Tomato "Amur Tiger": variety description, reviews

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The Amur Tiger tomato is characterized by a bright, unusual, striped color. This is a young variety, included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of Russia in 2015, although it began to be grown much earlier. Initially, it began to be cultivated in areas with a difficult climate for agriculture. Later, the variety spread throughout the country.

Description

Tomato bushes "Amur tiger" are tall. In greenhouse conditions, they can reach two or more meters. When grown outdoors, they are lower at about 150 cm tall.

To let the last tomatoes pour, the plant is limited in growth. Usually pinching is carried out a month before the expected end of the season. Due to the restriction of stem growth, all fruits have time to gain weight. Those that do not mature on the plant ripen indoors.

Tomato "Amur tiger" begins to ripen on the 110th day from the moment of germination. The bush bears fruit stretched, allowing you to harvest throughout the summerseason.

Tassels with 4-6 fruits are formed on the plant. With proper care from one plant, you can collect up to four kilograms of excellent tomatoes.

The Amur Tiger tomato variety is resistant to diseases such as Alternaria, tobacco mosaic virus. In the cold season, it can be damaged by late blight. To prevent this from happening, it is recommended to carry out preventive treatment of plants with fungicidal preparations strictly according to the instructions. Be sure to remove the lower leaves by 1/3 of the height of the bush. This procedure enhances ventilation.

Due to the peculiarities of growth, the Amur Tiger tomato requires a garter, shaping. To increase the yield, bushes should be kept in three stems, removing all the resulting side shoots.

Younger brother

According to reviews, the Amur Tiger tomato is not the only variety with an unusual striped color. He has a "younger brother" called "Tiger Cub". It is characterized by:

• early ripening period;
• striped fruit color;
• small fruit size;
• similar in structure to the Amur Tiger;
• low rise.

Tiger Tomatoes

According to its characteristics, the Amur Tiger tomato has an unusual fruit shape. They are flat-round, with smooth ribs at the footboard. On average, one tomato weighs about two hundred grams, but on the lower brushes they can reach a weight of 0.5 kg.

In technical ripeness, tomatoes are green in color with dark, wide stripes located from the stalk totops. As it matures, the color changes to brown-red. The stripes stand out against the general background, giving the tomatoes a chic color. It is because of this feature that the variety was called "tiger".

The taste is excellent. The variety is characterized by high sugar content without noticeable sourness. The flesh is fleshy, tender, juicy, with a large number of seed chambers and small seeds. However, in cold weather and with artificial ripening, sugar content decreases, taste qualities change - tomatoes become more acidic. The sweetest tomatoes are grown in a sunny area in warm weather.

Use

The use of tomatoes is universal. However, due to their thin skin, they do not tolerate heat treatment, but when pickled with cold brine, they turn out tasty, and the striped color is preserved. The fruits are used to make sauces, juice.

Striped fruits are recommended to be consumed fresh. Any salad, cutting of them looks effective, unusual. With them you can cook sandwiches, canapes, beautiful, gourmet snacks. The pulp is suitable for cooking hot dishes.

Features of cultivation

To grow Amur Tiger tomatoes (the photo is presented in the article), you should correctly determine the timing of sowing. It is recommended to start growing seedlings 2-2.5 months before the intended planting in open ground or greenhouse.

Seeds are immersed in the soil to a depth of 1-1.5 cm. Shoots appear in a week. After germinationlower the temperature. At the stage of three true leaves, the plants dive into separate containers or are planted, maintaining a distance of 10 cm. During growth, the seedlings are not fed, but if there is a lack of natural light, additional lighting with a phytolamp is organized so that the daylight hours are at least 12 hours.

As soon as the soil warms up to +17 and above, the seedlings are transferred to open ground. A week after planting, the first fertilizing with fertilizers with a high nitrogen content is carried out. After the appearance of the first brushes with tomatoes, phosphate and potash fertilizers are applied.

Feeding is repeated after two weeks. During the pouring of fruits and their ripening, it is impossible to apply nitrogenous fertilizers, as this provokes the growth of green mass, which will occur to the detriment of fruit set.

Reviews

Judging by the photos and reviews of the Amur Tiger tomato, the fruits have a beautiful color. However, those summer residents who have already grown the crop note that they have a thin skin and are not suitable for whole-fruit canning. Ripe tomatoes are not stored for a long time. Despite their thin skin, the fruits tolerate transportation well, especially when unripe.

The opinions of summer residents differ about the variety: someone liked it, and someone harvested little, but they all talk about the excellent taste of tomatoes, meatiness.

With proper care, the plant will delight for a long time with tasty, large, beautiful fruits. As gardeners say, who liked the variety, tomatoes look perfect not only insalads, but also on the winter table. The high palatability of pickled barrel fruits is especially noted.

You can only know for sure if a variety is right for you by testing it yourself. After all, it is known that the same tomatoes will produce fruits of different taste in different areas.