Early Turkish Tomato

The versatile hybrid Turkish super early tomato is a good choice for those who want to diversify their summer cottage collection. Plants are suitable for outdoor planting or greenhouse cultivation. The tomato has recently appeared on the market, but has already managed to win a lot of fans among amateur vegetable growers.

Private selection hybrid from Turkey. It is positioned as the earliest of the existing ones.

Determinate bushes, undersized, stretching no more than 50-60 cm in height. Moderate leafiness, provides good shelter for ripening tomatoes from direct sun. Strong bushes can handle the weight of the fruit without additional support in the form of supports or garters.

The fruits are round, neat, with a red skin. The average fruit weight is 100-150 g. The pulp is small-seeded, with a large number of chambers, red on the cut.

The fruits are sweet, tasty, with light dessert shades. Suitable for conservation, the skin retains its intactness after scalding with boiling water.

Ultra early hybrid, ripens in 49-52 days. Fruiting is extended, lasts from July to October. The return of the crop is friendly, in waves.

The tomato is fruitful, gives about 2-3 kg per bush.

Sowing can be done from mid-February to late April. This allows you to grow 2 crops of tomatoes at once during the warm season. The seedlings are transferred to the ground from April to July. The hybrid can also be grown using the seedling method with late sowing.

Up to 5 bushes can be placed on 1 m2 at a time. Stocking density is high enough.

Soil preparation is very important when growing ultra-early tomatoes. It is imperative to ensure that organic fertilizers are introduced into the soil in advance. The norm is 50 kg of humus per square meter. The plot is carefully dug up, when sowing directly into the ground, it must be freed from any weeds, provided with a supply of wood ash and superphosphate.If the soil is too dense, clayey, it is recommended to add sand to it.

Sowing in open ground is performed by immersing the seeds to a depth of 15-20 mm with double row spacing. On average, 10 g of tomato seeds of this hybrid are sown per 1 m2. When germinating, it is important to maintain the air temperature in the range of 23-25 ​​degrees. After waiting for shoots, on the 3-5th day, you can gradually move on to hardening the seedlings. It begins 4-7 days after sprouting, reducing daytime temperatures to 7-13 degrees.

If everything is done correctly, tomatoes will grow strong, and flower brushes will be laid early. When planting in containers, you can follow the same recommendations. In this case, the pick is performed at the age of 2.5-3 weeks. After that, the average temperatures are raised by 4 degrees. Watering the seedlings is carried out in moderation - rarely, but abundantly, up to 20 liters per 1 m2 in the open field.

Feeding of young plants is done 2-3 times during the growing season. A mixture of 80 g of superphosphate, 10 g of ammonium nitrate, 30 g of potassium sulfate, dissolved in 10 liters of water is introduced.

Ultra-early tomatoes must be protected from recurrent frosts. It is worth building a shelter for plants, individual or general, fumigating the bushes with smoke. Grasshopping is not very necessary for this determinant, but the excess lower leaves should be removed without fail. It is recommended to form a bush in 1 stem, but some summer residents prefer to lead it in 2-3 branches, sacrificing early maturity.

Hybrid Turkish superearly can hardly be called very resistant to diseases and pests. Due to its rapid maturation, it is not susceptible to late blight, but may be vulnerable to powdery mildew and fusarium wilt, the tobacco mosaic virus. It is recommended to carry out preventive treatment of bushes in the open field every 2 weeks from the moment of flowering. This will protect the plants throughout the growing season.

Among insect pests, the main danger is aphids. Whitefly can also be found in greenhouses. In the open field, do not forget about collecting the Colorado potato beetle, spraying the bushes from it. Insecticidal protection measures should be applied at least once every 3 weeks.

The hybrid is cold-resistant, unpretentious to growing conditions. Fruit setting continues even with sudden temperature changes.

Suitable for planting in almost all climatic zones. Tomato is successfully cultivated in the open field even in the Urals, and in the south they easily manage to harvest 2 crops. In film greenhouses, you can plant in the north and in Siberia, in the Middle lane.

The very early Turkish tomato is liked by many summer residents, but for farmers it is not yet of particular interest. Amateur vegetable growers note that plants provide maximum early maturity, so many prefer to wait for warm days at the end of April to sow seeds directly into open ground. Many people say that the fruits are unusually large for determinants, but at the same time they are suitable for planting on a windowsill or balcony. Their taste does not suffer, with a sufficient amount of sun it turns out to be the same bright and rich.

The disadvantages of this hybrid include the inability to obtain planting material on their own. Since the tomato is new, it will be quite difficult to acquire it, there are a lot of falsifications on the market, and there is a re-grading in the packages. There are no particularly big complaints about the original planting material. It gives a germination rate of about 80%, it can be immediately placed in separate pots. Summer residents mention that this tomato performs very well in Russian climatic conditions, is not too picky about care.