Tomato varieties for greenhouses are not afraid of diseases and produce high yields
Tomatoes - the vegetable is very tasty and healthy, but those who grow them know firsthand about the fastidiousness of these plants. Therefore, breeding work is being carried out in the direction of developing varieties that are drought-resistant, resistant to light frosts and major diseases. Moreover, The success of growing tomatoes largely depends on the variety, its adaptability to cultivation in open ground or in greenhouses.
Growing tomatoes in greenhouse conditions is quite troublesome and expensive, so special requirements are imposed on varieties grown indoors:
- high productivity
- presentation of the fruit
- responsiveness of plants to fertilizer application
- resistance to major diseases and high humidity
- low light tolerance.
Specially bred varieties of tomatoes for greenhouses, as a rule, correspond to the above wishes, although their taste may be somewhat underestimated.
Only F1 hybrids can be quite suitable for planting in greenhouses:
- early ripening
- resistant to verticillium, tobacco mosaic
- highly productive
- characterized by uniform ripening of the crop.
These are varieties such as: F1 Rhapsody-NK, F1 NK-Sprinter, F1 Etude-NK, F1 King of the Market VIII, and others that have
- earlier fruit formation
- not afraid of temperature changes
- giving uniform ripening of fruits.
Tomato varieties for greenhouses are usually tall and require staking, but the yield can be up to 20 kg per square meter. Growing different varieties of greenhouse tomatoes requires timely feeding of plants and their processing.
