Characteristics
“Freken Bock” can be classified as a medium-early ripening variety. The first fruits ripen 90-100 days after the appearance of the first shoots. It can be grown throughout the country, including regions with variable climatic conditions, but planting in a greenhouse is advisable. The plants are compact and grow up to 160 centimeters in height. The stem is powerful, sparsely leafy, the leaves are ordinary, colored green.
The fruits are heart-shaped and smooth. At the ripe stage, tomatoes turn a bright pink-crimson color. There is a yellow spot near the stalk. The average weight of one tomato is 500 grams. The skin of the fruit is thin and of medium density. The pulp is juicy, fleshy, and has an unsurpassed sweetish taste and aroma.
The variety tolerates lack of moisture and hot weather well, without reducing the yield. It is resistant to most common diseases. Tomatoes can be stored and transported over short distances.
From one square meter of planting, you can harvest 10-12 kg of crop. Tomatoes are used to make juices, sauces, and tomato paste. Tomatoes can also be eaten fresh, added to hot dishes and frozen for the winter. But, unfortunately, large fruits are not suitable for pickling entirely.
Advantages
- Good presentation.
- Excellent taste.
- Keeping quality of tomatoes.
- Possibility of transportation.
- Excellent immunity.
- Weather resistant.
Flaws
- Dependence of yield on fertilizing and plant care.
Description of the tomato variety Freken Bock, recommendations for growing and opinions of gardeners
The tomato has long been successfully cultivated by gardeners around the world. Vitamins and minerals contained in fruits have a beneficial effect on human health. Through the efforts of breeders, it was possible to adapt the heat-loving plant to different climatic conditions. A new product from a large agricultural company is the Freken Bock tomato.
General information about the variety
Through the efforts of Siberian breeders, it was possible to obtain a large-fruited variety intended for protected soil. The plant successfully withstands the harsh conditions of Siberia. Characteristics of the variety and description of external features:
- Medium early, the berries are ready for picking in 90–100 days.
- Large-fruited.
- Resistance to lack of moisture.
- Tolerates heat without reducing yield.
- Compact.
- Powerful main stem.
- Sparsely leafy.
- Simple green leaves.
- The height of the bushes does not exceed 1.6 meters.
- The yield is high; under favorable conditions and proper care, 10 kilograms of berries per square meter of planting.
- Stress resistance to adverse weather conditions.
- Good resistance to most nightshade diseases.
- Transportation is acceptable.
- Good keeping quality.
Tomato variety Freken Bock prefers greenhouse cultivation and film cover. The small size of the plant makes it possible to cultivate tomatoes in small greenhouses. Technical data and appearance of the fruit:
- Large, average weight 500 grams.
- Pink-raspberry color.
- Heart shape.
- Smooth.
- Thin skin.
- Medium density.
- Fleshy.
- Juicy.
- Not watery.
- Sweet taste.
- Fragrant.
- Not prone to cracking.
The tomato is used for processing into tomato products. The fruits make tomato paste, juice, and ketchup. The berry is suitable for fresh consumption and adding to vegetable salads.
Recommendations for cultivation
The originator recommends the seedling planting method. Preparation of strong seedlings includes the following activities:
- Preparing a container with fertile soil; it is advisable to organize planting in separate pots or cups.
- It is necessary to moisten the soil in advance.
- The seeds are placed 1.5–2 centimeters deep.
- The soil with the seeds is re-irrigated with warm water from a spray bottle.
- Maintaining a temperature of at least 21 degrees.
- Containers with the first shoots should be in a well-lit place.
- Purchasing artificial lighting if there is a lack of natural sunlight.
- Regular watering.
- Hardening a week before planting in the ground, lowering the room temperature to 15–16 degrees.
Growing seedlings
In Russia, tomatoes are grown through seedlings. To do this, sow the seeds at the end of winter or early spring in special containers. You can make the soil for planting yourself from peat, turf soil and sand, mixing the ingredients in equal proportions, or you can buy it. Before sowing, self-made soil is spilled with a hot solution of manganese or means specially developed for this purpose. This procedure will help destroy all viruses and bacteria. Containers for seedlings are also subject to processing. Seeds purchased from official suppliers usually do not require additional disinfection.
When everything is prepared, the container is half filled with fertile soil and moistened. Then they make shallow trenches in the ground and plant the seeds in them. Afterwards they are sprinkled with earth, sprayed with warm water and covered with a transparent film. The cover is removed daily in order to water and ventilate the future seedlings. The temperature for seed germination must be at least 22 degrees Celsius.
After the sprouts appear, the film can be removed. Place the box with seedlings in a well-lit place; it is advisable to choose a window sill or a warm glazed loggia. It is important to water the seedlings regularly; sometimes it is a good idea to loosen the soil; this can be done conveniently using a plastic fork.
At the two-leaf stage, seedlings need to be planted; experienced gardeners are advised to immediately plant young seedlings in peat pots. Two weeks after this procedure, you can feed the plants with special fertilizers. Before planting, it is better to harden the growing tomatoes, this will provide them with better resistance and faster adaptation.
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How to get your own tomato seeds
If you like the variety of tomatoes, you can prepare its seeds in order to grow exactly the same vegetables in the future.
It is important to know that this method is only suitable for varietal tomatoes; the properties of hybrids are not inherited through seeds. Hybrid plants are obtained by crossing several varieties at once; they completely degenerate in 1-2 years
To independently harvest seeds, the fruits must be removed from healthy, strong bushes. It is necessary to remove tomatoes from the lowest branch, then there will be less risk of getting a cross-pollinated hybrid. The tomato must ripen completely on the branch. After this, the vegetable is cut into slices to gain access to the seed chambers.
The seeds along with the juice are removed with a spoon and placed in a glass bowl. There should be enough juice to completely cover the seeds. After this, the container is loosely covered with a lid. Then they wait about a day until the fermentation process is completed.
As soon as a film appears on the surface and air bubbles begin to form, the seeds are removed, washed in running water, and then dried thoroughly. Store the seed material at room temperature in a paper bag, on which you should write the name of the variety and the date of collection. The bag should be removed until spring in a dark, dry place.
Planting in the soil and care
All gardeners know that a good harvest can only be obtained by following the rules of crop rotation. Tomatoes will grow well after zucchini, cucumbers, cabbage and legumes. Some people prefer to replace the soil every year. Before planting seedlings in the beds, it is advisable to enrich the soil with useful substances such as nitrogen, fluorine, potassium and magnesium.
Important! Experienced agronomists recommend mulching the soil.
Place 3 plants per 1 m2, form bushes with 1-2 stems, over time new shoots will appear on them, they need to be removed. It is mandatory to tie it to a support; for this, when planting, stakes or pipes are dug in next to the hole. In terms of care, Freken Bok is no different from other tomatoes. Plants need light, fertile soil, which must be fertilized periodically, and regular, moderate watering. Loosening the soil and weeding also needs to be taken seriously. Because without carrying out these activities you will not get a decent result.
The harvest is harvested in July; for longer storage, slightly unripe tomatoes need to be picked from the bush. Tomatoes should be stored in a well-ventilated area at a temperature of 10-12 degrees.
New tomato varieties worth planting in 2022
I would like to present them to farmers and gardeners with pleasure. For commercial production and “for yourself”, for greenhouses and greenhouses, for field conditions and for beds - new varieties of tomatoes, not simple ones - with a twist. And who don't let you down. Productive, promising for sale and garden beds.
New varieties of tomatoes 2022: the best new products and selection criteria
By what criteria will we choose? By ripening time, yield, taste, beauty of the berries, length of internodes (the shorter the better), number of clusters (from 6-7) and berries in them. Resistance to major diseases.
What else? What you should pay attention to:
- uniform coloring;
- absence of a green spot on the stalk;
- absence of a pronounced floral scar;
- shelf life of commercial products (LSL tomatoes with a shelf life of 60-70 days or for fresh use);
- content of dry substances in the chemical composition: more than 5.5% suitable for pastes, sauces and other types of processing, less - not suitable, salad type, watery;
- purpose - salad, for canning or universal - the choice depends on whether the product is off-season or seasonal.
Greenback - the variety's inherent tendency to uneven coloring. Appears in the form of flowing green-yellow spots near the stalk.
And a consequence of violations of agricultural technology: green spots form in the heat: the content of lycopene, which gives a dark color, decreases, the amount of carotene, which gives a yellow color, increases.
This is interesting! A special rin gene is responsible for keeping quality, a ripening inhibitor that blocks enzymes that destroy pectin fibers in fruits after picking. The production of ethylene in such fruits begins later. Sometimes its absence on the packaging means the marking “nor”.
As a rule, forms and varieties with low shelf life are distinguished by juicy, tender, often pink flesh, and a bright taste. Breeders are trying to combine incompatible things in transgenic hybrids, but not everyone likes this: we are wary even of ordinary hybrid forms.
New varieties of tomatoes 2022 and hybrid forms for greenhouses and open ground
New varieties of tomatoes for 2022: as a result, promising new products from foreign and domestic breeders. All about promising forms and varieties, detailed characteristics, photos.
Let's differentiate by type: ideterminant, determinant, intermediate. The former reveal productivity in closed ground and are often used for off-season rotation. Determinate ones will perform better in open ground - although there are many exceptions.
Sarah F1
Pink-fruited amazing French hybrid from Clause with the taste of a varietal tomato. Suitable for commercial production of off-season products, including greenhouses. for the second turn. Classic form (Cœur de bœuf, French ox heart), excellent taste, yield up to 22 kg/m2.
Tolstoy F1
A mid-early (mid-late, 100-115 days) Dutch hybrid with a truly Russian name and taste of varietal tomatoes, a fashionable novelty of recent seasons and a favorite of gardeners and farmers.
And it’s not bad for open: in field conditions in a garden bed.
Indeterminate type, up to 2-2.5 m or more in height, with short internodes, bright red regular berries weighing up to 120-130 on the upper clusters, up to 500 g on the lower ones. Productivity from 5.7 kg/m2 or more.
Caste (Supernova) F1
In the Clause collection, this is a pearl among the bush determinate varieties (hybrids, more precisely). An early bush beef tomato with juicy pulp, dense and impeccably tasty.
Productive - about 4 kg per bush, weight - on average 260 g or more. It is grown in greenhouses and in open ground.
Pascal of Picardie
Tomatoes Pascal from Picardy, formerly Crazy Horse Antho, American variety, breeder Dean Slater. A variety with incredible productivity and extremely spectacular fruits became a find of the 2018-2019 season for many vegetable growers, and remained among the favorites for the new 2019 year.
Gardeners' opinion
Good day everyone! I would like to share my experience of growing a new tomato variety, Freken Bock. Positive reviews about the Freken Bock tomato correspond to the description of the variety stated by the originator. The plant manages to produce its harvest in a short summer. The berries are very large and sweet. We managed to prepare excellent tomato juice and paste. I recommend!
Ekaterina Neganova, 55 years old
Good day! I advise tomato lovers to try the new variety Freken Bock. The undemanding plant is distinguished by large, sweet fruits. We managed to grow berries weighing 400 grams.
Anna Zhdanova, 45 years old
