Advantages and disadvantages of the pink flamingo tomato variety: description, photo, characteristics and growing features

What is interesting variety of tomatoes Pink Flamingo and why it is considered prestigious to have it in my garden?

First, these tomatoes are very beautiful and can become a real decoration of your site. Secondly, they are tasty and healthy.

Growing this variety is not so easy, but, having an idea of ​​its features, you can cope with it.

And in this article we will tell you in detail about what the Pink Flamingo variety is, what are its characteristics, what diseases it is prone to and what subtleties of agricultural engineering should be taken into account.

Tomatoes Pink Flamingo: variety description

Tomato variety "Pink Flamingo" was included in the State Register in 2006. Originator and patent owner of tomato variety “Pink flamingo” company “Search”.

The grade is recommended for cultivation in personal subsidiary farms of the North Caucasian region in an open ground and greenhouses. According to reviews of gardeners brings a good harvest in the Central region of Russia, in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus. Seeds of tomato "Pink Flamingo" have passed the state certification of confirmation of the purity of the variety.

Pink Flamingo Tomato is a variety, not a hybrid. Seeds collected from fruits from the second or third hand in the stage of full maturity, suitable for collecting and further planting.

Tomato "Pink Flamingo" characteristic and description of the variety: mid-season variety, marketable fruit maturity occurs 110-115 days from the date of planting. Under good weather conditions, the fruits ripen for 90-95 days. "Pink flamingo" is characterized by a long period of formation of fruits.

In temperate climates, crops are harvested until October.. The bush is not limited in growth, indeterminant type, reaches up to two meters in height, is formed in 1-2 stems. What are the determinant varieties read here. Requires a strong support, garters for pegs or trellis.

The leaves are medium sized, carved, green. The stem is of articulated type. The inflorescence is simple. Pink or raspberry fruit in the form of oval cream with mild ribbing and "nose".

Color saturation depends on growing conditions. Unripe fruits are green in color and have a spot near the stem that disappears as they mature. Sometimes tomatoes can be striped. Each contains from 4 to 6 seed chambers, with a small number of seeds.

Fruit weight 150-450 grams. The “first line” of tomatoes is larger, tied up later a little bit smaller - up to 200 grams. There are no small tomatoes on the "Pink Flamingo". The flesh is medium density, juicy, with a pronounced tomato flavor. The juice content of dry matter is from 5.6% to 7%, total sugar - 2.6% -3.7%.

The yield of the variety is average, according to the results of variety tests 23.0-35.0 t / g. The share of commodity fruits is 65% - 85%.

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Pink Flamingo Tomato see below:

Specifications

"Pink flamingo" refers to table varieties. It has excellent taste. Fresh fruits are used to make salads, thick sauces. Unlike many large-fruited pink varieties, it is suitable for preservation in general form and in slices, as a winter snack. Tomato products, tomato juice have a delicate texture, a harmonious sweetish taste, but lose products from red tomatoes in color richness.

The variety of tomatoes "Pink Flamingo" is valued for its good ripening and fruit preservation for a long time, under the right storage conditions - up to two months. Due to the density and elasticity of fruits and skins, tomatoes remain marketable for a long time, they tolerate transportation well.

The disadvantages of the variety include the tendency to cracking, demanding of temperature conditions, the average tolerance of drought.

Features of growing

Sowing seeds for seedlings produced from mid-March to early April. Plants are planted in a permanent place from the second decade of May. The pink flamingo tomato variety is picky about soil composition. For him suitable areas with a fertile layer of at least 30 centimeters with high aerobic performance.

Best of all, if in the previous season, legumes, carrots, onions, cabbage, and cucumbers grew on this place.

Agronomists advise to plant tomatoes in areas with soils enriched with green manure plants:

• white mustard;
• oil radish;
• phacelia;
• lupine;
• Vicia;
• alfalfa.

Green manure can be sown in the spring before transferring seedlings to open ground and grow together with tomatoes. Planting should be thick. The above-ground part of the green manure is regularly mown, preventing seed maturation, and then used to mulch the soil around the bushes. Culture sideratov regularly change, do not plant the same species for more than two years.

During the vegetative period spend from 3 to 5 dressings. Two weeks after planting in the open ground ammonium and phosphate fertilizers are applied. During the season, fertilizing is repeated, reinforcing it with complex mineral fertilizers.

“Pink flamingo” responds well to organic fertilizing from an aqueous solution of bird droppings (1:10) with the addition of ammophos or superphosphate and wood ash.

As for fertilizers, on our website you will find a lot of useful information on this topic:

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“Pink flamingo” feels good in dense plantings, but for better illumination of ripening fruits, the bushes are planted according to the 40 x 70 centimeters scheme. Tomato demanding irrigation mode. So that the plants do not hurt they need to water with warm water. Watering is carried out early in the morning or at sunset.

Shrub form leaving one, rarely two main stem. They regularly pinch, pinch, remove excessive ovaries. If 5-6 brushes are left on one plant, the fruits will be larger and mature earlier, and new ovaries will also be formed.

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Diseases and pests

Thanks to the “wild” parents used by breeders in breeding the variety, Pink Flamingo is resistant to most diseases. But, prone to vertex rot. When the first signs of the disease appear: rusty spots, blackening of the base of the fruit, the plants are immediately fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, sprinkled with wood ash.

It is very important to have an idea about such common diseases of tomatoes as alternarioz, fusarium, verticillis, late blight. Also on our website you will find information about protection against phytophtoras and about varieties that are not subject to this scourge.

As for pests, the Colorado potato beetle, aphid, thrips, spider mites and slugs most often attempt to kill tomatoes.

"Pink flamingo" with all its demands on the soil, delicate irrigation and average yields love vegetable growers for great taste, aroma, presentation.

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