A hybrid of tomatoes called Samara F1. This variety will cause interest among those gardeners who like to treat their guests with salted tomatoes.
Farmers will be interested in its high yields, as well as the excellent density of the fruit allowing to transport the crop to the place of sale without any special losses.
In this article you will find not only a complete description of the variety, but also get acquainted with its characteristics, see how the tomatoes look in the photo. We will also tell about the cultivation features, advantages and disadvantages of the variety.
Samara tomatoes: variety description
The hybrid is brought in the State registry across Russia and recommended for cultivation in greenhouses, hotbeds and under a film. The bush is a plant of indeterminate type (about determinant read here), it reaches a height of 2.0-2.2 meters. The plant shows the greatest effectiveness when forming a bush with 1-2 stems.
The bush requires binding to a vertical pole or trellis. Samara tomatoes - early ripening, active fruiting begins 90-96 days after planting seeds for seedlings. The shrub is of medium branching, with a small amount of slightly corrugated, dark green leaves with a matt bloom. The shape of the leaves is normal for tomatoes.
The variety tomato Samara is characterized by a long period of fruiting, even size of the fruit in the brush. It is resistant to tobacco mosaic, cladocele and verticillary wilt.
Country breeding hybrid | Russia |
Fruit Form | Round, almost spherical shape with a weak spot near the stem |
Colour | Light green ripened, ripened rich red with a light gloss |
Average weight | Almost equal weight of fruits in a brush, about 85-100 grams |
Application | Universal, suitable for cutting in salads and canning with whole fruits |
Average yield | 3.5-4.0 from a bush, 11.5-13.0 kilograms at a landing of no more than 3 bushes per square meter |
Marketable condition | Excellent trade dress, good safety during transportation |
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A photo
See below: Samara tomatoes photo
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the advantages can be noted:
- early ripening;
- prolonged yield return;
- even size and weight of the tomato;
- universality of use of ripened fruit;
- good yield per square meter of soil;
- resistance to diseases of tomatoes;
- fruits resistant to cracking.
You can compare this indicator with other varieties in the table below:
Grade name | Fruit weight |
Samara | 85-100 grams |
Bobcat | 180-240 |
Russian size | 650-2000 |
Podsinskoe miracle | 150-300 |
American ribbed | 300-600 |
Rocket | 50-60 |
Altaic | 50-300 |
Yusupovskiy | 500-600 |
Prime minister | 120-180 |
Honey heart | 120-140 |
disadvantages:
- growing only on protected ridges;
- the requirement of tying the stalks of the bush.
You can compare the crop yield with others in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Samara | 3.5-4 kg from a bush |
Nastya | 10-12 per square meter |
Gulliver | 7 kg from a bush |
Lady shedi | 7.5 kg per square meter |
Honey heart | 8.5 kg per square meter |
Fat jack | 5-6 kg from a bush |
Doll | 8-9 kg per square meter |
Summer resident | 4 kg from a bush |
Lazy man | 15 kg per square meter |
The president | 7-9 kg per square meter |
King of the market | 10-12 kg per square meter |
Features of growing
The optimal period for planting seeds for seedlings will be the last decade of February. When the first true leaf appears, pick the seedlings. When picking, fertilize with complex fertilizer. After the soil is heated, transfer the seedlings to the prepared holes in the ridges.
Further care will be reduced to periodic feeding, loosening of the soil in the holes, mulching, irrigation with warm water after sunset, removal of weeds, fertilizer.
Read on our site all about fertilizers for tomatoes:
- For seedlings.
- Top best.
- Mineral and organic.
- Ready-made complexes.
- Yeast.
- Iodine.
- Ash.
- Hydrogen peroxide.
- Ammonia.
- Boric acid.
- How to conduct foliar feeding and fertilize plants when picking?
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Diseases and pests
As mentioned above, the variety is resistant to diseases of tomatoes and you will not need control measures against them. But in order to prevent their occurrence and to properly carry out prevention, some knowledge is needed.
Read all about:
- Alternaria, fusarium and verticillis.
- Late blight, protection against it and varieties resistant to this disease.
As for pests, most often plantings are threatened by Colorado beetles, aphids, thrips, spider mites. Folk remedies or insecticides will help against them.
A Samara F1 tomato planted in a greenhouse will delight you with an abundance of ripening tomato brushes of even weight and size. You will experience legitimate pride by opening a jar of dense tomatoes of excellent taste in winter.
In the table below you will find links to articles about tomatoes with different ripening terms:
Mid-season | Late-ripening | Superearly |
Nikitich | Prime minister | Alpha |
F1 funtik | Grapefruit | Pink Impreshn |
Crimson sunset F1 | De Barao the Giant | Golden stream |
F1 sunrise | Yusupovskiy | Miracle lazy |
Mikado | Bull heart | The miracle of cinnamon |
Azure F1 Giant | Rocket | Sanka |
Uncle Styopa | Altaic | Locomotive |