Tomato Minusinsk glasses: description, reviews and photos

Description of the tomato variety Minusinsk glasses

Minusinsk glasses are tall, indeterminate varieties that are suitable for erection under film cover. The plant is mid-season, with a long fruiting period. Forms a powerful, spreading bush with dark olive leaves and small lemon flowers collected in racemes.

A large number of stepsons appear on the plant. Therefore, so that they do not take away the nutrients necessary for the formation and ripening of fruits, they are carefully broken out.

Important! If you follow simple rules, fruiting occurs in mid-July.

Tomatoes of the Minusinsk glass variety have several varietal types that differ in skin color.

Tomato Minusinsk glasses pink - a mid-season variety with large oval fruits, weighing up to 400 g. The pulp is dense, low-seeded, non-watery. The taste is sweet and sour, there is a bright tomato aroma. The dense pink skin does not crack when fully ripe, thanks to which the crop retains its presentation for a long time.

The variety is tall and needs support and staking. To obtain a generous harvest, the plant is grown in 2 trunks. Due to their good taste, tomatoes are used fresh; they are also suitable for making sauce, juice and adjika.

Tomato Minusinskie glasses orange is a tall variety that produces plum-shaped fruits weighing up to 400 g. To ensure high yields, timely watering, fertilizing, and removal of shoots are carried out. Thanks to their beautiful bright peel, the fruits are used for canning and preparing vegetable salads. The species is resistant to diseases and pests and tolerates sudden changes in temperature.

Important! Because of the orange peel, tomatoes are recommended for people who suffer from allergies.

Red Minusinsk glasses tomatoes are a mid-season table variety. The plant is indeterminate, an adult bush can reach 2.5 m. Red, plum-shaped fruits weighing 200 g have juicy, aromatic pulp. Due to their good taste, tomatoes are used for making juice, sauces, adjika and for whole preserves. The variety is grown in open and closed ground; for a good harvest, the bushes are formed into two stems.

Rules for planting and care

To grow tomatoes in an unheated greenhouse, seeds are sown in the third ten days of February or the first ten days of March. For open ground, sowing of seedlings is done in late March - early April.

Planted tomatoes need care - watering, fertilizing, mulching the soil, removing weeds, protecting against diseases and pests. Immediately after planting, the stems are tied to a trellis using synthetic materials that do not cause rotting.

Important! Comfortable temperature conditions for tomatoes: +24…+28 °C during the day and +18…+22 °C at night. At a temperature of +35 °C, plants slow down and flowers begin to fall off.

During the ripening of the crop, it is necessary to pay attention to fertilizing. For long-term fruiting of indeterminate varieties, which include, according to the description and photo, the Minusinskie Glasses tomato variety, the main stem is lowered from the support.

Sowing seeds for seedlings

Before sowing, it is advisable to sort the seeds by density in a 3% salt solution (1 tbsp per 1 liter of water). Then rinse in running water and soak for 20 minutes in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, wash again.

Attention! Seeds that have undergone preliminary preparation at seed companies are green, blue or turquoise in color. They cannot be soaked before sowing; they may not sprout.

Soil for sowing is prepared from turf soil, humus and peat mixed in equal proportions. To make the substrate light, add river sand (1/5 of the total volume) and a handful of wood ash. The soil mixture is steamed or calcined for disinfection, and spilled with a fungicide solution (Fitosporin, Fundazol, Trichodermin, etc.).

The procedure for sowing seeds and growing seedlings:

• The seeds are laid out in a row at a distance of 1 cm or planted in separate glasses.
• A layer of soil 0.5-1 cm thick is poured on top and the crops are covered with film.
• Place in a warm place with a temperature of +24 °C.
• Sprouted seeds should sprout on day 3, and unsprouted seeds on day 5-6.
• The seedlings are freed from shelter and placed on a bright windowsill or under additional lighting lamps.
• The temperature is lowered to 16 °C for 5 days, then raised again to +20-22 °C.
• Moisten the soil as it dries.
• Seedlings from a common container or cassette are planted into separate containers, in the phase of two true leaves.

Approximately 3 weeks after the first picking, when the roots of the seedlings completely fill the volume of the containers, a second transplant is carried out into larger containers. To prevent the development of root rot, a tablet of biological fungicide is placed in each container.

Transplanting seedlings

When the seedlings have 8 true leaves, 60 days after sowing they can be transplanted to a permanent place. By this time the soil and air should warm up to +18 °C.

Advice! In the prepared soil in the garden bed, holes are prepared 12 cm deep at a distance of 50 cm. For 1 sq. m place 3-4 plants in a linear or checkerboard pattern.

The seedlings are transplanted with a ball of earth, watered and mulched the soil around the bushes with peat, straw or mown grass. As mulch after watering, you can use humus in an equal mixture with turf soil and a handful of ash.

Tomato care

According to reviews and photos, many factors influence getting a good harvest of the Minusinsk glasses tomato variety:

• temperature;
• soil and air humidity;
• feeding;
• formation of bushes.

First of all, it is necessary to remove the stepsons.

Without pinching, tomatoes can grow greatly. New shoots grow from the axil of each leaf to the detriment of fruit formation. Indeterminate varieties, which include Minusinsk glass tomatoes, have unlimited growth; they are formed into one stem, removing all the stepsons, and tied to a trellis.

Tomato requires constant moisture in the root layer of soil. The need for watering increases during flowering, fruit set and formation. The bushes are watered 2-3 times a week at the same time. Irrigation rate is from 5 to 15 liters per 1 sq. m.

Attention! In cloudy weather, reduce the amount of water or switch to single moistening for 7 days. If there is a lack of moisture, flowers and ovaries will begin to crumble.

Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers are required to set flower buds. The lack of these elements leads to the formation of weak flowers and the absence of ovaries. Regular watering will contribute to good plant nutrition. Once every 2 weeks it is useful to apply a complete complex fertilizer consisting of:

• urea (5-10 g);
• superphosphate (20-30 g);
• potassium sulfate (15-20 g) per 10 liters of water.

Air humidity affects plant pollination; for tomatoes it should be in the range of 50-70%. At low humidity, pollen is sterilized, and at high humidity it swells and also becomes incapable of fertilization. Even if self-pollination was successful and ovaries formed, this does not guarantee a high yield. Unripe fruits may fall off due to high air temperatures or lack of water in the soil.

Weakened plants are more susceptible to various diseases - rot and late blight. As a preventive measure, weekly treatments with Fitosporin are carried out. To help tomatoes against shedding flowers, it is recommended to spray with a solution of boric acid (1 g per 1 liter of water).

Pros and cons of the Minusinsk glasses tomato variety

The Minusinsk glasses tomato, like any plant, has good and bad qualities. The advantages include:

• stable harvest - up to 6 fruits ripen on one flower cluster;
• pleasant taste and aroma;
• versatility in use;
• good commercial appearance;
• long fruiting period;
• resistance to diseases.

Many gardeners consider high sugar content to be a disadvantage, but for many summer residents this is a big plus.

Diseases and pests

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Minusinsk tomatoes are resistant to many diseases that affect plants of the nightshade family. Top and root rot are dangerous for them. You can cope with them with the help of phytosporin. To combat diseases, it is recommended to first remove diseased plants and then spray healthy ones.

This tomato variety is also susceptible to late blight. To combat it, you need to treat crops with copper-containing preparations.

Read about how to effectively combat late blight on tomatoes in this article.

Manifestation of late blight.

Among the pests, the most dangerous for this crop are long whiteflies, spider mites, mole crickets, and slugs. To get rid of them, plants need to be sprayed with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Before the flowering period of the bushes, insecticides can be used to control pests.

Growing

To obtain an early harvest, the Minusinsk glasses tomato is grown in seedlings. Before sowing, the seeds must be prepared. To do this, they are soaked in a weak solution of potassium permanganate or in aloe juice diluted in water in equal parts.

Often seed producers sell seed that has already been processed. It has green, turquoise or blue colors. Such seeds are not processed, as their germination rate is reduced.

Important! Before purchasing Minusinsk glasses tomato seeds, you need to familiarize yourself with the varietal characteristics, read reviews and view photos.

Growing seedlings

Tomatoes prefer to grow in nutritious, light soil. You can buy it in the store, or you can mix it yourself. To do this, take peat, humus and turf soil in equal proportions, add fine sand and ½ tbsp. wood ash. Everything is thoroughly mixed and calcined in the oven for disinfection.

Rules for sowing seeds:

1. To prevent fragile seedlings from being stressed after picking, it is better to grow tomatoes in separate containers.
2. Plastic or peat cups are filled with nutritious soil.
3. The seeds are buried 1 cm in moist soil.
4. The containers are covered with glass and placed in a warm place.
5. After seed germination, the shelter is removed and the containers are moved to a cooler room.
6. If the seeds were sown in separate cups, then the picking is carried out a month later in a larger pot.
7. A week before planting, the seedlings are hardened off. This procedure will help the plant get stronger and quickly take root in a new place.

Important! Germinated seeds germinate on the 3rd day, but not germinated on the 5-7th day.

When the seedlings grow to 10 cm, develop strong roots, and produce 6-7 true leaves, they can be transplanted into a prepared bed.

Landing rules

Since the Minusinsk glasses tomato is a tall variety, for good growth and development, the interval between plantings should be 50-70 cm.

Landing rules:

1. Deep holes are made in the prepared area.
2. A pinch of wood ash is added to each hole and spilled generously.
3. The seedlings are carefully removed from the container and placed in the planting hole up to the first true leaves.
4. The plant is sprinkled with earth, the top layer is compacted and mulched. Mulch will retain moisture, stop weed growth and act as an additional organic fertilizer.

Watering and fertilizing

Watering plays an important role in caring for tomatoes. Since they do not like regular, but abundant watering. Before flowering, irrigation is carried out once a week as the top layer dries. During fruiting, watering is increased, since due to lack of moisture the skin on the fruit may burst, despite the fact that the variety is resistant to cracking. To prevent diseases from attaching to the plant, wood ash is added to the water.

Important! Irrigation is carried out strictly at the root, with warm water, in the morning or evening hours.

After 2 weeks, the planted seedlings are fed. To do this, you can use a mineral complex and organic matter: manure is diluted with water in a ratio of 1 to 9 and 20 g of superphosphate is added. For each bush, use 1 liter of working solution.

During flowering, tomatoes are fed with phosphorus and potassium (wood ash or green fertilizer). If the plant begins to shed its inflorescences, it means it lacks boron. Spraying the bush with boric acid (1 g per 1 liter of water) will help correct the situation.

Pinching and tying

Tomato Minusinsk glasses form a large number of additional shoots. And in order to get large fruits and a rich harvest, it is necessary to get rid of them, as they draw out nutrients, thereby stopping the growth of fruits and their ripening. Stepping is carried out regularly, in cloudy weather.

The variety is tall, so it requires garter. If this is not done, the bush may break off under the weight of the fruit.

Formation

To grow a large harvest, many gardeners grow Minusinsk glasses tomatoes with one or two stems. When grown in the southern regions, you can leave three stems on the plant, but the fruits will be smaller and not so juicy.

According to gardeners, in order to get an early harvest, it is better to form the bushes into one stem, leaving 3-4 flower clusters on it. All stepsons, especially those that appear under the hands, are pinched.

When forming a plant into two stems, a strong stepson is left, which appears under 1 flower cluster.

Protection from diseases and pests

The Minusinsk glasses tomato is resistant to diseases and pests. But if agrotechnical rules are not followed, fungal and viral diseases can settle on the plant, such as:

1. Late blight is a common fungal disease. The disease appears in damp, cool weather. Dark brown stains appear on the foliage and fruits, which increase in size without treatment. Affected leaves darken and dry out, and the fruits rot and fall off. Broad-spectrum fungicides will help get rid of the fungus.

2. Viral mosaic - the disease is transmitted by aphids, which appear in hot, dry weather. When the virus appears on the foliage, numerous dark spots of irregular shape appear. The disease is incurable, so when the first signs appear, the bushes are removed from the ground and burned. If this is not done, the disease can quickly destroy neighboring plants.

Features of cultivation, planting and care

photo author Tatyana Seredenina

The photo shows tomato seedlings. Pink glasses from Minusinsk.

Sowing the seeds of this variety of tomatoes for seedlings is carried out 60-65 days before the intended planting in the ground. Seedlings dive at the stage of two true leaves. When planting seedlings in a permanent place per 1 sq. up to 4 plants are placed per meter of plot.

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If you grew Pink Glass tomatoes from Minusinsk, please write whether you liked them or not. How did this variety perform in your climate conditions? What was the yield and taste of the fruit under your conditions? If possible, attach a photo of the entire bush or individual tomatoes you grew to your comment. Thank you!

Your reviews of the Minusinsk Pink Glasses tomato and additions to the description will help many gardeners evaluate this variety more objectively and decide whether it is worth planting or not.

This is a natural variety of tomato. Therefore, we recommend taking seeds from a ripe fruit and using them for planting in subsequent seasons.

Features of pink tomato from Minusinsk

Despite the fact that the fruits of this variety have a large weight and diameter (they can reach a weight of one and a half kilograms), the bushes of this hybrid are quite thin and brittle. You need to know how to properly tie it to a trellis immediately after transplanting it to a permanent growing location, be it a greenhouse or open ground. Otherwise, their stems may break under the weight of ripening fruits. Also, to obtain a good harvest, the bushes must be pinched, forming only one stem. Otherwise, the gardener may receive a small amount of fruit, and the tomatoes themselves will not be sweet and too small for this variety.

Country of origin and growing regions

The presented hybrid was bred in the 19th century by the gardener Starukhin. He grew it in the Minusinsk Basin in Siberia, which is how the hybrid got its name. The variety turned out to be resistant to Siberian climatic conditions. It quickly became widespread outside the region.

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The tomato fruits bred by Starukhin weighed 745.5 grams and their diameter was 43 centimeters. In those days it was an absolute record.

Nowadays, this variety, like the Klusha, Danko and Kumato varieties, is successfully grown in all regions of Russia. In most areas it can be grown in open ground, only in the northern regions with the most severe climate it is recommended to plant it in greenhouses. To determine the timing of planting tomatoes, gardeners often rely on the lunar calendar, thanks to which they can understand in which month to plant seedlings.

Advantages and disadvantages

Minusinsk tomatoes have many advantages over other varieties. These include:

• high productivity;
• good taste of fruits and their large size;
• the ability to grow this variety both in greenhouses and in open ground;
• fruit resistance to cracking.

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It should be noted that the fruits of the Minusinsk tomato contain a large amount of vitamins and useful minerals. They contain vitamins A, B, C, K, as well as iodine, calcium, and potassium. Eating two of these tomatoes a day will cover the body’s daily needs for all useful elements and vitamins.

The disadvantages of this variety include complex plant agricultural technology. Bushes of Minusinsk tomatoes require tying up after planting in a permanent place of growth; they are not resistant to temperature changes, require regular watering, weeding and knowledge of how to plant completely.

Tomato planting scheme

Tomato care

Planting in a greenhouse in most regions is carried out in May, but the exact timing depends on the climate and weather. For example, in the regions of the North-West, many people plant tomatoes only from June 1 to June 7-10, when there is no need to take risks, and the likelihood of frost returning is minimal.

But even in this case, it is recommended to use non-woven materials to protect young plants, which will also come in handy at the end of summer when the nights are cold.

Planting scheme for the Pepper-shaped Long Minusinsk variety - no more than 4 bushes per square meter (provided the plant is formed into one stem). If you plan to grow a bush with two stems, then it is better to plant three bushes per square meter.

When planting, pegs are installed so that the plants can be tied up later without disturbing the roots. The first 6-8 days after planting the minusinsk plant are not watered to give the tomato time to adapt normally. In the future, they water twice a week, monitoring the level of soil moisture, air in the greenhouse and the condition of the plants themselves.

ON A NOTE! Watering tomatoes through bottles dug into the ground gives excellent results. Moisture will enter the soil, to the roots of plants, while the air humidity in the shelter will not increase.

It is also convenient to use drip irrigation systems for greenhouses. Gardeners also benefit from furrows and grooves into which water is poured (and to prevent the moisture from quickly evaporating, it is necessary to mulch). Tomatoes, like many other garden crops, are watered only with warm, settled water. You can place barrels painted dark in the area so that the water in them heats up faster.

Organic matter and mineral fertilizers are used for fertilizing.

On hot days, it is especially important to fertilize correctly, observing the doses of elements, combining the procedure with watering. The soil must be well moistened, otherwise the roots may get burned. It is ideal to spray plants on hot days using highly soluble complex fertilizers or humates

It is ideal to spray plants on hot days using highly soluble complex fertilizers or humates.

Approximate feeding options for the Pertsevidny long Minusinsky variety:

• mullein (diluted with water) and nitrophoska (one tablespoon each);
• mullein, superphosphate, potassium sulfate;
• nitrophoska and potassium humate;
• superphosphate.

Four such feedings will be quite enough, but it is also necessary to carry out foliar feedings using boric acid, iodine, and yeast.

For the prevention of diseases, Bordeaux mixture, ash infusions, copper-containing compounds, and Fitosporin are used. Compliance with the watering schedule, the optimal level of air humidity in the greenhouse (no more than 70%), timely treatment of the bushes will protect tomatoes from various infections, and there will be no need to use toxic chemicals.

When diseases appear, the affected plants are immediately removed, burned, and the soil in the hole is spilled with a saturated solution of potassium permanganate.

The fruits of this variety begin to ripen in July, and fruiting continues until autumn. If the tomato is provided with adequate nutrition and care, the harvest will be good. It is advisable to pick the fruits in the technical ripeness phase, that is, green, so that other clusters can form on the bush. Only those fruits from which the seeds are supposed to be collected are left to ripen until red.

The collected green tomatoes of Pertsevidny Minusinsk ripen well at home, and they can be stored for a long time in the pantry or near the balcony.