Chocolate variety of tomato can rightly be attributed to the most unusual varieties of tomato. Due to its features, he became a favorite with a huge number of gardeners. Homeland of this variety of tomatoes is Russia, and it was bred in the XXI century.
Well, in more detail about these tomatoes, you can learn from our article. Read the full and detailed description of the variety, get acquainted with its characteristics and cultivation features.
Chocolate Tomato: variety description
This hybrid semi-determinant variety of tomato. The height of its powerful bushes ranges from 120 to 150 centimeters. They do not belong to the standard. These bushes are characterized by medium foliage dense leaves of medium size, having a dark green color. This type of tomato has good disease resistance, and it almost never has top and root rot. To grow such tomatoes can be both in greenhouses and in open ground.
“Chocolate” is a medium early variety, since from the moment of planting seeds into the ground to full maturity of the fruits, it takes from 110 to 115 days.
The main advantages of Chocolate tomatoes can be called:
- Large fruit.
- Excellent taste and product characteristics.
- High yield.
- Disease resistance.
- Unpretentiousness.
These tomatoes do not possess pronounced negative qualities. Formation of inflorescences of the intermediate type is typical for this variety, with the first inflorescence formed after the eighth leaf. Each brush usually forms 4-5 fruits. From one square meter of planting is usually collected from 10 to 15 kilograms of fruits of chocolate tomatoes.
Specifications
- The ripened fruit of this variety of tomato is distinguished by its red-brown color.
- Their weight ranges from 200 to 400 grams.
- These tomatoes have a slightly flat rounded shape.
- They are characterized by a fleshy consistency with an average dry matter content.
- In each tomato you can find at least four nests.
- The fruits have an excellent sweet taste.
- These tomatoes are not intended for long-term storage.
The main way to eat tomatoes of this type is to prepare fresh vegetable salads, but they can also be used for juice preparation and preservation.
Recommendations for growing
Chocolate tomato can be grown in all regions of the Russian Federation. The landing of grown-up Chocolate Tomato seedlings to a permanent place is carried out in the middle or at the end of May. It is best to form plants in two or three stems. "Chocolate" tomato needs to be tied up and pasyonka.
The main activities for the care of these tomatoes are evening watering with settled warm water, introduction of complex fertilizers, as well as loosening and weeding the soil.
Diseases and pests
Chocolate tomato is characterized by high resistance to diseases, but if you still have to deal with them, you can save the plants with the help of fungicidal preparations. And the timely treatment with insecticides will protect them from damage by pests.
Due to its unpretentiousness and high yield, the Chocolate tomato has become very popular among vegetable growers. If you want to get a rich harvest of exclusive tomatoes, plant it in your summer cottage.
