Tomato varieties with photos and descriptions 2.03.2018

Tomato "Giant Novikova" with excellent taste

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What we have on the market

Choosing seeds, shops and specialized centers represent the “Giant Novikova” from such manufacturers:

Firm "Veles";
"Seeds of Crimea";
"Aelita";
"Siberian garden".

Everything would be fine if the description of tomatoes of the same variety did not differ, but not everything fits.

Feature Overview

Studying the “Giant Novikova” tomato, the characteristic and description of a variety from different producers are completely different in terms of ripening period and vegetative form. Tomatoes average ripening and are intended for growing in greenhouses and greenhouses

Description of the bush

The plant is indeterminate, tall. The height of the shoot comes to two meters. The leaf plate is of medium size and the shoot itself is not distinguished by strong foliage.

The bush requires constant pinching, but does not show abundant formation of stepsons.

Each brush carries 4-5 large tomatoes.

Fruit

Variety of salad destination with the possibility of processing on juices, mashed potatoes, pasta, ketchup. All firms serve tomato as a very large-fruited one. The size of a tomato is described on average within 600 g, but Aelita insists on 1200 g; “Siberian Garden” claims that a tomato can reach 1500 kg of weight.

In the color palette, the producers also did not agree: “Velez claims that the tomato is pink in color,“ Aelita ”and“ Seeds of Crimea ”describe the tomato as raspberry,“ Siberian garden ”speaks of pink and raspberry color.

The shape of the fruit is flat and round, and in this, all manufacturers agree. Tomato large with pronounced ribbing and lobulation.

Tomato tastes are very good. Although many point to sour taste, basically the balance of sugars and organic acids is very sustained. The fruit is velvety, sugar, with the so-called watermelon pulp.

Gestation period

Those who have already grown tomato "Giant Novikov" say that there is no uniformity in the ripening of fruits. One tomato brush can carry a very large, beginning to pick up the color of the fruit, two medium and one very small, which is in the growth stage.

The fruiting period is stretched. Growing up in greenhouses, tomato growing is delayed until late autumn, and only natural weather conditions interrupt fruiting.

To give the opportunity to start as many fruits as possible the first tomatoes, which have already begun to enter the phase of technical ripeness, it is more expedient to remove.

In the middle of August they practice pinching the top of the shoot, then those tomatoes that have already started, will have time to gain weight and ripen.

Reading the reviews of vegetable growers, and looking carefully at the photo, it is clear that there is a re-grading. In the photo with the designation of the same variety of tomatoes with a different habit of the bush, different fruits, and different types in the process of maturation.

Disease and Pest Resistance

Those who have packed seeds, printing recommendations for cultivation, argue that the tomato is resistant to most tomato diseases.

Vegetable growers who grew the variety also share positive impressions and did not reveal any particular susceptibility to diseases.

However, the tomato is quite bad gives a commodity yield. Tomatoes are cracking, and this is not in favor of marketability.

The keeping quality of the fruits is also not great.

Yield

Yield is difficult to determine. Manufacturers indicate numbers from 6 to 10 kg per bush.

Vegetable growers who cultivate the variety are less optimistic and point to 4-5 kg.

In the conditions of the Moscow region, vegetable growers are extremely disappointed with the yield and claim that it is not realistic to collect more than 4 kg from a bush.

Vegetable growers complain that the variety is very picky and not every summer will allow him to reap a good harvest.

The merits of the variety

Those who love very large tomatoes are definitely pleased with the variety. Among its advantages:

large fruits;
excellent taste;
yield under favorable circumstances;
disease resistance.

The variety has several disadvantages:

cracking fruit;
fastidiousness to weather conditions;
high fertility requirements;
low capacity

Features of growing

Rassada period

The variety of tomato “Giant Novikova” requires the indispensable cultivation of seedlings with timely picking in the phase of two true leaves. Only in this case, the plant will be able to build a good root system. During this period it is important to pay particular attention to:

planting time (end of February, beginning of March, because the variety is not early);
nutritional value of soil for seedlings (to give a start to a powerful increase in shoots);
individual capacity for cultivation (at least 500 g, for the development of powerful rhizomes).