How to grow Summer Sun tomatoes correctly?

With the help of breeders, many varieties of tomatoes have been bred. Some are tall, others do not grow more than 50 cm.There are different colors tomatoranging from light pink to black. Among the varieties, cherry trees are distinguished with a bright yellow hue, emitting a radiance called Summer Sun (Summer Sun). But before planting, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the conditions for planting and caring for the plant.

Content:

• Characteristics and advantages of the variety
• Growing and caring for seedlings
• Transplanting seedlings into the ground
• Proper care of tomatoes
• Diseases and the fight against them
• Pests and methods of their elimination

Characteristics and advantages of the variety

Summer Sun Tomatoes are cherry tomatoes. They are planted in greenhouses for fruit throughout the year. The kind of tomato favored indeterminate grade... Under good conditions, the plant reaches 2 meters in height. Without proper support or support, a bush cannot hold its lashes on its own. Therefore, it is recommended to constantly tie up the plant.

Summer Sun tomatoes are a mid-season variety, but their ripening dates are distant and suitable for late harvest.

Tomatoes produce a fan-shaped ovary that forms small fruits, up to 2.5-3 cm in diameter, round in shape. In a brush, the maximum number of fruits reaches - 7-8 pcs. Each vegetable has a small mass, not exceeding 30 grams. The color color is fully consistent with the summer name a tomato - they are presented in an amber-yellow shade. Each berry in the sun presents an invisible sight - as if each fruit shines with a special inner light.

In terms of taste, the plant responds with a unique taste and smell. The fruit is dense to the touch, the skin is strong, but it breaks easily when cut under pressure. The inner flesh is fleshy, keeps its shape and does not blur. Possesses increased productivity. The plant has a potato leaf, when touched, it depletes a peculiar aroma. The shape of the plant is rather narrow, not wide. It is best to form a plant with 2-3 stems. This process is not required for greenhouse cultivation.

Growing and caring for seedlings

Before planting seedlings of Summer Sun tomatoes for seedlings, they should be well dried. Before planting, it is recommended to prepare in advance the planting site and soil for germinating seedlings. The land should be taken fertile, saturated with micronutrients. Soil acidity for plants, you should select the optimal - neutral indicator.
Planting in the ground is carried out in the spring, in March and until mid-April. For planting, it is recommended to take flowerpots, the height of which will not exceed 10 cm.

Features of growing tomato seedlings:

• For planting seedlings, you can purchase specialized soil in the store, and you can also do it yourself. To do this, you will need to combine in equal parts black soil, river sand, peat, turf soil, rotted humus, mineral fertilizers and shredded charcoal.
• A groove breaks through the soil or small depressions are made in which seeds are laid out.
• Seedlings are sprinkled on top with soil in a volume of no more than 4-5 mm, from above, slightly compacting the soil.
• Moistening the soil must be done periodically, so that the soil is constantly moist. Seeds germinate successfully at a temperature of +24 .. + 30 C.

To fulfill these requirements, it is imperative to place the Summer Sun seedlings on the southern or southwestern windowsill so that the hatching seeds have more light and warmth.
After 6-9 days, the first timid shoots will appear. After that, you should immediately move the pot with germinating seedlings to a somewhat darkened and cooler (+20 C) place. Watering in such conditions is carried out as needed, but until the surface is completely dry.

Cherry Summer Sun do not like drought or over-watering. Planting tomatoes is done in the same way as planting the seeds of any other plant. The difficulty is only in the fact that you should control the seeds and when the first sprout appears, move the flowerpot to another place so that the plants are not burned in bright sunlight.

Transplanting seedlings into the ground

As the plant grows, tomatoes should dive... When real 4-5 leaves are found in seedlings, they should be moved to a new place of residence, in small pots, no more than 500 ml in volume. The soil is poured into small flowerpots the same as in the flowerpot where the cherry blossoms were originally grown. The seedling is carefully removed from its home. In order for the tomato root system to grow much more, it is recommended to pinch it a little.

The seedlings are placed in the prepared soil a little deeper than they were previously placed. The seedlings, if they are stretched out, should be deepened to the very cotyledonous leaves. This is necessary in order for the plant to release additional lateral rhizomes, as well as to make it easier for a small seedling to pick up leaves that have withered during the rooting period.

After transplanting, the plants should be placed in cool conditions that do not exceed +16 C. It is necessary to expose them to the sunny side, but so that in the midday heat the plants are in shade. After that, periodic watering and loosening of the soil is carried out in order to deliver nutrient air to the roots and rapid penetration of moisture.

Landing in open ground is done after the last frost has passed.

Such an event is planned for the last days of April - the first ten days of May. Before this process, it is recommended that the seedlings undergo a hardening procedure. To do this, within a few days, you need to take out young seedlings outside, leaving the plants there for the whole day and bring them into the room only at night. Before planting work is planned, it is necessary to stop watering. Before the procedure for transplanting into open ground, the ground in the flowerpot must be carefully but carefully loosened up. The immersion depth of the tool should not exceed 5 cm.

In the selected area, depressions are formed 10 cm deep. Due to the fact that cherry Summer Sun are indeterminate plants that tend upward, the distance from each other should not be less than 1 meter. Seedlings are taken out of their homes and rooted in the ground, additionally sprinkling with soil on top and lightly tamping. Abundant watering is carried out from above.

Proper care of tomatoes

Summer Sun cherry tomatoes are capricious plants. In order to grow full-fledged fruits and get a high-quality harvest, you should follow some recommendations for caring for tomatoes. The following rules are distinguished:

1. Tomatoes need a must watering, they categorically cannot stand drought. It is important to provide daily moderate irrigation of the soil, but so that the soil is not flooded. Watering should be carried out only in the first half of the day and preferably before the first rays of the sun appear.The introduction of nutritious moisture should be done only at the root, without affecting the delicate leaves of the plant. Otherwise, the remaining moisture on the tops and the sun's rays will cause burns. The greatest watering is required at the moment when the plant inflorescences are tied and fruits are formed.
2. The soil should be periodically loosened, while eliminating weeds that have had time to grow.
3. You should not provoke increased air humidity - 50-60% humidity is an unfavorable condition for a plant for growth, provoking the development of pathogenic bacteria.
4. If the cultivation takes place in greenhouse conditions, then it is required to adhere to the daytime temperature of +22 .. + 24 C, and at night it is worth lowering the degrees to +16 .. + 18 C.
5. Due to the high growth of cherry, it is recommended to tie it up constantly as it grows.

If you grow plants in a greenhouse, they will have a less pronounced taste than outdoors. Only full ripening brings the fruit of Summer Sun a full range of taste sensations. If you remove the fruits from the bush not yet ripe, then they will not differ in a specific aroma and unique taste.

Following the simple rules for caring for tomatoes with amber-yellow Summer Sun fruits, the gardener gets an excellent harvest with excellent taste and dense inner pulp.

Diseases and the fight against them

Like any other plant, cherry tomatoes are infected with various diseases. If you do not control the planting, then pathogenic bacteria will develop on the seedlings. The following are the most common diseases:

• Late blight able to infect most of the plant with the disease. A distinctive feature of the disease is the formation of brown spots, which are located under the upper skin of foliage and fruits. A white, fleecy plaque forms on the underside of the affected tops. To eliminate the incipient disease, it is recommended to use chemical fungicide antifungal effects.
• Fruit cracking - a problem occurs when a large amount of liquid enters the plant. To eliminate the disease, it is recommended to reduce the amount of nutrient moisture introduced and more often to loosen the soil near the base of the tomato.
• Tomato mosaic - in case of illness, the foliage of the plant completely changes its color. Spots of various sizes of yellow or brown tones appear on the greenery. The foliage begins to wrinkle, curl. At the same time, the fruit is affected - they can also acquire an abnormal dirty yellow or putrid hue. In addition to damage to the tops, the plant is completely weakened. Any exposure to folk methods or chemical fungicides does not save. In order not to infect healthy shrubs, damaged plants are pulled out of the ground along with the roots and burned.
• Brown spot - appears as brown spots on the underside of cherry foliage. These neoplasms are covered with a grayish bloom on top. The most important and correct treatment is the elimination of all plant debris falling from the tomatoes from under the base.

In order to prevent the appearance of pathogenic bacteria, the condition of the tomatoes should be constantly monitored. When the first signs appear, the rapid elimination of a small infection as a whole does not affect the entire bulk of the plantings. If necessary, be sure to seek help from chemical insecticides. Do not wait until the disease infects the entire area of ​​the seedlings.

Pests and methods of their elimination

Pests as well as diseases are frequent guests on tomato plantings. There are the following parasitic individuals that like to settle on Summer Sun tomatoes:

• Wireworms - carry out their activities on the roots of plants, they can go deep into the center of the tomato stem. This process leads to the complete death of the shrub.In order to eliminate the large number of parasites, it is recommended to manually collect the detected worms during the digging process, and then destroy them later. If tomatoes are planted on soil with an acidic pH, then liming should be carried out, which will reduce the population of parasitic animals.
• Medvedka - the pest tears out deep passages in the ground, while damaging the root system of the plant, which provokes the death of a whole shrub. To eliminate the parasite, the soil is treated with the chemical "Thunder".
• Slugs - in most cases, they are localized on surfaces with high humidity. Pests have a tendency to eat the foliage of tomatoes and eat the fruits located at the base and next to the ground.
• Colorado potato beetle - Lays its eggs on the underside of the leaf surface. The eggs subsequently hatch into larvae, which devour significant parts of the tops of the bush. To fight, you should yourself, during the control and inspection of the plant, collect pests and neutralize them. In addition, it is possible to use a chemical insecticide. Prestige.

The main thing is that when harmful insects appear, weakening of the plant is visible. If the shrub begins to die, the cause should be sought, either on the foliage or in the roots. Thus, Summer Sun cherry tomatoes are capricious plants, but do not require special growing conditions. To get a high-quality crop, it is recommended that you simply follow all the rules for caring for the plant.

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