusarium wilt. According to reviews of many gardeners, the variety is good for pickling, but is harsh in salads.
Bloody Mary
Pink Magic F1
Tolstoy F1
Scarlet caravel F1
Intuition F1
Intuition F1 (packaging)
Large-fruited
Large-fruited hybrids weigh up to 400-500 g, non-hybrid giant varieties are capable of producing record-breaking kilogram-sized vegetables.
Giant Novikova
Many vegetable growers consider this variety to be the standard of salad tomatoes: size from 400 g to a kilogram. The pulp is juicy, sugary, deep red. The bush is tall and, with good care, can bear tens of kilograms of fruit.
King of the Giants
A Siberian variety, beloved by gardeners in many regions of the country. Plants are medium-sized, mid-ripening. The tomatoes are sweet, weighing from 300 g to a kilogram, quite light for a salad type. The harvest from one bush is up to 8 kg.
Malvaria F1
New mid-early hybrid from Semko (improved Malvasia). Tolerant to a wide range of infections. It has an excellent weight for a hybrid - 300 g or more. The yield is very high - more than 35 kg per square meter.
Tungus
St. Petersburg agro variety with fruits measuring 400-1000 g. Gardeners really like the sugar content of the pulp; the only drawback is that the first ovaries are not very even, ribbed.
Wonder of the earth
Siberian giant variety, capable of reaching a weight of 1200 g. Average size - 390 g. According to gardeners, the tomatoes are very sweet and fleshy, the color of ripe raspberries, ribbed. The bushes are tall. The plants are unpretentious, but need tending and protection from diseases.
Wonder of the earth
Giant Novikova
King of the Giants
Malvaria F1
Tungus
Sweet
Sugar content increases in the sunny season with little precipitation, as well as under the influence of fertilizing with mineral elements, due to treatments with biostimulants (humates, Epin Extra, NV-101, Novosil, etc.). The taste of sweet-fruited tomatoes exhibits a genetically determined predominance of sugars over acidic components.
The sweetest varieties of tomatoes - review on our portal.
Unfortunately, such varieties are rarely early-ripening, long-lasting, or disease-resistant. Vegetable growers note that simple varieties are the most delicious, tender and more sugary than hybrids. Breeders' efforts are aimed at improving the taste of hybrid forms that are more resistant to disease.
Bombay F1
Hybrid pro with excellent taste of pink fruits weighing about 300 g. Not affected by Alternaria, root and crown rot. Ripening dates are early and mid-early.
Crimson Dawn
Tall variety from the Vkusnoteka series. Ripening time is average. Raspberry tomatoes, heart-shaped, up to 400 g.
Real jam
Branded mid-early variety from ago. The bush is tall but compact. The fruits are elongated, pointed, orange, with a small number of seeds.
Pudovik
A meaty and sugary Siberian variety with high, stable yields. Ripens in medium terms. Large “hearts” weigh on average 300 g, record-breaking ones weigh up to a kilogram. Stem height is moderate.
Three sisters F1
A new author's hybrid with a sugary, delicate consistency and thin skin. Weight 200 g. Bushes grow up to one and a half meters. Ripening is medium early, friendly.
Pudovik Bombay F1
Crimson Dawn
Three sisters F1 (pack)
Cherry
Cherry tomatoes grow well in closed soil conditions and are disease-resistant. They begin to ripen early and are suitable for harvesting in whole bunches. Tall cherry varieties and hybrids bear fruit until the end of the season.
Cherry
This is a whole series of multi-colored varieties from. There are 2-3 dozen rounded fruits in a brush, 20 g in size. Their color can be red, pink, black, yellow.
Mirabella
An exotic variety with fragrant fruits the color of butter, weighing 25 g. The plants are tall and disease-resistant.
Blue bunch F1
An original offer from the Russian: exotic ink-colored tomatoes, 25 g in size. The bushes are tall, the ripening period is mid-early.
Sweet bunch
Early indeterminate variety. Each brush bears up to fifty ovaries. The average size of one “cherry” is about 15 g. The pulp is dense and sweet.
Cherry Maxik F1
Early ripening tall hybrid from . The brushes are arranged densely, the yield is about 19 kg per square meter. The tomatoes are deep red, round, weighing 25 g. Highest resistance to a range of infections.
Sweet bunch of Cherry Maxik F1
Cherry Mirabella
Blue bunch F1
Not requiring stepsons
Side shoots on bushes take away nutrition from the fruit, so regular pinching is an important agrotechnical technique, especially for tall tomatoes. The efforts of modern breeders are aimed at breeding forms with weakened branching.
The first achievements in this area have already appeared, including from Russian scientists. They have earned rave reviews from gardeners.
Galaxy F1
Medium-sized bushes do not require shaping and are highly resistant to diseases. The timing of the first collections is mid-early. The clusters are arranged densely, carrying 6-7 raspberry tomatoes weighing up to 140 g.
Gunin F1
This hybrid has a genetically inherent ability for reduced branching. The stems are not too long and have a determinate growth pattern. The ripening period is mid-early. The tomatoes are spherical, weighing 90-130 g. Highly resistant to a range of diseases and nematodes.
Red Arrow F1
This is a unique achievement of domestic selection, a winner of many exhibitions. Branching is weak. Semi-determinate plants successfully cope with stress, shading and infectious attacks. Many brushes are formed at an accelerated pace; each contains up to a dozen ovaries, filling up to 130 g.
Favorite 6 F1
This indeterminate variety is characterized by a small number of stepsons. It is medium-early, shade-tolerant and disease-resistant. The tomatoes are very large for a hybrid - weighing 250-400 g; they ripen in one bunch at the same time.
Galaxy F1
Gunin F1
Red Arrow F1 (Photo by: AlexanderS)
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety, features of agricultural technology
Breeders focus on the tasting characteristics of the tomato. The tender flesh has a moderate sweetness in taste. The sourness is almost not noticeable. The fruits are fragrant.
These are not all the advantages of tomato:
- Large, even size on one brush, as in the photo.
- Excellent presentation. High percentage of quality crop yield from the total mass. Tomatoes do not crack when exposed to excess moisture and can be stored for up to 3 weeks. at room temperature and tolerate transportation normally.
- Possibility of harvesting in an unripe state. The tomatoes will reach the desired condition during storage.
- Versatility in choosing a growing location.
- Immunity to verticillium.
The main disadvantage is considered to be productivity. Record figures in ideal conditions are only 8 kg/sq.m. Procedures for caring for tall stems create peculiar inconveniences. Formation, elimination of stepsons, securing to a support are important manipulations for the harvest.
Tomato is grown by seedlings. Sowing seeds 55-65 days before transferring seedlings to the ground. In temperate climates this is the beginning of April. In this case, you will harvest the crop in the greenhouse in the first half of June, and in the open-air garden in July.
Tomatoes for the greenhouse: the best varieties according to reviews from gardeners in 2017
At the beginning of the planting season, some gardeners think about what variety of tomatoes to choose for growing in a greenhouse this time? The reason for the hesitation may be different - some were not satisfied with the yield or taste of the fruits grown last year, others want to try something new.
To make the choice easier, let’s try to determine which varieties of tomatoes, according to user reviews in the past 2022, are the best:
- tasty;
- sweet.
The most delicious varieties of tomatoes
Taste preferences, as you know, vary from person to person. This also applies to assessing the taste properties of tomatoes. However, the juiciness of the fruit (not to be confused with “wateriness”), its aroma, the presence or absence of a harmonious combination of the main taste components in it, is perceived by the vast majority of people in approximately the same way and is a fairly objective basis for classifying the fruit as tasty or not.
According to reviews from most consumers, many domestic tomato varieties are superior to foreign ones in this parameter, including varieties from such famous breeding companies as Bejo Zaden or SYNGENTA AG, although they are inferior to them in a number of other characteristics (yield, transportability, disease resistance, etc.).
If you try to summarize the reviews, then the following are often called “delicious” varieties:
- Dad pink;
- Monomakh's hat;
- Giant pink;
- Budenovka;
- Rosemary pound pink.
These are large-fruited varieties, excellent for fresh consumption, as well as for making salads and juice.
Note that pink varieties of tomatoes are on average less productive than red ones, but according to most people they have better taste. This list, of course, does not exhaust the “tasty” varieties, and other consumers may have their own favorite types of tomatoes.
