Tomato variety Pink giant
The pink giant is a popular mid-season tomato variety intended for cultivation in greenhouses and under film shelters. It boasts excellent fruit quality in terms of both taste and health benefits.
The Pink Giant variety is tall, can reach 2 meters in height, so there are certain difficulties in growing - a garter is required. For 1 sq. no more than 2.5 plants are planted per meter, which form into one stem. The yield of the bush is about 2.4 kg.
The weight of the "giants" is on average about 300 g, and with good agricultural technology, the largest specimens can reach 1 kg. The fruits of this tomato are flat-rounded, pink-crimson in color. It tastes sweet, quite sugary and fleshy, contains little liquid. Such tomatoes can be stored for a very long time.
In general, the plants are unpretentious and do not require special attention - there are no peculiarities in growing. They are moderately resistant to major diseases. The seed chamber in the fruits of such tomatoes is very small or absent at all, so every spring you will have to buy new seeds. However, this is not at all a reason to refuse them. The Pink Giant variety will definitely justify all your efforts invested in growing.
This variety of tomatoes was grown through seedlings with planting in open ground. It showed itself excellently, highly productive, the fruits are large, juicy, fleshy, used for the preparation of salads and sauces. When juicing the fruit, a thick liquid of sweetish tomato flavor with sourness was obtained at the outlet. During the period from growing to harvesting, it was not attacked by pests and diseases. Requires moderate watering. With an excess of moisture, the fruits burst.
This is one of my favorite varieties - high yield in a minimal area. There are really few seeds, and those that are not very suitable. I found a way out - I leave the best, beautiful and even fruits plucked to achieve an overripe state. Only then do I take out the seeds, sort them, and in the spring I have something to plant. They are sick, like everyone else, with late blight - I have been treating stakes for garters with diesel fuel since autumn. This helps to preserve future crops. It's good that the stepsons take root without problems - full-fledged autumn bushes grow out of them, and I harvest the harvest until the very frosts. A wonderful tomato for all latitudes - I live in the south, and my sister is in the middle lane, and we have the same attitude towards the Pink Giant. I advise novice gardeners if they have not yet had time to get to know him.
The pink giant was planted for the first time last season. The variety met all my hopes. The neighbors looked at the bushes with envy. I fiddled a bit with the garter and pinching the side shoots. But it was worth it. Huge, sugary, delicious tomatoes delighted my family. Enough for friends and for preserving juice. Such a tomato will not fit into a jar, because he himself is a quarter of it. I will definitely plant it in the next planting season.
I had a chance to grow this tomato. In the first year, the harvest was good, they themselves sowed purchased seeds for seedlings, and then in open ground. Tomatoes are delicious and pleasant to look at. But in subsequent years, somehow it did not work out with this variety. We prepared the planting material ourselves, nothing came of it. We bought seeds, but the grown tomatoes looked a little like a pink giant. It is important to know exactly what you are buying.
An excellent variety, we have been growing for more than one year already. I put it in a greenhouse, and this does not spoil the taste in any way. Care, like most tomatoes, requires attention, but the result is worth it.The fruits are sweet (the sourness is barely felt), juicy, very large, the skin is thin. Mainly because of the size I use for salads.
The pink giant in our family is on the must-plant list. We use the fruits to make juice. Grown both in the greenhouse and in the garden. In the greenhouse, bushes were higher, and more fruits were tied. But all the same, it was necessary to remove the extra ones, since for this variety it is recommended to leave no more than 3 - 4 pieces in the brush. So the yield was not particularly influenced by the cultivation method.
For this tomato, timely pinching is important. Indeterminate varieties, to which the Pink Giant belongs, are necessarily grown in one stem. And be sure to pinch the top at the end of August over the 3rd or 4th leaf after the last flower brush. Otherwise, like a plant that does not stop its growth, it will spend energy on the formation of new flower brushes, which will not have time to ripen.
I had a chance to plant this variety only once, then I simply could not buy seeds at the right time and had to replace it with other varieties. The fruits are large, even, pleasing to the eye. Even in the short summer of Ivanovka oblast, the tomatoes turned out to be 200-300 grams each and would have been even more, but you have to pick them early so that they are not affected by late blight. Phytophthora is a scourge for our region, in the open field it is necessary to harvest the crop on July 25, since in August there is already cold dew and the crop dies. I grew this variety in a greenhouse, so I managed to harvest later, somewhere in the middle of August, and “ripen”. The taste is excellent.