Characteristics and description of the Max tomato variety, its yield
Tomato Max is an innovative and promising tomato variety. This variety belongs to the determinant non-standard varieties.
The popularity of tomatoes provokes breeders to invent new varieties of it, more advanced and strong. This is the variety that Max is. The abundance of tomato varieties leads to the fact that the tastes of consumers are becoming more demanding, ordinary tomato with a very mediocre taste is no longer surprising.
At the present stage of our life, tomatoes should combine high yield, excellent taste, and ease of care. It is Max who meets all of these characteristics.
Characteristics of this variety
In terms of ripening, this variety belongs to the early varieties of tomatoes. Harvest begins 95-105 days after planting the seeds. The bush is semi-spreading, the leafiness is medium, the branching is also medium. The plant reaches a height of 60-70 cm.
The leaves are medium in size, soft green in color, slightly corrugated.
On the branches, simple intermediate inflorescences are formed: the first - over 6-7 leaves, the next - after 1-2 leaves.
Fruits are regular rounded, slightly flattened. The size of ripe tomatoes reaches 110-120 grams. The color of ripe vegetables is deep red. Each vegetable contains at least 4 chambers. The taste of the fruit is excellent: sweet, fleshy, with a pleasant sourness.
The declared description of the variety testifies to the versatility of using tomatoes. They can be eaten fresh and in the form of salads, can be processed into juice, ketchup, sauce. They are used stewed and boiled. These tomatoes look great, pickled or salted in jars for the winter. The high yield of tomatoes makes it possible to use them both for an industrial scale and for private use and cultivation in summer cottages.
A characteristic feature of this variety is the different cultivation methods. The plant can be left without a garter and not pinched. But you can also tie up and make pinching. If, nevertheless, you decide to pinch tomatoes during the growing season, then as a result you will get a much higher yield, larger fruit sizes and earlier ripening periods.
Benefits of Max Tomatoes
This type of tomato has many advantages and benefits:
- Versatility in the use of vegetables.
- Growing versatility. The characteristics of the plant indicate the possibility of its cultivation, both in the open field and in the greenhouse.
- Large-fruited tomato and excellent taste.
- High yield of tomatoes: 460-520 kg / ha.
- Large output of marketable products: not less than 96%.
- Fruit uniformity and excellent presentation.
- Resistant to cracking.
- Quite long shelf life and excellent transportability of vegetables.
- Unpretentious care and the ability to grow in different regions of our country.
- Excellent cold and drought tolerance.
- Reviews of gardeners and summer residents testify to the resistance of this species to various diseases and pests.
This tomato is included in the State Register of the Russian Federation and is recommended for growing in open soil.
Features of planting and growing
Those who planted this variety of tomato testify to its excellent fruiting in the open field and in the greenhouse.
Landing
Like most of its relatives, Max's tomato is recommended for growing through seedlings. To do this, you must first plant the seeds. Seeds are sown in separate containers to a depth of 0.5 cm into moist, loose soil. This is done mainly in the second half of March. To speed up the process of seed growth, containers can be covered with glass.
Next, you need to put the containers in a warm place and wait for the shoots. It is necessary to periodically moisten the soil, if desired, it can be fertilized. When the seeds have sprouted and 1-2 true leaves have appeared on them, the seedlings dive into separate pots. This usually happens 18-23 days after planting the seeds. Dived plants also need to be periodically moistened and tempered.
In order for the seedlings to harden and become strong, you need to take them out periodically to the balcony, or to the street. First, this is done for an hour or two and gradually increase the time of her stay in the fresh air up to a whole day.
Important to remember. Leaving the seedlings for a long time in the open air is only when the threat of night frosts has passed. Otherwise, the plant may freeze and die.
When the frost has already passed and the seedlings have passed all the necessary stages of hardening, you can plant it in open ground. As a rule, this happens when there are already 6-7 true leaves on the seedlings.
The plant is planted in open soil in late May - early June. You can safely plant seedlings in the greenhouse at the beginning of May.
It is best to dig holes in a checkerboard pattern at a distance of 50-60 cm from each other. The wells must be watered and applied with organic natural fertilizer. You can do without fertilization, but with it the plant will grow faster and begin to bear fruit.
Care
Tomatoes are drought tolerant plants. But that doesn't mean they don't need watering. Watering tomatoes is necessary not too often, but abundantly. Much in this matter depends on the weather conditions. If it rains often, then watering is not particularly needed. If it rains very rarely, then watering the tomatoes is necessary 1-2 times a week. The drip irrigation system is best suited for these purposes, although it appeared relatively recently in 2015, but has already managed to gain respect in the circles of summer residents and gardeners.
Those who grew this variety of tomatoes note their good resistance to various diseases and pests. Still, the Max variety, like most other tomato varieties, is susceptible to such a common disease as late blight. To protect the plant, it is necessary to inspect it regularly, and if, nevertheless, it was not possible to avoid infection, you must immediately treat the bushes with special preparations that are sold in every specialized store.
To speed up the fruiting process to achieve greater yields, you can fertilize the bushes. For these purposes, a natural fertilizer is perfect: chicken manure or mullein, or a universal synthetic fertilizer. Only feeding should be done no more than once every three weeks.
When growing tomatoes in greenhouses, you should adhere to the same rules and recommendations as in the open field. Plus, you need to regularly ventilate the greenhouse and maintain a stable air temperature there, it should not exceed 23-25 degrees.
Both in the greenhouse and in open soil, it is necessary to regularly remove weeds and loosen the soil.
The best precursors to tomatoes are cucumbers, carrots, cabbage, greens, and courgettes.
To plant and grow Max tomatoes, it is not at all necessary to have special wisdom, it is quite enough to adhere to standard and simple rules and recommendations.
