Tomato Overture: characteristics and description of the variety, yield, reviews

The hybrid variety Overture is suitable for lovers of medium-sized tomatoes, suitable both for preparing fresh salads and for marinating as a whole.
Its main advantages are high yield, excellent taste of fruits, their strength, and resistance to cracking. And also - the ability to be perfectly stored: the harvested fresh tomatoes can be eaten when the autumn cold has already hit outside!

Main characteristics of the variety

Early ripening (fruits can be harvested 100-110 days after sowing the seeds).
Suitable for growing both in open ground and in greenhouses.
Hybrid variety - when re-growing from collected own seeds, there is no guarantee of repeating the properties and qualities of the mother plant.
Indeterminant - therefore, during the growing process, constant pinching of the bushes will be required.
Excellent yield: it is possible to collect up to 6 kg of fruit from a bush, and up to 25 kg per square meter with proper care.
Tall variety: in closed ground reaches 1.8 meters in height. When open it grows slightly lower - up to 1.3 m.
The bushes are weakly leafy, with powerful stems, and require obligatory gartering to a support.
The fruits are small, each weighing up to 120-150 g, which allows them to be used not only in fresh salads, but also for pickling as a whole.
Ripe fruits, if necessary, can be left on the bushes without removing them for 10 days.
The texture of the fruits is quite strong; with accidental overwatering, the fruits, like some other varieties, do not crack.
The tomato is not affected by cladosporiasis, veticillium, or tobacco mosaic virus.

Advice!
To reap the greatest harvest, it is preferable to form a bush with no more than 1-2 trunks. Fact!

The trick of this variety is that its fruits can remain marketable for quite a long time. Without creating special conditions (for example, outdoors in boxes), they are perfectly stored for four weeks.
The variety also has one more advantage. Those who grow Overture for sale will be able to appreciate it. The fruits sit firmly on their “legs” in the tomato clusters. And implementing them in this form is much more presentable.

What properties does the Overture tomato have?

The characteristics and description of the variety, which are reflected in the State Register of the Russian Federation, allow us to highlight the following features of the tomato:

refers to early ripening vegetable crops, since the fruits ripen within 100-110 days from the moment the seeds are sown;
bushes of indeterminate type reach a height of 1.5 m;
the plant is strong, powerful, with a small amount of foliage;
fruits on 1 cluster ripen almost simultaneously;
the yield from 1 bush is about 6 kg (24 kg can be harvested from 1 m²);
the taste of tomatoes is sweet;
the pulp contains a lot of dry matter;
tomatoes are covered with thick skin, which prevents them from cracking and allows them to remain intact;
the variety has high rates of transportation over various distances.

After the crop is harvested, it is placed in a cool, dry place.

Among the undoubted advantages of this hybrid variety is its resistance to diseases, including verticillium, fusarium and a number of others.

Pre-sowing preparation

A good effect is obtained by freezing the seeds before sowing in the freezer for 1 week. If you don’t have that much time, it is advisable to put it in the freezer for at least two days.
On the eve of sowing, the seeds will also benefit from soaking. The simplest option is in solutions of purchased biostimulants - “Epina”, “NV-101”, “Ecosila”.
A good effect is achieved by soaking in an aqueous solution of aloe juice (1:2). A week before use, an aloe vera leaf should be placed in the vegetable compartment of the refrigerator so that the beneficial substances in it are activated.
Garden soil, sand, purchased soils from which the soil mixture is prepared for sowing seeds must first be disinfected - at least spilled with boiling water. The best option is to refill with the Fitosporin solution (for detailed instructions, see the instructions for the drug).

Ways to grow tomatoes

The Overture variety feels great under film coverings and in the open air.

At any place where a vegetable is planted, it is necessary to sow tomatoes for seedlings. Seeds are prepared in advance, rejecting low-quality ones. Then the seed material is placed in a gauze bag, immersed in a solution of potassium permanganate for twenty minutes. Similarly, place the seeds in a growth stimulator for two to three hours. If they need to be hardened, they will first stay in warm water for half an hour, and then on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator for a day or two. Treated tomato seeds are ready for planting.

Sowing seeds

It is better to sow immediately in separate containers so that the roots are not injured during transplantation. Peat cups are ideal; with them, the seedlings can then be “relocated” into the soil of a greenhouse or vegetable garden. At the same time, it is important to water the plantings generously in the first weeks so that the peat cups get wet, thereby allowing the plant’s root system to spread along the soil horizons.

Important Terms

In order for seedlings to grow strong and healthy, you need to know and take into account the basic nuances of caring for them.

A location with sufficient light, ideally on window sills facing southwest and southeast.
On too sunny days or in the midday heat (on a southern windowsill), the seedlings should be shaded. Even ordinary sheets of paper installed as a screen between the window glass and young plants will help them not to get burned or become weak.
Sufficient air humidity (at least 60%). Regular daily spraying of seedlings from a spray bottle will help keep it that way.
Careful watering. Seedlings should not be overwatered - this threatens the development of a disease such as “black leg”, and they should not be overdried - the root system will dry out, and as a result the plant will die.
If necessary, pick in the phase of the first pair of true leaves.
In the same phase (after picking) - fertilizing with complex mineral fertilizer in half the dose recommended in the instructions attached to the preparation.
Before planting seedlings in open ground, it would be good to harden them. First, for a very short period of time, then increasing it more and more, the seedlings are taken out into the open air (in the garden or on the balcony). On the eve of planting, it is useful to train tomato seedlings to spend the night in the greenhouse. This way they will get used to the new atmosphere in which they will have to develop in the future, and the process of adaptation to new conditions will be much less painful.

Advice!

As the seedlings grow, it is a good idea to treat them with biostimulants (for example, the drug “NV-101”) once every two weeks. This will activate the plants' defenses, strengthen their immunity and accelerate growth.

Characteristics and description of the tomato variety Overture

Among the high-yielding vegetable plants, one can note the Overture F1 tomato, which belongs to the indeterminate hybrids. In addition to abundant harvests, the variety has many different advantages that give it the right to take its rightful place in the garden bed or greenhouse.

Distinctive characteristics of tomato

Description of Tomato Overture includes the following provisions:

They reach maturity 101-112 days after sowing, which makes it possible to classify the variety as an early ripening species.
The tomato pleases with red round fruits without a green spot on the stem, weighing from eighty to one hundred grams.
Tomatoes have a lot of sugar in their taste, and the pulp has a high content of dry matter.
The tomatoes are evenly spaced on the fruiting branches, which allows them to be sold in bunches.
For ten days, ripe fruits can maintain their integrity without cracking.
After harvest, tomatoes need a cool, dry place to be stored.
The thick skin of tomatoes prevents them from spoiling for two weeks; they tolerate transportation well.
The variety has a total yield of about 24 kilograms per square meter, or six kilograms per bush.

Fruiting increases when the indeterminate is planted in a greenhouse rather than in open ground.

The characteristics of the vegetable plant indicate that the bushes reach a height of one and a half meters or more. The foliage of the stems is average. Tomatoes are resistant to tobacco mosaic virus and fungal diseases - verticillium, cladosporiosis, fusarium.

Ways to grow tomatoes

The Overture variety feels great under film coverings and in the open air.

They are buried one centimeter inside the soil, which has been disinfected with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate. The distance between the holes in the box should not be less than three centimeters, otherwise the seedlings will not have enough nutrients for development.

For seedlings to grow healthy and strong, they need:

water moderately;
feed with superphosphate, potassium salt or mullein;
illuminate with fluorescent lamps during short daylight hours;
keep warm;
dive after two true leaves appear.

As soon as the seedlings are 60-65 days old, they must be transplanted to a permanent place.

Planting and caring for vegetables in open ground

You can plant seedlings in the garden only when the soil temperature reaches ten degrees Celsius. This usually occurs from early to mid-May, depending on the climatic conditions of the region. In small areas, plantings are compacted by placing tomatoes between rows of early cabbage. Of course, the soil for the vegetable must be highly fertile, moist and weed-free.

Since the indeterminate variety has a branched aerial part, tomato bushes are placed at a distance of fifty to sixty centimeters from each other. One plant is planted in one hole, planting up to three or four bushes per square meter.

Planting in a greenhouse and open ground

The scheme for planting seedlings is 40x50 cm, otherwise - 4 plants per 1 sq.m.
By the time of planting in the ground, the soil temperature should remain stable at no lower than +10 degrees.
In open ground, for the first 1-2 weeks (until they take root well), seedlings should be covered, for example, with spunbond.
The soil must be prepared in the fall: improved by applying horse manure or complex mineral fertilizers (in the dosage specified in the instructions for them). As an alternative, you can add rotted manure or compost to the bottom of the planting hole. At the same time, in the future you will have to be more careful with the application of organic fertilizers. It is important not to overdo it with them: otherwise the green mass will develop rapidly to the detriment of fruit setting and ripening.
You will have to tie up the tomatoes immediately and then do this again and again as the bushes grow.
You should start pinching after the formation of the first flower cluster. Below it, all the leaves are plucked out. Leave a maximum of two main stems.
You need to water generously, but not excessively. After watering, ventilate the greenhouse well.
During the flowering period, for better formation of ovaries, it is useful to spray with a solution of boric acid (1 g of the drug per 1 liter of warm water).
To protect against late blight, it would be a good idea to spray the bushes with whey.

Planting and caring for vegetables in open ground

watering during the period of fruit formation, three buckets per square meter;
feeding - the first ten days after planting, the rest every two weeks;
timely weeding by hand or with a hoe;
loosening the soil;
tying up bushes;
forming a plant into one or two stems.

Tomatoes Overture NK F1 with proper agricultural technology give high yields in open ground.