Dirk Indoor Tomato belongs to the early hybrids, forming small fruits of saturated red color on long brushes. The average weight of the fetus is about 14 grams. This hybrid has a salad purpose. The fruits are tasty, sweet, with a thick shiny skin, well preserving the integrity of the pickles.
The hybrid was obtained from Enza Zaden, based in the Netherlands. This company supplies vegetable hybrids and varieties to the Russian Federation that have universal characteristics and can be cultivated in all countries of the world.
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What are the characteristics of the plant
Tomato Dirk is a plant pollinated by bees. It is characterized by a high ability to tie fruit under adverse conditions. Tomato can be grown in greenhouses throughout the Russian Federation. It will actively breed in open ground in areas where summer lasts at least 4 months.
Tomato Dirk forms a powerful bush of indeterminate type. He gives the first crop 75 days after emergence. It quickly forms a crown, actively builds up brushes throughout the growing period. On them, aligned dense fruits are tied, which blush together, despite the shading. The hybrid will actively bear fruit, in spite of insufficient illumination and high temperature.
Dirk tomato fruits are placed in pairs on long branches, which, during the period of technical ripeness, are cut together with the fruits and stored. Small tomatoes tolerate transportation well, do not crack during transport, lie for a long time. The peduncles and sepals of this hybrid after harvesting for a long time keep a fresh look.
Adult bushes are resistant to stress, easily tolerate temperature changes. Dirk's leaves and stems are resistant to damage caused by the Pepino mosaic virus. With an excess of nitrogen, plants can be overly vegetative.
From one developed bush you can get about 1 kg of crop per 1 cut. The longer the bush grows, the higher will be its yield. While maintaining optimal temperatures, the Dirk hybrid bush can grow and produce up to 9 months.
Below are photos of this hybrid, on which you can see all the features of this tomato.
How to grow a hybrid
The timing of planting for seedlings is determined independently. They depend on the average temperature in the greenhouse. Tomatoes are planted in closed ground when the air inside the greenhouse warms up to 20C.
Seeds are sown 2 months before transplanting seedlings on beds. Since this is an early variety of tomatoes, seedlings can be planted in the ground with the first flowers. To sprouts actively developed, they need:
- nutrient medium;
- watering with warm water;
- foliar top dressing;
- loose soil.
Caring for Dirk's seedlings is no different from growing other varieties of tomatoes. When planting bushes, rows are made at a distance of 50 cm. The holes are filled in 2 rows in a checkerboard pattern, making a distance of 30 cm between them.
A glass of ash, a handful of black soil and a teaspoon of complex fertilizer are poured into the finished pits. Then pour 1 liter of water and plant a bush, deeply digging it into the ground.
The first month, when the formation of stems occurs, the plant is watered and the ground under it is loosened. The bush is spudded 2 times to increase the number of roots that nourish the plant. Stepsons can be removed, leaving 3 main trunks, so as not to overload the bush with lateral processes.
Features of cultivation and care of the variety are the need to tie the bush. The length of the 4-month-old tomato branch reaches about 1.5 m. Since the adult bush is abundantly covered with brushes, its total weight is about 8 kg, and this abundance requires strong support.
The manufacturer recommends that when growing indoors, refuse to use hormones to stimulate fruit formation. When applied, the quality of the products is significantly reduced, and the sales period is reduced. Pollination of flowers in a greenhouse is best done with bumblebees. For 100 m2, it is enough to keep 6 bumblebees so that the variety gives the maximum possible result.
What are the reviews about the hybrid?
Hybrids with small fruits that form on the hands can often be found in summer cottages not only in greenhouses, but also in open ground. Due to the early maturity of Dirk, in areas where frost disappears at the end of April, seeds can be sown in open ground under a film and receive seedlings, which will begin to yield from the end of July.
Oksana, southwest of Primorsky Krai: Once planted a Dirk hybrid in open ground for testing. Now every year on the site through self-seeding grow tomatoes of this variety. I leave a few bushes and harvest them from them until the first frost. The bushes are huge, by the autumn they break the support, and lie on the ground. Tomatoes are bright, red, small, dense, have a sweet taste.
Irina, Moscow Region: Dirk Hybrid grows well and produces in open ground. It requires watering if the summer is dry and warm. By autumn, forms a voluminous bush, all covered with fruit-bearing brushes. I don’t stepchild, letting the bush form on its own. The hybrid is resistant to late blight. Bushes easily tolerate temporary cooling. In the suburban area of central Russia, it continues to produce crops until the first freeze that burns the bush.
Valery, Southern Urals: Planted 2 Dirk bushes in a greenhouse and provided himself with small cherry-type tomatoes for the whole season. Both children and adults love to eat them. The tomato is unpretentious, and its bush is constantly growing in volume. Since tomatoes are constantly forming on it, I take the crop from the bush regularly. Bushes are not stepson.
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