Surprise guests and neighbors with unusual tomatoes - the F1 Black bunch tomato

Agronomists around the world are tirelessly working to create new varieties of tomatoes. Every year, varieties appear that are resistant to various diseases, are unpretentious in care and delight gardeners with high yields. Tolerates changes and the appearance of the fruit. Exotic variants of the most unexpected colors appear on the markets.

One of the tomatoes that combines an unusual type of fruit, and immunity to diseases, and an amazing taste is the Black Bunch. The bushes of this hybrid are hung with clusters of small dark purple fruits that resemble large currants. Your guests and households will certainly want to try them.

Description of the hybrid

The Black Bunch tomato is a first generation hybrid.

It appeared on the Russian markets relatively recently and has not yet been included in the register. However, it is actively cultivated by gardeners around the world.

The F1 designation indicates that the Black Bunch is a cross between two varieties. To obtain this unusual hybrid, the cultivated cherry tomato was crossed with the nightshade crops with dark berries growing wild in Chile.

See what the Black Bunch looks like in the photo.

Advice... The experience of gardeners growing the Black Bunch shows that the taste of these tomatoes is sweeter and the color is brighter when grown outdoors. After all, these parameters directly depend on the amount of sunlight falling on the bushes.

Distinctive features of tomatoes Black bunch

The main distinguishing feature of the Black Bunch is the unusual appearance of the fruit. They are dark purple, almost black in color. There is a small red or orange spot on one side.

The taste of the Black Bunch is also different from the classic tomato. It is sweet, with a subtle sourness and plum aftertaste.

It is interesting! Reviews suggest that if you grow a Black bunch in the shade, the characteristic fruity taste of its fruits will disappear.

Specifications

Hybrid Black bunch surprises not only with the color of the berries. Its description will delight even experienced gardeners.

Characteristics of the Black Bunch:

Attention! Manufacturers position the Black bunch as an early ripe hybrid. However, reviews of gardeners who grew this tomato indicate that it is mid-season.

How to grow seedlings

Sowing seeds is done at the end of February or the first half of March. In this case, the seedlings have time to develop enough for transplanting into open ground in the second half of March.

How to properly prepare seeds

Before planting tomatoes, you need to prepare the planting material. This will increase germination and prevent the development of diseases.

Seed preparation for planting:

1. All planting material is sorted out. Remove damaged and dark seeds. To ensure their germination, the seeds are soaked in salted water. Floated instances are considered tainted.
2. The seeds are disinfected - treated with disinfectants, for example, soaked for 20 minutes in a solution of potassium permanganate.
3. To accelerate germination, seeds are soaked in growth stimulants. In addition to store-bought products, gardeners use homemade recipes (for example, a teaspoon of honey in a glass of warm water). In this composition, the planting material is soaked for a day.

Choosing a container and preparing the soil

A huge number of containers are sold, suitable for growing seedlings. Many gardeners make containers for tomatoes from improvised means:

• the top of the cake packaging;
• a cut-off six-liter bottle;
• instant noodle packaging;
• disposable deep plates;
• old deep dishes.

For picking tomatoes, choose containers with a volume of at least 300 ml. The stores sell special plastic and peat cups. You can use homemade containers. Most often, seedling pots are made from disposable cups and cut 1.5 L bottles.

All containers, except for peat tablets and pots, are processed. To do this, it is enough to pour boiling water over them.

Potting mix is ​​sold at a gardening store. It is also prepared independently from peat, turf, ash and humus. It is also disinfected by pouring it with a solution of potassium permanganate or igniting it in the oven.

Sowing seeds

Seeds of tomatoes Black bunch gardeners advise to deepen more than other tomatoes. Therefore, the depth of the grooves for them should be 2 cm.

The grooves for the seeds are made in rows, the distance between which is 3 cm.The distance between the seeds should be at least 2 cm.

Advice... If you want to plant only a few seeds per sample, it is more convenient to use individual peat tablets. The prepared planting material is simply pressed into them. When watering, they increase in size.

Sprinkle the seeds with earth. The soil is moistened with a spray bottle. From above, the container with seeds is covered with glass or foil and placed in a warm place.

Repeated watering is not needed before the seeds germinate. When the soil is waterlogged, the glass is removed.

Seedling care

You need to take care of the seedlings with special care. This is the only way to get healthy plants:

1. Before picking, the seedlings are watered from a syringe or pipette. This is done so that water does not get onto the aerial part of the plant. After transplanting into separate containers, tomatoes are watered from a watering can, also without falling on the foliage. Water is used at room temperature.
2. After germination, the tomatoes are placed in a well-lit place. It is better if the temperature in it is 12 degrees. After a week, the plants are returned to warmth.
3. The film is removed one week after seed germination.While it remains on the plants, daily ventilation is necessary.
4. Top dressing make complex fertilizers. For the entire time of growing seedlings, there should be three of them. The first is done three weeks after picking the seedlings, and the last three days before disembarking at a permanent place.
5. 14 days before transplanting to a permanent place, the seedlings are hardened by taking them outside.

Growing tomatoes

The Black bunch hybrid is planted in a permanent place at the end of May. It is necessary to ensure that by this time the soil has had time to warm up enough. This is especially important when planting seedlings in open ground.

Planting seedlings to a permanent place

Before transplanting, the seedlings are watered and fed. The soil is also prepared - it is dug up and etched with a solution of potassium permanganate.

It is important to choose a place for growing plants in advance. Do not use the beds on which the nightshade crops grew. The best precursors for tomatoes are legumes, cabbage, carrots.

For enrichment, the soil is dug up in the fall and mixed with compost, dry chlorine, ash. Plant debris is removed as they become insect carriers.

Tomato holes are dug in rows. The optimal distance between rows and holes is 50 cm. It turns out that 1 sq. m fits 4 plants. To save space, the holes are staggered.

Directly during transplantation, the plants are removed from the pots along with a lump of earth and placed in holes, which are filled with water. Then the pits with the seedlings are covered with soil.

Tomato care

Tomatoes Black cluster form in two or three stems. So they give the maximum amount of harvest. The more stems, the more fruit they will have and the later they will ripen.

Stepping for the Black bunch is required. When carrying out such a procedure, wilted leaves and stepsons are removed from the bush. Do this in dry weather in the evening.

Watering tomatoes as the soil dries up. In hot summer, 3 waterings per week are enough. On cloudy days, the soil is moistened less often.

Attention! Avoid watering tomatoes on pinch days - this increases the chance of infection.

It is imperative to tie up indeterminate tomatoes. For this, wooden supports or trellises are used.

The first feeding is done 3 weeks after the tomatoes are planted in open ground. For this, complex fertilizers are used. The following dressings are done every two weeks, alternating mineral and organic fertilizers.

There are also non-standard types of dressings. For example, tomatoes are fertilized with iodine, peroxide, yeast, ammonia and boric acid.

Mistakes that a gardener can make

Often novice gardeners make mistakes when growing tomatoes. The most common ones are:

1. Watering directly from a well or tap. This can lead to the death or wilting of plants. The water used for irrigation of cultivated plants must settle in the container for at least a day.
2. Increased watering with signs of wilting tomatoes... This feature is typical for flooded plants. Therefore, before increasing the watering, make sure that the bushes really do not have enough water.
3. Refusal to loosen the soil... When watering, a crust forms on the soil, which prevents air from entering the root system. This can lead to plant death. Therefore, the soil must be loosened after each watering and rain.
4. Watering tomatoes with a garden hose. With this method of watering, water gets on the greens of the tomatoes. This increases the likelihood of plant disease. Tomatoes are watered only at the root.

Diseases and pests

Hybrid Black bunch resistant to all major plant diseasesm.According to gardeners' reviews, he is rarely amazed even late blight... Therefore, these tomatoes do not need to be treated with chemicals for preventive purposes.

To reduce the risks of tomato infection, it is enough to treat the seeds with a disinfecting solution before sowing, and also to disinfect the soil before replanting the plants to a permanent place.

But insects often infect tomatoes Black bunch. To prevent their appearance, the bushes are treated with soapy water so that the composition gets only on the greens, but not on the soil. Prophylactic examinations are carried out weekly, removing pests by hand.

Features of growing in a greenhouse and open field

A black bunch in the middle lane of our country is grown in a greenhouse or under a film cover. It is important to ensure that the tomatoes have enough sunlight in such a room, otherwise they will not turn black. Every day you need to ventilate the greenhouse by opening the vents.

When growing a Black bunch in the open field, choose the sunniest place on the site. In this case, the color of the fruit will be darker and the taste will be sweeter.

Outdoor mulching is mandatory. The beds are covered with hay, straw or foil.

On cold days, tomatoes growing in the open field are covered with foil. The black bunch is a thermophilic hybrid.

Harvesting and application of the crop

Tomatoes ripen in late July or mid-August. The fact that the harvest is ripe is evidenced not by the black color of the fruit, but by the presence of a yellow or orange barrel.

The fruits are harvested with whole brushes, cut with a knife or torn off by hand.

The harvest of the Black Bunch is used for fresh consumption and conservation. Black tomatoes filled with brine change color to brown. Farmers' reviews indicate that fresh tomatoes can be stored until the New Year holidays.

Advantages and disadvantages

Benefits of Black Bunch Tomatoes:

• immunity to disease;
• unusual color;
• unusual taste;
• high productivity.

Among the shortcomings, one can note the need for garter and pinching of tomatoes. Some growers don't like the particular flavor of this hybrid.

Gardeners reviews

Reviews of the Black bunch hybrid are ambiguous.

Valeria Kiryakova, Krasnodar: “The black bunch is an unusual hybrid with black tomatoes. They will surprise households and friends with their appearance. Their taste is sweet, with a fruity aftertaste. The first time, when grown, I could not determine the stage of maturity of the fruits and collected unripe tomatoes. As it turned out, it is not the black color of the fruit that speaks of ripeness, but the red or orange barrel ”.

Inga Guseeva, Kirovograd: «I bought the Black bunch tomatoes because of their unusual color. Grown in the open field in the sunniest part of the garden. Didn't like the taste, too sweet, not tomato. The price is high, I gave 150 rubles for 10 seeds. "

Conclusion

Black bunch tomatoes are a hybrid with unusual fruits. Its berries are black. Sweet plum taste. It is perfect for preparing salads and cold snacks.

Growing a tomato is easy. It is resistant to many diseases and produces an excellent harvest that can be stored for several months.