Rosy tomatoes enjoy the deserved love of gardeners. They are sugary, moderately juicy, very tasty. Such tomatoes are eaten by children with pleasure, they are recommended for diet food. A bright representative of the category is the popular variety “Volgograd Pink”.
In this article we will tell you everything that we ourselves know about tomatoes Volgograd rose-bearing fruits. Here you will find a detailed description of the variety, you can get acquainted with its characteristics, learn about the characteristics of cultivation.
Tomatoes "Volgograd Pink": variety description
Grade name | Volgograd pink |
general description | Early ripe determinant grade of tomatoes for cultivation in an open ground and hotbeds |
Originator | Russia |
Ripening | 100 days |
The form | Fruits are flat and round, with pronounced ribbing |
Colour | Mature fruit color - pink |
Average tomato mass | 100-130 grams |
Application | Table grade |
Yield varieties | 3-4 kg from a bush |
Features of growing | Tomatoes are grown in seedlings. |
Disease resistance | Resistant to most diseases |
“Volgograd Pink” is a high-yielding early ripe variety. The bush is determinant, 50-60 cm high. The amount of green mass is average, the leaves are medium-sized, dark green. The fruits ripen with brushes of 5-6 pieces. Medium sized fruits weighing from 100 to 130 g. On the lower branches, tomatoes are usually larger. The shape is flat-rounded, with pronounced ribbing at the stem.
The flesh is moderately dense, fleshy, sugary. A large number of seed chambers. The skin is thin, not rigid, well protecting the fruit from cracking. The taste is delicate, delicious, not watery, pleasantly sweet. High content of sugars and beneficial microelements.
The variety of tomato "Volgograd Pink" is bred by Russian breeders and is intended for growing tomatoes in open ground or under film. Tomatoes quietly tolerate minor fluctuations in temperature, forming the ovary, even after frost. Heat and drought, they are also not afraid. Harvested fruits are well stored, transportation is possible..
Variety refers to the salad. Fruits are tasty fresh, you can cook soups, sauces, mashed potatoes. From ripe tomatoes it turns out thick sweet juice of a beautiful pink shade.
You can compare these figures with other varieties in the table below:
Grade name | Fruit weight (grams) |
Volgograd pink | 100-130 |
Yusupovskiy | 400-800 |
Fatima | 300-400 |
Caspar | 80-120 |
The Golden Fleece | 85-100 |
Diva | 120 |
Irina | 120 |
Batyana | 250-400 |
Dubrava | 60-105 |
Nastya | 150-200 |
Mazarin | 300-600 |
Pink Lady | 230-280 |
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- excellent taste of the fruit;
- high yield;
- harvested tomatoes are well kept;
- resistance to major diseases.
Deficiencies in the variety is not noticed.
Grade name | Yield |
Volgograd pink | 3-4 kg from a bush |
Bobcat | 4-6 kg from a bush |
Apples in the snow | 2.5 kg from a bush |
Russian size | 7-8 kg per square meter |
Apple Russia | 3-5 kg from a bush |
King of Kings | 5 kg from a bush |
Katya | 15 kg per square meter |
Long keeper | 4-6 kg from a bush |
Raspberry jingle | 18 kg per square meter |
Grandma's Gift | 6 kg per square meter |
Crystal | 9.5-12 kg per square meter |
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Features of growing
Tomatoes are best propagated by seedling. Seeds are sown in the second half of March. Before planting, they can be treated with a growth stimulator, which significantly improves germination and improves plant immunity. Soil for seedlings is made up of a mixture of turf or garden land with humus. For greater nutritional value, a small portion of superphosphate, potash fertilizer or wood ash is added to the substrate.
Seeds are sown with a depth of 2 cm, planting is sprayed from a spray bottle and covered with a film. When sprouts appear on the surface, containers with seedlings are exposed to bright light.
In cloudy weather, plants will have to light up. Watering moderate, from a watering can or spray. When the first pair of true leaves appears on the seedlings, it dives in separate containers, and then is fed with a full complex fertilizer. Older plants are hardened, bringing to the open air first for several hours and then for the whole day.
A transplant to a permanent place of residence begins in the second half of May or in early June, when the soil warms up completely. Compact bushes are planted at a distance of 40-50 cm from each other, at least 60 cm between the rows.
For better insolation and stimulation of the ovary, lower leaves are recommended to be removed. It is necessary to water tomatoes plentifully, but not too often.. For the season, the bushes need 3-4 times to feed the mineral fertilizer based on potassium and phosphorus.
Pests and diseases
The variety of tomato "Volgograd Pink" is sufficiently resistant to the main diseases of the nightshade. It is practically not affected by mosaics, verticillus, fusarium, leaf spot. Preventive measures will save from vertex, root or gray rot: timely weeding, loosening the soil.
Young plants useful to spray a pale pink solution of potassium permanganate or phytosporin. At the first signs of late blight, plantings with copper-containing preparations should be plentifully treated. From insect pests helps treatment with insecticides. Industrial aerosols work well on thrips, spider mites, whitefly. You can fight with aphids with the help of a soap solution, they wash the affected parts of plants until complete destruction of pests.
Variety tomato "Volgograd Pink" - a real find for gardeners who do not have greenhouses. Tomatoes feel great on open beds, very rarely get sick, bear fruit even under adverse weather conditions. If desired, the seed can be collected independently from ripe fruit.
Below you will find links to varieties of tomatoes with different ripening terms:
Medium early | Late-ripening | Mid-season |
New Transnistria | Rocket | Hospitable |
Pullet | American ribbed | Red pear |
Sugar giant | De barao | Chernomor |
Torbay f1 | Titanium | Benito F1 |
Tretyakovsky | Long keeper | Paul Robson |
Black Crimea | King of Kings | Raspberry elephant |
Chio Chio San | Russian size | Mashenka |