- Name synonyms: Anzhela Gigant
- Category: grade
- Growth type: indeterminate
- Appointment: fresh consumption, for juice, for ketchup and tomato paste
- Ripening period: mid-season
- Ripening time, days: 110-125
- Growing conditions: for greenhouses
- Bush size: tall
- Bush height, cm: up to 200
- Ripe fruit color: Red
The main areas of breeding work on tomato varieties are: fruit quality, yield and disease resistance. The breeders managed to embody the highest rates in all these categories in the young tomato variety Angela Gigant.
Description of the variety
Angela Gigant (Anzhela Gigant) - indeterminate (unlimited growth) tomato variety with powerful tall bushes recommended for greenhouses, greenhouses and open ground. Bred in the 2010s, it is recognized as one of the most notable and successful breeding innovations. Mid-season, with a long fruiting period, unpretentious and resistant to diseases. The variety is distinguished by good yield and keeping quality, gives tasty, sweet, even and large fruits weighing 300-400 grams.
The main qualities of the fruit
Bright red flat-round tomatoes Angela Gigant have an attractive appearance, thin skin and aromatic, juicy fleshy pulp. They are consumed fresh, processed for tomato paste, ketchup or juice, used for the preparation of winter preparations. The large size of the fruits makes this variety inconvenient for canning them whole in jars.
The harvested crop perfectly tolerates long-term storage. Tomatoes can be removed when technically ripe and placed in a cool place to ripen.
The average weight of Angela Gigant fruits is about 400 grams, but some specimens, justifying the name of the variety, reach 1-1.2 kg.
Taste characteristics
The taste of the Angela Gigant variety is highly appreciated by professional tasters: it is harmonious, sweet, with a slight sourness. Another plus is the small amount of seeds. These tomatoes are ideal for salads or sauces. Tomato juice from Angela Gigant fruits also turns out to be very tasty and rich.
Ripening and fruiting
In terms of ripening, this variety is considered mid-season. From germination to the appearance of the first fruits, it takes from 110 to 125 days. Fruiting begins in July and lasts until the autumn cold.
Yield
Angela Giant is considered a consistently high-yielding variety. Forms tall bushes (1.8-2 m), which can stretch up to 2.5 m in height (in greenhouses). In the open field, the yield reaches 20 kg per 1 m², when grown in a greenhouse - from 25 to 30 kg, or about 8 kg per bush.
The timing of planting seedlings and planting in the ground
The Angela Giant variety is grown through seedlings in boxes, cups or peat tablets. Mature tomato seeds can be dried and used in the following seasons. Sowing is done in March. Seeds are treated with stimulants to increase growth rates or are placed in a potassium permanganate solution for prophylaxis.
The seeds are deepened into peat or a moistened mixture of humus and soil by 1 cm. You can cover the container container with a lid or tighten it with a film so that the temperature is maintained in it and the humidity level does not change.
After the formation of 2-3 true leaves on the sprouts, the seedlings dive - they are carefully transferred to separate containers. After 50-55 days, young seedlings are ready for planting in a permanent place.
Growing tomato seedlings is an extremely important process, because it largely depends on whether the gardener can harvest at all. All aspects must be taken into account, from seedbed preparation to planting in the ground.
Landing scheme
Seedlings Angela Gigant is planted in the soil prepared in the fall in shallow holes. During planting, 3-4 plants can be placed on 1 m² of plot (scheme 50x60 cm), but not more, because the bushes have a rather branched root system.
Growing and care
Angela Giant requires the obligatory garter of the stems to the supports, net or trellis. This procedure is carried out regularly as the bush grows. Fruit clusters also need a garter due to the large-fruited variety.
It is recommended to regularly prune the over-stretching bush and remove any excess leaves and stepchildren that appear between the stem and leaf. To obtain a large-fruited crop, it is necessary to form 2-3 stems.
The root area can be mulched. Watering is done in the evening with warm, settled water under the root of the plant.
A plant needs different micronutrients at each stage of growth. All fertilizers can be divided into two groups: mineral and organic. Folk remedies are often used: iodine, yeast, bird droppings, eggshells.
It is important to observe the rate and period of feeding. This also applies to folk remedies and organic fertilizers.
Disease and pest resistance
Tomatoes Angela Gigant have a high immunity to late blight and other diseases. For insect pests, the bushes are treated with insecticides before flowering; natural remedies can also be used: decoctions and herbal infusions.
To protect plants from infection by infections, it is worth cultivating the soil under future bushes. The top layer of soil is removed, and the planting site of the seedlings is treated with copper sulfate or a solution of potassium permanganate. Another method to increase the resistance of tomatoes is to dig up the area in spring or autumn.
Resistant to adverse weather conditions
The variety tolerates moisture deficit, weather extremes and short-term temperature drops. For trouble-free cultivation in open ground, the southern territories of Russia (Stavropol Territory, Krasnodar Territory) are ideal for him. In the central region and the middle lane, this variety also feels good and bears good fruit. In the Urals and in the northern regions, Angela Gigant bushes thrive in greenhouses and film-type greenhouses.
