We grow favorite tomatoes "Grandma's Gift": description of the variety and its characteristics

Tomatoes Grandma's Gift A relatively recently bred hybrid of late tomatoes. Resistant to heat and drought, unpretentious in growing.

This tasty and juicy tomato with late ripening is very popular among gardeners.

In our article you will find both a detailed description of this variety and its characteristics; you will get acquainted with the features of cultivation. We will also tell you which diseases it is most susceptible to and which insect pests to fear.

Tomato Grandma's Gift: variety description

Tomatoes Grandma's gift - a hybrid of the first generation. Seeds from hybrid fruits are not intended for planting next year. Indeterminate plant, tall, 1.5-2 m tall. You can read about determinant, semi-determinant and super determinant varieties here. By type of bush is not standard.

Stem is strong, thick, pubescent, has many leaves, several branches with 6-7 fruits. Rhizome corresponds to all non-standard nightshade - powerful, well-branched in all directions.

The leaf is large, dark green, typical “tomato”, wrinkled, with a light edge. The inflorescence is simple; it is laid over 7 leaves for the first time, and then after every subsequent 2 leaves.

A fruit stem with a joint, well attached to the fruit. By the type of ripening - late, fruits begin to form 120-125 days after germination. Resistant to the main tomato diseases - late blight, powdery mildew, mosaic, cladosporia, fusarium. For varieties having the same quality as disease resistance, read this article.

Designed for growing only in greenhouse conditions, in greenhouses, not suitable for open ground.

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Learn all about the difference between determinant and indeterminate tomatoes.

Specifications

Tomato Grandma's gift has a rich sweet taste with a hint of sourness, a wonderful aroma. The flesh is tender, juicy. Low-ribbed fruits, about the size of a fist, weighing 180-200, sometimes up to 300 g, have a rounded flat shape. The skin is smooth, dense, thin. The color of the immature fruit is pale green with darkening at the stem, in the mature one pink or red. The seeds are evenly distributed in 8 chambers, there is little dry matter.

The table below shows for comparison data on the weight of fruits in other varieties of tomatoes:

Storage is satisfactory if done in a dry dark place. Transportation endures with dignity.

A hybrid was introduced in the Russian Federation (originators: LLC “Scientific Research Institute of Greenfield Vegetable Growing” and LLC “Agrosemgavrish”). Registered in the State Register of the Russian Federation for growing in unheated greenhouses in 2010. You can grow in the whole territory of the Russian Federation, in greenhouses.

Note the refined taste of tomatoes and juiciness. Suitable for use both in fresh form and after heat treatment.. For preservation it will be finely ground. It goes well for processing into tomato paste and juice.

With timely treatments, the yield can reach 6 kg per bush, or about 10 kg per square meter.

With the yield of other varieties you can see in the table:

A photo

The photo shows a variety of tomatoes Grandma's gift:

Advantages and disadvantages

Hybrids are derived with the exception of deficiencies, from the shortcomings can be identified only a large vegetative period and the impossibility of growing in open ground.

Merits:

• large fruit;
• taste qualities;
• high yield;
• heat resistance;
• disease resistance;
• features

Distinctive feature is excellent drought tolerance..

About tomatoes, which not only provide abundant harvests, but also successfully resist the nightshade, read here.

Features of growing

Due to late ripening, the variety of tomatoes Grandma's gift should be sown on seedlings in mid-February into a common container to a depth of 2 cm, in rows with a distance of 2 cm between them.

Immediately after planting, cover with polyethylene, create the necessary humidity to improve the germination conditions. You can use growth stimulants and mini-greenhouses for easy growing. After the emergence of seedlings open. Due to lack of sunlight, an additional light source is needed in winter.. The pick is carried out in the formation of a full sheet.

In late April, you can land on a permanent place. The soil should be heated to 25 degrees, decontaminated. The planting pattern is checkerboard; the distance between plants is 40 cm. Plants should immediately be tied to individual supports or trellis with synthetic fabric.

Watering - moderate, at the root. For irrigation use warm water, preferably rain, defended.. Feeding on schedule (every 1.5 weeks). Loosening is welcome. Weeding as needed.

Read more about the fertilizer of tomatoes and the proper use of various kinds of fertilizing: organic, iodine, hydrogen peroxide, ammonia, yeast, boric acid.

Pasynkovanie primordial, for the formation of a bush in 1 stem. Lower leaves are removed. At the end of the formation of the fruit it is necessary to remove the points of growth ("pinch"). Then wait for the ripening of the fruit and enjoy the taste. If necessary, you can apply mulching.

Diseases and pests

The hybrid is resistant to many diseases of tomatoes grown in the greenhouse, but prevention does not hurt. Read about the ways to do this here. We also offer interesting information about varieties that are not affected by late blight.

From pests (aphids, bears, scoop) required spraying microbiological substances of general action.

Grandma's gift will delight juicy fruits after the end of the fruiting of early ripe varieties. And in continuation of the topic and for expanding it, let me offer you articles on how to get a high yield of tomatoes in the open field, how to do it in greenhouse conditions throughout the whole year and what particularities of early varieties are worth knowing.

In the table below you will find links to varieties of tomatoes with different ripening terms: