Tomatoes Chocolate Bunny and "Dark chocolate"; belong to the group of black cherry tomatoes.
Combine the positive qualities of small and multi-colored varieties.
Chocolate cherry tomatoes not only decorate the table, but also support health, diversify children's and diet menu.
Tomatoes "Chocolate Bunny"
Chocolate Bunny - indeterminantny non-hybrid variety.
Mid-season. Receipt of the first fruits in 100-120 days after germination.
The height of the bush reaches 1.2 m.
The plant is sprawling, strong.
Forms a large number of brushes. The brushes are often located on the bush. In the brush from 10 fruits.
Universal type of cultivation. Feels great in the open field, film greenhouses. Resistant to diseases, rainy weather, temperature extremes. Recommended for zoning in the northern regions of Russia.
The fruits are small, plum shaped. Medium density, fleshy, smooth, red-brown in color, occasionally with pink patches. Sweet, sometimes sour. Mass - 40-50 g.
High yielding. Fruits in late June to frost.
Good for drying. When cooked, the tomato skin does not burst, the fruit remains intact, which is attractive for canning.
Appreciated for the decorative appearance, used to decorate festive, everyday dishes.
Possesses a good trade dress, easily transfers transportation, possesses good keeping quality and ripening.
The lack of varieties include the need for garters.
In the photo tomato "Chocolate Bunny":
Black Chocolate Tomato: variety description
Tomato variety "Dark chocolate" registered in the State Register of Breeding Achievements Approved for Use.
Originator varieties agrofirm "Search".
Indeterminantny grade, not a hybrid.
The leaf is green, medium. Simple inflorescence.
Mid-season. Vegetation period 111-120 days.
The grade is intended for cultivation in the closed soil.
Disease resistant, unpretentious.
Tomatoes are small, rounded, cocktail type, uniform chocolate color with a purple tinge and a green halo at the stem. Weight up to 35 g. Flesh juicy. Elastic dense skin. The fruit has two nests.
Taste is sweet, with a fruit note. In the State Register it is positioned as a salad variety, but suitable for conservation.
High yielding, in a brush from 12 fruits, from one square meter it is possible to remove up to 5 kg.
Long shelf life. Good ripening. Resistant to transportation.
The lack of varieties - does not like open ground, grown only in greenhouses.
Bright photo gallery of tomatoes "Dark Chocolate":
Agrotechnology
Like most small-fruited varieties "Chocolate Bunny" and "Black Chocolate" unpretentious. For their cultivation does not require careful adherence to agricultural technology, making a large number of fertilizing, fertilizer, the use of means of protection against pests and diseases, painstaking pasynkovaniya.
But, general rules should be followed:
- Planting in a permanent place is carried out according to the scheme 0.5 m between bushes with a row spacing of about a meter;
- “Dark chocolate” and “Chocolate bunny” are tall varieties, they require tying up to the trellis, installing cedder holders, supports for spreading bushes;
- Garter is carried out on three levels;
- With the threat of the first frost, in order to avoid wilting, wrinkling, the green fruits are not removed from the bush, but are dug out the whole plant, they are suspended indoors upwards. With this method of ripening, the harvest period is increased to two months.
Diseases
Tomatoes "Chocolate Bunny" and "Black Chocolate" do not like chemical fertilizers. The color change from chocolate to brown, pink, the appearance of spots on the skin indicates a decrease in the content of anthocyanin required by these varieties in the soil, and an acid-base balance disturbance.
Agronomists advise sow in the row a mustard, pea or scatter fresh-cut tops of these crops between bushes. Weekly alternating supplements help: one week with a solution of chicken manure, another with crushed chalk, ash from the calculation of a matchbox for a bush.
When simple agrotechnical varieties of tomatoes "Black Chocolate" and "Chocolate Bunny" give a rich harvest. Chocolate cherry tomatoes will not only decorate the table, but also support health, diversify children's and diet menus.
