Many gardeners are trying to find the most productive and undemanding to care type of tomato, resistant to major diseases. One of the latest achievements of the European breeding is the mid-season Gina tomato.
Due to its characteristics, it enjoys a wide and deserved popularity among summer residents and gardeners. Why did he deserve people's love? The answer is in the description of the variety, which you will find later in the article.
We will also introduce to familiarization the main characteristics, characteristics of cultivation and care, the ability to resist diseases.
Tomato "Gina": variety description
Grade name | Gina |
general description | Mid-season determinant variety |
Originator | Holland |
Ripening | 110-120 days |
The form | Rounded, slightly flattened |
Colour | Red |
Average tomato mass | 200-300 grams |
Application | Universal |
Yield varieties | 4-6 kg per square meter |
Features of growing | Agrotechnika standard |
Disease resistance | Resistant to major diseases |
Let's start with the description of the tomato "Gina". It was withdrawn quite recently, but has already gained wide popularity and popularity. The plant is short, determinant, medium-leaf. The shrub is not standard, up to 50-60 cm high, consists of three stems growing from the root itself. Does not require a garter, formation, pasynkovaniya.
The variety of tomatoes "Gina" is large-fruited, middle-ripening, from the appearance of the first sprouts to the full ripening of fruits, 110-120 days pass. The first brush begins to be laid above 8 sheets, the rest - after 1-2 sheets.
Like most low-growing tomatoes, it is grown in open ground, but also grows well in a greenhouse. The plant is very thermophilic, but in the south of the Russian Federation it can be cultivated in a seedless manner.
Suffering from temperature extremes, so when landing in open ground, he may need additional temporary shelter.
The bush is resistant to late blight, verticillosis, fusarium, root rot, TMM. May be attacked by pests. There is also a hybrid form of the plant: Gina TST. She bred a little later, the Moscow agricultural company "Search".
Tomatoes of the Gina variety are round, slightly flattened on top, of a bright red color, large, slightly ribbed, weighing about 200-300 grams. The number of chambers in the fruit is 6-8. Mass fraction of dry matter per tomato is 5%.
Compare the weight of fruit varieties with others can be in the table below:
Grade name | Fruit weight |
Gina | 200-300 grams |
Gold Stream | 80 grams |
The miracle of cinnamon | 90 grams |
Locomotive | 120-150 grams |
President 2 | 300 grams |
Leopold | 80-100 grams |
Katyusha | 120-150 grams |
Aphrodite F1 | 90-110 grams |
Aurora F1 | 100-140 grams |
Annie F1 | 95-120 grams |
Bony m | 75-100 |
The skin is thick, dense. The taste is sweet, pleasant, with a slight sourness. The flesh is fleshy, soft, aromatic and juicy. Tomatoes of excellent quality, even, beautiful. Well tolerate long-term transportation, long stored.
If these ripe tomatoes are placed in a sterile glass container, tightly closed with a lid and put on the cold, then they will retain their freshness, appearance and taste for up to three months. With proper storage, tomatoes do not lose their commercial quality and taste great for a very long time. Fruiting long, not friendly, stretched. On one brush about 3-5 fruits form.
We will also tell you about all means of protection against late blight and diseases such as Alternaria, Fusarium and Verticilliasis.
A photo
And now we offer to see photos of the Gina tomato variety.
Specifications
Gina is a Dutch variety. Gina was included in the State Register of the Russian Federation in 2000 for growing in open ground, in greenhouses and under temporary film shelters. Cultivation of Gina tomatoes is carried out in the southern regions of Russia, in Ukraine and Moldova. There he grows beautifully without shelter, in the open field. More severe climatic conditions will require greenhouse cultivation.
Tomatoes of universal appointment: remarkably are suitable for production of juice, ketchup, paste. Can be used for salads, pickles. Because of the thick, dense skin, they are more often used for canning, pickling.
The variety is very productive. With proper care, timely watering, fertilizing, from one bush can collect up to 3-4 kg of large, delicious tomatoes. Gina is one of the best large-fruited tomato varieties of European selection.
The yield of other varieties is presented in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Gina | 4-6 kg per square meter |
Long keeper | 4-6 kg per square meter |
American ribbed | 5.5 from a bush |
De Barao the Giant | 20-22 kg from a bush |
King of the market | 10-12 kg per square meter |
Kostroma | 4.5-5 kg from a bush |
Summer resident | 4 kg from a bush |
Honey Heart | 8.5 kg per square meter |
Banana Red | 3 kg from a bush |
Golden Jubilee | 15-20 kg per square meter |
Diva | 8 kg from a bush |
Its advantages:
- unpretentiousness;
- prolonged fruiting;
- resistance to major diseases;
- large fruits;
- high yield;
- great taste;
- good transportability, keeping quality;
- fruits slightly crack when ripening;
- does not need to be staved.
Minuses:
- bush may be attacked by pests;
- suffers from temperature extremes.
Well suited for beginners amateur gardeners who do not have sufficient experience in the cultivation of this crop.
Features of growing
Some seed growers claim that the variety is mid-season. Others write about early harvest. For different climatic conditions, the ripening time can vary from 85 to 120 days. With greenhouse cultivation, ripening will also be early.
These tomatoes are recommended to be grown by seedlings. The optimal time for sowing seeds for seedlings will be the end of March.
About all possible methods of growing seedlings of tomatoes, read the articles on our site:
- growing in twists;
- in two roots;
- in peat tablets;
- no picks;
- on Chinese technology;
- in bottles;
- in peat pots;
- without land.
Plant sensitive to low temperaturestherefore, the bushes are placed in a permanent place only after the soil is fully heated, in the beginning or in the middle of June.
On apt. m place 3-4 plants. Until they get stronger, it is advisable to use a temporary garter to the support. It is not necessary to graze or form a bush. When grown in the southern regions, it is recommended to dispense with a garter, so that the bushes with fruits lay on the ground. It can protect the roots from drying out.
Care for this tomato is simple: watering, loosening the soil, feeding, weeding. The first mandatory feeding of seedlings is carried out 2 weeks after planting in a permanent place. After 10 days, the procedure is repeated. The third feeding - after 2 weeks, and after 20 days - the fourth.
Read useful articles about fertilizers for tomatoes.:
- Organic, mineral, phosphoric, complex and ready-made fertilizers for seedlings and TOP best.
- Yeast, iodine, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, ash, boric acid.
- What is foliar feeding and when picking, how to conduct them.
During flowering shrubs watered about 2 times a week. Watering increase in the period of ripening.
Diseases and pests
Gina is absolutely resistant to the main diseases of tomatoes, but sometimes it can be attacked by pests: aphids, wireworms, cedar beetles, grubs.
Seeing the appearance of aphids on the leaves is pretty easy. The sheet is covered with sticky liquid, curls, turns yellow. At the first signs of plant damage, you can use proven folk remedies (infusion of onion peel, garlic, wormwood or tobacco, soapy water).
If there are too many pests, then insecticide spraying will have to be resorted to. (Spark, Phyto farm, Proteus, Karate). Wireworm, Medvedka, and Khrushchi inhabit under the top layer of soil, destroying the root system. This can trigger a disease, and even the death of a plant.
Pests can only be detected by the general condition and appearance of the plant. It stops growing, fades, leaves turn yellow, fall off. Only processing with chemicals will help here: Zemlin, Medvetoks, Corado, Antikhrushch, Konfidor.
According to reviews of gardeners, Gina tomato - one of the best new varieties. It is very easy to grow, does not require special care. Observing the minimum requirements of agricultural technology, you can get a rich harvest of beautiful tomatoes with excellent taste.
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