Tomato Doll F1: reviews of those who planted about productivity, characteristics and description of the variety, photos of Sedek seeds

Description of tomato Doll

Tomato Doll f1 is a determinate type plant, the bushes are compact, grow from 50 cm to 1 m, well leafy. The variety requires pinching and obligatory gartering of shoots. The leaves are small, dark green, the flowers are yellow.

Tomato variety Doll f1 is early ripening, tomatoes will ripen in 3.5 months, yield is good.

Description of fruits

Tomatoes of this variety are distinguished by their regular round shape. Their skin is smooth, shiny, dense, and colored bright red. The pulp of the Kukla f1 fruit is sweet, juicy, without sourness. In cross-section, the tomatoes are four-chambered and have few seeds. The average weight of the fruits of this hybrid reaches 150 g. The table shows the indicators of other varieties:

Important!
To grow tomatoes weighing up to 200 g, you need to apply regular fertilizing. The variety is valued for the aroma of fresh fruits, which is preserved even when preserved.

Pests and diseases

The Kukla hybrid is practically not affected by tobacco mosaic and does not suffer from verticillium wilt, which often leads to the death of nightshade crops. Tomatoes are not afraid of late blight, since the fruits ripen quickly and the bushes stop growing. To prevent the plants from getting sick, which happens with high air humidity, they are sprayed using Fitosporin.

Whiteflies and aphids feast on tomato leaves, and mole crickets eat up the roots. To combat pests, the bushes are treated with tobacco dust, the ground is watered with ash solutions, infusions of onion and garlic peels.

Spraying with fungicides helps to cope with the Colorado potato beetle, which feeds on young leaves.

Characteristic

Tomato Kukla f1 is a fairly productive and early ripening variety. There are many flower clusters on one plant, each bearing up to six fruits. Summer residents fell in love with the variety for its endurance and ability to resist diseases.

Productivity and fruiting

Judging by the reviews, the Kukla f1 tomato produces up to 8 kg of marketable fruit per bush in open ground. In greenhouses, the yield reaches 10 kg per plant, which is higher than that of other known varieties.

The variety is unpretentious in care, but for a large harvest it needs stable feeding throughout the season.

Fruiting is extended, the first tomatoes can be harvested in July, the peak yield occurs in August - September.

In open ground, Kukla f1 bushes bear fruit until frost; in a heated greenhouse, the tomato season can be extended until November.

The yield of the Kukla f1 variety is stable and does not depend on the vagaries of the weather. The yield of marketable products is from 85 to 95%.

Area of ​​application of fruits

Tomato Doll f1 is well transported and stays fresh for a long time. The harvest is suitable for salads and all types of processing. Juice and ketchup are made from Kukla tomatoes and used for whole-fruit canning.

Resistance to diseases and pests

The Kukla f1 variety has good immunity and high resistance to pests. Tomato is practically not affected by late blight and other fungal diseases. Of the pests, the only pests that plague the bushes are the Colorado potato beetle and aphids.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

The Doll tomato has many advantages:

• versatility of fruit use;
• excellent taste;
• pleasant tomato aroma;
• enviable productivity;
• compact size of bushes;
• high immunity;
• good resistance to weather vagaries;
• friendly return of the harvest;
• early fruit ripening;
• good seed germination.

In addition, the plants do not require special care. The seedlings are strong and quickly take root in a new place.

However, during the growing process, summer residents identified shortcomings of the Kukla f1 variety, which you should be aware of before planting tomatoes in the garden. We are talking about timely watering of the bushes, without which it will not be possible to harvest juicy tomatoes.

Important! The tomato variety Doll f1 is a hybrid, so collecting your own seeds for further propagation will not work. To grow seedlings, you will have to purchase seeds from the manufacturer every year.

A little about hybrids

The tomato variety Kukla is a hybrid. This means that it has high yield and genetic resistance to disease. Hybrids have proven themselves to be excellent and the number of their fans is increasing every year.

There is no need to collect the seeds of hybrids - the splitting of characteristics in the offspring will lead to the fact that it will differ from its parent, and the power of heterosis, which gives hybrids abundant fruiting and vitality, does not operate in the second generation. But the annual purchase of high-quality seeds from a reputable manufacturer is worth it. A good harvest is guaranteed to you.

Growing rules

Tomato Doll f1 is grown according to the standard scheme. The variety is unpretentious and does not cause much trouble.

Planting seedlings

They start growing seedlings for open ground in the second half of March or the very beginning of April. If you plan to plant tomatoes in greenhouses, the timing will be delayed by several weeks. For film shelters, seedlings are prepared from the first half of March. For a heated greenhouse, sowing is carried out at the end of February.

Tomato seeds Doll f1 are prepared in advance for planting. They must be disinfected. If the planting material has already been processed and there is information on the packaging, then this step is skipped.

Tomato seeds are disinfected in a solution of potassium permanganate or Fitosporin. Soak the planting material for 30 minutes and then dry it well.

Sowing is done in containers for seedlings, which are washed in advance, sprayed with disinfectants and filled with nutritious soil. As a soil mixture, use a ready-made store-bought substrate or your own preparation. Mix in equal proportions:

• peat;
• leaf humus;
• turf ground.

Add a little sand or perlite to the mixture to create a loose structure. The self-produced substrate is disinfected before use in any convenient way.

For planting seeds, grooves with a depth of 1.5–2 cm are formed. The distance between the seeds is maintained up to 2 cm. After planting, the soil is moistened with a spray bottle, and the container is covered with film. Friendly shoots appear at a temperature of +23–25 °C on the fifth day.

Tomato seedlings are picked at the stage of the second true leaf. For transplantation, separate 0.5 liter containers are used. In them, plants are grown until planted in a permanent place.

During the growth process, seedlings are fed several times with complex mineral fertilizer. For the first time, fertilizing is applied two weeks after picking, then 10 days before planting in the ground.

Transfer

The age of tomato seedlings Kukla f1 before transplanting is 55–60 days. It makes no sense to grow it on the windowsill for longer; the plants will not give good results in the future. In addition, overgrown seedlings take root worse in the garden.

The timing of transplanting seedlings into open ground and greenhouses depends on the growing region. As a rule, tomatoes are transferred to an unprotected bed at the end of May. You can plant it under film cover a month earlier.

The planting pattern for the tomato Doll f1 is standard for low-growing varieties. Between bushes leave up to 40 cm, row spacing is about 50 cm. Ideally, per 1 sq. m place up to six plants.

During planting, plants are buried down to the cotyledon leaves so that they grow additional roots for nutrition.

Aftercare

Caring for tomatoes is easy. The bushes require moderate pinching; only thickening shoots and leaves are removed. Watering of the Kukla variety is carried out regularly; without it, the fruits will not pour well and there will be no characteristic sugar content in the taste. Moisten the soil only with warm water in the afternoon. To maintain soil moisture, use organic mulch.

For a good harvest, the Kukla variety is fed several times. They use various folk recipes or ready-made fertilizers. Feeding with iodine, yeast, boric acid and ash gives good results.

Important! To get the maximum harvest from the bushes, do not plant tomatoes after nightshade crops and peppers. Good predecessors for tomatoes are garlic, cucumbers, parsley, cabbage, and onions.

Receiving and planting seedlings

Sowing of seeds to obtain seedlings is carried out at the end of March, and planting of seedlings in a permanent place is carried out after 40 days for a greenhouse and after 60 for open ground.

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Rules for obtaining seedlings:

1. Hybrid seeds do not require preliminary disinfection, since they undergo the necessary processing before going on sale.
2. Large shallow containers are selected for sowing. You can purchase soil at a specialty store or prepare the soil yourself. To do this, take turf soil, black soil, humus and a small amount of sand.
3. The bottom of the container should have a drainage layer - for this, expanded clay is poured so that excess liquid does not accumulate. This is a preventative measure for the development of fungal disease.
4. Soil is poured over the drainage layer and small depressions of 1 cm are made. Next, seed is placed in the grooves, keeping a distance of 3 cm. The seeds are sprinkled with the remaining soil and irrigated with water using a spray bottle.
5. Containers with seeds are covered with film or glass to create greenhouse conditions. Crops should be ventilated regularly.
6. After this, the crops are removed to a well-lit and warm place. Spraying is carried out every two days.

As soon as the first gatherings appear, the shelter is removed. The temperature is reduced to 19 degrees. Watering is carried out as the soil dries. Seedlings are picked when two true leaves appear. At the same time, the root is pinched to 1 cm. The transplanted plants are planted in peat cups and watered under the root. Two weeks before planting, the seedlings need to be hardened off by taking them outside.

Technology of planting seedlings:

1. For planting, choose light, fertile soil where cucumber, garlic or cabbage used to grow.
2. Rotted manure or compost is added in advance.
3. The depth of the holes corresponds to the length of the root system, the distance between them is 70 cm.
4. Overgrown soil is planted at an angle of 45 degrees.

Then all that remains is to water the seedlings generously and tie the plants to the support.

How is the Doll different?

Characteristics of tomatoes The doll is usually described on a bag of seeds. Among them are the hybrid dolls Masha, Dasha, Katya. These tomatoes are early-ripening varieties; they are usually planted in April, and the first vegetables are already harvested in July. They are very sweet and tasty, they are mainly added to fresh salads or chopped. They rarely preserve or make healthy juices. They contain a lot of vitamins A, C, B, useful acids and minerals.

The bushes are quite tall, they need to be tied up and excess shoots trimmed. Leaves and flowers are the same as regular varieties. The bushes bring a large harvest.

The fruits are pink or red, very large, sometimes reaching up to 450 grams. Their shape is round, slightly flattened at the bottom and top. The peculiarity of these tomatoes is that the flesh is very fleshy and sweet, and has a pleasant aroma. They can be grown in any area by anyone, knowing all the requirements for caring for them.

Criteria for selecting tomatoes

When choosing the names of tomatoes, you should focus on the type of crop, in particular, what it is in terms of ripeness and the height (growth) of the bushes.

For example, a distinctive feature of the F1 Doll is its ultra-early maturation and short stature. It is these features that are most appropriate when determining the names of tomatoes for the middle latitude of the Russian Federation. However, what do they mean?

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The sign of determinacy in tomatoes indicates the degree of stem elongation. For example, indeterminate plants grow throughout the season without stopping the growth of the stem. At the same time, they can reach a height of as much as two meters. In this connection, pinching is a mandatory principle of care for such plants. Quite a few ovaries are formed on them, but there is no need to talk about their early ripeness.

With the Kukla tomato it’s the other way around - the tomatoes ripen early, the shoots are limited in growth. Late July - August - the bushes delight with their tomatoes, the shoots stop growing in height.

For those vegetable growers who have little experience in gardening and have their own greenhouse, they should start exclusively with determinate tomatoes. For example, such as Doll and Doll Masha, and gradually move on to growing intermediate crops (semi-determinates), in which growth, although intensive, is not strong, like indeterminates.

To enjoy ripe tomatoes at the height of summer, you need to breed ultra-early ripening tomatoes for greenhouses and open ground with a ripening period of mainly up to 90 days.

As an example, we give the most common and early ripening tomato varieties in vegetable growing (the number of days to maturity is indicated in parentheses): Aphrodite (75), Maksimka (75), Marisha (80), Benito (70), Kukla (85). And not hybrids - Parodist (80), Far North (85).

Tomatoes are selected extremely rarely based on such a parameter as the shelf life of tomato seeds. Since in most varieties it does not exceed 5-6 years. Here, more attention is paid to another criterion that applies to seeds - the possibility of independently preparing planting material from tomatoes obtained in your own backyard. If you need to get your own seeds every time, varieties with the F1 additive are not suitable for this. Their seeds are only bought and done every year in the spring, before directly sowing seedlings.

Rules for breeding ultra-early hybrids

After which, low-growing tomatoes (Kukla, Masha Doll) are transferred to greenhouse soil in the form of seedlings at different times depending on the climate of the area. For the south of the country - this is the 15th of May, for regions in the middle latitude - the beginning of summer, for the north - weather with a temperature of 14-15 degrees, that is, mid-June.

Tomatoes love loamy and sandy loam soils, enriched with humus and showing a neutral reaction. The ridges or greenhouse are placed in an area protected from the wind, well heated by the sun. Fresh manure is not applied to low-growing tomatoes; humus is placed in the holes (a bucket for a couple of holes). Planting pattern - 30x40 (for ultra-early ones).

Having discovered the Kukla tomato variety, some vegetable growers discover that with minimal effort they can harvest decent yields even in risky farming areas.

Features of care

When a flower cluster appears on a tomato of the Kukla variety, the stepsons are cut off, leaving only those located above it. The bushes are tied to a support. The shoots growing from the axils of the leaves, which take away the strength of the tomatoes, are pinched. Hybrid care includes:

• feeding;
• watering;
• loosening the soil;
• weed and pest control.

Tomatoes need mineral fertilizers and organic matter. Three weeks after planting, a spoonful of nitrophoska, which contains microelements such as potassium, nitrogen, and phosphorus, is dissolved in a bucket of water. The composition is poured under the root of the hybrid.

After 14 days, they resort to a second feeding of tomatoes, using potassium salt and superphosphate. Next time, complex fertilizers are replaced with wood ash. Fertilizing with humate accelerates the ripening of tomatoes. A spoon of this product is enough for 10 liters of water.

If there is a lack of moisture, the leaves on tomatoes curl, the yield decreases, and if there is too much moisture, the fruits crack and the taste deteriorates. Before the ovary appears, one watering per week is enough; when the tomatoes are hanging on the bushes, the plant needs less water, but moisten the soil under the tomatoes in the evening or morning every 3 days.

How to grow

Tomatoes are grown in northern latitudes in greenhouses. They are planted as seedlings from sprouted seeds. Therefore, around April, they begin to sow seeds in containers. Seedlings are planted in the soil in May-June, when the ground is warm and there are no longer frosts at night. The soil in greenhouses must first be dug up and provided with fertilizers.

Mature, strong shoots are planted in the greenhouse at a distance of about 40-50 centimeters from each other. If they are planted too close, it will be very inconvenient to approach the bushes to hill them and harvest them.

Watering is necessary before planting. While adaptation is taking place, it is better to leave the tomatoes alone, and after ten days, water them again, loosen the soil and feed them. Watering should be at the root, not on the foliage. The foliage is lightly sprayed.

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The very first harvest is obtained at the end of July. The fruits grow almost simultaneously, ideally they are even, the same size and bright pink in color.