It is difficult to find gardeners who have never in their lives grown such a heat-loving crop as a tomato. Now every gardener has a real chance to find that type of crop that one hundred percent meets his requirements and wishes. Interesting and unusual varieties that are distinguished by an ideal combination of characteristics include the Red Coal tomato.
Many gardeners may have heard about the “Red Coal” tomato. And those who are not yet familiar with the description of the variety may have seen a lot of photographs of the fruits on the Internet. Tomatoes are visually interesting due to their unique color.
Description of the tomato variety Red Coal, its characteristics and yield
The original name of the tomato variety sounds like Red Charcoal, but in our country it is called Red Coal.
This name is associated with the non-standard color of vegetables, which have an unusual combination of black and red. During the ripening period, their appearance resembles smoldering coals, since the tomatoes have a rich red color below and a black-purple hue on top. The description of the variety classifies it as a medium indeterminate species. Tall bushes can grow up to 1.8 meters and, due to this feature, need staking and pinching. The shoots are characterized by good stem thickness, power and resistance to external factors.
The plant is capable of showing high yield values when grown in open ground and in greenhouse conditions. When planted in open ground, the shoots are characterized by smaller growth, the height of the shoots reaches from 1.2 to 1.3 meters. It is recommended to grow bushes with two main stems.
The characteristics of the Stone Coal variety indicate the possibility of using the fruits fresh and for canning. Thanks to the unusual color, salads from Red Coal tomatoes acquire a special piquancy and unusual appearance. Breeders consider resistance to most varieties of tomato diseases to be an advantage of the variety.
Diseases and pests
Attentive farmers will not encounter serious problems when growing Red Coal tomatoes. The correct care regimen allows you to achieve excellent results in yield without the risk of developing dangerous diseases throughout the growing season.
Despite the fact that Red Coal is a mid-early variety, it manages to avoid diseases such as late blight. This crop has good immunity to cladosporiosis and gray rot.
Crop rotation, frequent cleaning of the beds from weeds and the use of preventive agents can protect planted tomatoes from viral diseases, bacterial infections, and insect infestations.
What characteristics does this variety have?
Red Charcoal is distinguished primarily by its unique color. Among the main characteristics, the following are distinguished:
- general significance;
- high productivity;
- suitability for cultivation in any climatic conditions;
- vsevlas and high bush height, which can be 150 cm.
This plant needs growth regulation, pinching, tying up bushes and supports. Farmers are advised to carry out the first gartering of bushes a month after planting seedlings in quicksand. This is necessary in order to get the best harvest.
Fruit characteristics
The variety is distinguished not only by its bright red color, turning into crimson shades, and closer to the stalk into a blackish-purple color, but also by its rounded and neat shape. The pulp is juicy, pleasant, with a taste of sweetness, with many seed chambers. It has a bright red color and dense bark.
The ripe fruit, which can weigh between 100 and 200 grams, resembles a flaming coal in appearance. Removing a certain number of ovaries during the formation period allows for larger fruits, which is done by many experienced gardeners. Superelite can be stored until the next sowing season.
The fruits are just as suitable for fresh consumption as for canning. They are used for dietary purposes. Tomatoes of this variety have a high content of anthocyanin, so they are useful for cardiovascular diseases and have a positive (counter) effect on the immune system.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the Red Charcoal category?
Any vegetable can have both advantages and, for some unknown reason, disadvantages. Carmine charcoal tomatoes are no different from them. The main advantages of the fruit include its excellent sweetish location, juiciness, versatility, resistance to various diseases, and original appearance. With proper care, you can harvest more than 5.5 kg of fruit from one bush. But in order for the seedlings to develop correctly, you need to put up supports and, if necessary, garter the stems - gardeners consider this to be a disadvantage of this variety.
How to care and harvest
The Drova variety is quite fertile and generally produces a rich harvest. However, you still need to follow some simple rules to significantly increase it:
- This vegetable crop likes loose soil. When growing tomatoes in pots, you should not forget about drainage so that enough water and air reach the root system.
- When grown in beds, plantings should be protected from pests. You can place egg shells or a little onion peel into the hole.
- If the soil is not fertile, you can place humus or peat chips in all the holes. However, before plunging the bush into the hole, you need to pour a layer of soil here to avoid burning the young shoots.
- Then, while the crop is growing, it is enough to fertilize it a couple of times with mineral or organic fertilizers.
- This type of tomato is resistant to diseases and pests. However, you still need to inspect the bushes regularly. And if there is a risk of infection from other crops, you should treat the plant with a soap solution, or place fresh celandine or wormwood on the beds.
- Harvesting takes place in July-August. It depends on the time of planting the seedlings.
Some gardeners, in order to ease the stress that the plant experiences, pick several half-ripe tomatoes and take them home to ripen there.
What rules should you follow when growing seedlings?
Many gardeners give preference to seedlings grown independently, as they believe that the purchased material may be infected with some disease. Unreasonably grown seedlings give more confidence that the plant will be healthy and hardened. But for this it is necessary to maintain the correct temperature conditions and provide the necessary lighting.
The seeds of this variety are sown in accordance with the norm at the end of March, and under some weather conditions the sowing is postponed until the next month. This is necessary so that the seedlings can fully and completely strengthen, the ground warms up, so that weather conditions allow them to be removed into open ground. Before planting seedlings, it is recommended to harden them in the open air.
Do not forget about timely and moderate watering. The water should not be too cold. To ensure that there is no crust on the ground, it is worth regularly loosening the soil. This will ensure active intensification of plants. To preserve moisture under the bushes, you can mulch.
Fertilizing is usually carried out 3 times during the entire haymaking:
- when planting seedlings in the ground;
- during the flowering period;
- during fruit formation.
The composition of the fertilizer for the last two fertilizing should not contain nitrogen, in order to avoid excessive formation of stems and leaves to the detriment of fruit formation.
Resistance to diseases and pests
Due to its early ripeness, the Red Bunch tomato avoids most nightshade diseases. This variety was found to be highly resistant to powdery mildew and late blight.
Late blight can affect the Red bunch if the tomato grows indoors in strong drafts
Therefore, it is important to eliminate drafts in greenhouses and the tomato will grow healthy and bear fruit successfully
In general, the Red Bunch variety has good immunity. In order to prevent the possibility of a tomato becoming infected with various diseases and to prevent it from being damaged by pests, the easiest way is to take simple preventive measures that will help the tomato resist and not get sick:
- When feeding plants, you should carefully observe the indicated dosage and the required balance of minerals in fertilizers;
- carefully pruning, loosening, etc., to prevent physical and mechanical damage to the bushes, which can provoke diseases;
- mulch the soil between rows, which protects it from drying out and also improves the structure of the soil;
- observe the timing of sowing seeds and planting seedlings in the garden;
- maintain the required distance between tomato bushes;
- before short-term frosts in spring and autumn, use late (after 21:00) but abundant watering, which will protect the plants from sudden temperature changes;
- in greenhouses, carefully monitor light and temperature conditions, as well as humidity levels;
- periodically feed tomatoes with mineral fertilizers;
- to protect against most pests, plant sanitary plants next to tomato bushes (for example, mustard, tagetes or marigolds, calendula, herbs, snakehead, parsley, Chinese cloves, etc.);
- regularly inspect plants for infection or insect damage;
- spray the bushes with insecticides and fungicides in case of disease or pest attack.
Prevention of diseases and protection from pests is always simpler, easier and cheaper, saving money and time for the gardener.
Reviews
- Evdokia, 29 years old:
I consider red coal to be a high-quality type. Regardless of what you have to put up supports, tie them up from time to time, and cut off unnecessary branches, the fruits delight with their rich taste, eye-pleasing color, and high yield. - Sergey Vladimirovich, 51 age:
At first I was a little wary. I didn’t want to have excessively tall plants on the site. But I was pleased with its high yield, elegant appearance, and high taste, which the tutti members of my family appreciated. - Lyudmila K., 30 years old:
My friend gave me seedlings of more or less bushes. And from them I got a noticeably larger harvest of tasty and bright tomatoes than from other tall varieties. I will openly grow this variety, which I recommend for other gardeners.
Description and characteristics of the Red Coal tomato variety, reviews, photos
The original name of the tomato is Red Charcoal .
Mid-early, indeterminate, productive variety of tomatoes for greenhouses and open ground.
The bush is powerful, up to 1.8 m high in the greenhouse and slightly lower in the greenhouse - 1.2-1.3 m. It requires tying it to a support and pinching it. The best results were obtained when forming a plant with 2 stems.
Basic qualities of fruits
photo author Mira Tom
The fruits are round, smooth, at the ripe stage the color is similar to smoldering coals - red below and black-violet above, weighing 100-200 grams, sweet, with subtle fruity notes. The pulp is juicy and red. There are many seeds in the fruit. These tomatoes are good for both fresh consumption and canning.
Tomatoes with this fruit color (with anthocyanin) are very useful for diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Productivity : up to 5.5 kg of fruits per plant (with proper agricultural technology).
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The greatest
tomatoes
violet (blue) color, and the oldest. Monstrous, almost intoxicating tomato-fruit relish! It works well as in open ground, so in
greenhouses
Indeterminate. Three-year fruiting. Steady to
get sick
. Srednorosly, serednostil. The color of the fruit is indicated by the smoldering vugilla, weight 120 grams or more.
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Landing rules
Professionals never miss the opportunity to grow tomatoes from their own seedlings. When buying seedlings in stores, there is a high probability of purchasing plants infected with dangerous diseases. Growing your own seedlings from disinfected seed material allows you to avoid this kind of problem. This gives farmers confidence in the quality of their tomatoes.
Red coal should be sown at the beginning or end of March. If necessary, you can postpone sowing to April. The main thing is that by the time the young bushes are fully strengthened, the weather has stabilized, the earth has warmed up and there is no risk of frost.
Gardeners should pay a lot of attention to the air temperature, which should not fall below 18 degrees, so that there are no signs of inhibition of tomato development. After complete pipping, do not forget about lighting, which plays an important role for the vertical growth of seedlings.
You can refuse fertilizing at this stage if the sowing was done in high-quality soil. Growers can help Red Coal tomatoes become stronger by taking them outside a week before transplanting. This reduces the risk of tomatoes dying after transplantation.
