Cherry tomatoes which often called "cherry", good to surprise your guests. Do not look at the fact that they are small.
Tomatoes compensate for their size with a rich palette of colors, as well as a unique, often completely tomato-like taste.
Breeding history these tomatoes started relatively recently. Or rather since 1973. It was then that Israeli breeders received the first representatives of the new variety.
Cherry they are named for the similarity to cherry (cherri eng.) And relatively small size fruits. The work of breeders on the cultivation of varieties and hybrids of cherry is not stopped. They constantly delight gardeners with new unusual, tasty finds.
Greenhouse preparation
How to grow tomatoes varieties of cherry in the greenhouse? Preparation for spring planting tomatoes on seedlings experienced gardeners advised to start in the fall, with soil preparation. Seasoned gardeners do not recommend chemical fertilizers. In the end, of course in small quantities, they will fall into the planted plants, and with the fruits in our body.
Make better humus, peat, sawdust. Humus will replenish the level of organic fertilizers. Peat will support in the soil required humidity, will help adjust the temperature. Sawdust when rotting emit carbon dioxide, necessary for the development of plants, protect plants from root rot infection.
If necessary, deoxidize the soil with chalk or dolomite flour. To saturate the soil with nitrogen to a depth of 18-20 centimeters bury the roots and stalks of dry lupine.
Exactly the same soil composition is suitable for planting tomato seeds on seedlings. If you have not prepared the soil in advance, you can use the ready-made mixture purchased in specialized stores.
On time landing navigate yourself. They depend on the precocity of the variety, the time it takes for the soil to warm up in the greenhouse. After preparing the soil, you can think about what cherry tomatoes for the greenhouse is better to plant.
Do not take for subsequent landing seeds from hybrids. They will not repeat the characteristics of the variety from which the seeds are taken. Take the seeds only from varietal tomatoes.
Variety selection
It is not necessary to think, because of the size of the fruit, that these are low-growing tomatoes. Just like tomatoes with the size of a fruit that is usual for us, cherry bushes are both determinant and indeterminant. Nowadays, varieties characterized by "super determinism" are bred.
Cherry tomatoes - varieties for the greenhouse:
Super Determinant
The best varieties of cherry tomatoes for greenhouses of this class:
- Arctic. The most prominent representative of this variety is super early, from germination to maturation in just 77-82 days. The height of the bush does not exceed 40 centimeters. Forms inflorescences, which often give up to 22 fruits.
- F1 Citizen. Early hybrid with good taste. From the first sprouts to ripening tomatoes, 95-100 days pass. Forms brushes from 12 to 18 fruits, weighing from 12 to 25 grams. To accelerate ripening requires pasynkovanie.
Useful video about choosing varieties for greenhouses:
Determinant
- Ampel. Bush about a meter tall. In the brush to 15-18 fruits, weighing about 15 grams. A distinctive feature is the uselessness of pinching. In place of stepsons, brushes with fruit ovaries are formed.
- Raisin F1. Hybrid of early (85-90 days) maturity. The bush reaches a height of up to one meter, it is recommended to form in one stem. Up to seven brushes appear on the stem, each containing up to 20 small plum-shaped tomatoes weighing up to 20 grams.
Indeterminate
The best varieties of cherry tomatoes for greenhouses of this type:
- Orange date F1. Late maturity. Oval fruits, each weighing about 18-20 grams, are collected in brushes of 16-18 pieces. Inside amber color. The taste of plums, followed by a soft, honeyed aftertaste.
- Black cherry F1. The plant growing by one stalk has height to 3,2-3,5 meters. The fruits are regular, almost round. Very early. From germination to harvest 63-65 days. On one brush 10-12 tomatoes are formed, weighing from 15 to 30 grams. Dense skin provides a good opportunity for canning and fresh freezing.
- Pear yellow F1. Tomato work breeders of China. Bush height 2.0-2.2 meters, ripening time average (95-105 days). Tomatoes are sweet, with a berry aftertaste. Good for consumption in the form of salads, as well as for canning.
Important: despite the low weight of the fruits, due to their abundance requires tying a bush absolutely all varieties of cherry. For indeterminate tomatoes, the formation of a bush on the trellis is recommended.
Planting seedlings
Pour the prepared soil into the box, warm the soil to a temperature of 16ºC-18ºC. Make grooves 5-7 millimeters deep, spread germinated seeds into grooves. For myself write down what seeds are planted, so as not to be confused in the future. Sprinkle with a layer of earth about a centimeter, slightly condense, pour. Put the box in a well-lit place.
Temperature should be around 20ºC. After the emergence of sprouts, pour complex fertilizer "Gumat", carefully observing the instructions, and also periodically unfold the box on the window. This will help avoid excessive stretching and tilting of the seedlings. Watering with complex fertilizer can be repeated in 12-14 days.
Landing in the greenhouse
How to grow cherry tomatoes in the greenhouse? After warming the ground in the greenhouse you can start planting seedlings. The temperature can be checked with a household thermometer, leaving it in the ground for 15-20 minutes. It should not be below 15ºC, otherwise the roots may rot. After the formation of holes in the ridges, plant seedlingsby removing a pair of lower leaves.
Maintain the distance between the rows and bushes. The planting pattern is the following between rows about 45-50 centimeters, between plants about 40 centimeters - for short growing varieties. For tall plants, the distance increases to 60-75 centimeters between the rows and half a meter between the bushes. Landing it is better spend staggered, to improve access to the plant.
Plant nutrition
Do not get involved in fertilizing only mineral fertilizers. For normal formation of the ovary and fruiting nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers are required.
A couple of weeks after disembarking, feed urea, keeping proportions, one tablespoon per bucket of water. Water per liter of solution under the root of the plant. For fertilizing with nitrogen fertilizers, a solution of chicken manure with water, prepared in a ratio of 1:15, is well suited.
Required repeated mixing the mixture. After a couple of days, watering, preparing a solution at the rate of half a liter of the mixture per bucket of water. Water per liter of the mixture per plant. After 30-40 minutes, pour water under the root of the bush.
Bush care
Care will be in timely watering, periodic soil loosening. Lack of moisture may cause you completely unnecessary cracking fruit. Loosening helps to avoid excessive stagnation of moisture, which often leads to rotting of the roots.
Any cherry bushes require binding. Do not require tying only ampelnyh (lianovidnye) varieties for the greenhouse. They are grown in hanging baskets.
Growing cherry tomatoes in the greenhouse is a good option for a home garden. A rich color palette, perfect unusual fruit flavor will compensate you for their relatively small size.
