Choosing tomatoes for your garden, you should pay attention to the variety Gulliver - early ripe, productive and undemanding to care.
These tomatoes ripen in unison, great for canning and cooking various dishes.
If you need a complete description of the variety, its characteristics and cultivation features, read about all this in our article. We will also tell you about which diseases Gulliver is prone to, and which is able to resist.
Tomato Gulliver: variety description
Grade name | Gulliver |
general description | Early ripe, determinant high-yielding hybrid of the Russian selection for cultivation in greenhouses and an open ground. |
Originator | Russia |
Ripening | 95-100 days |
The form | Fruits of the extended form with a rounded tip |
Colour | Red pink |
Average tomato mass | 200 grams |
Application | The variety is suitable for the preparation of salads, soups, sauces, juices, canning |
Yield varieties | 7 kg from a bush |
Features of growing | Agrotechnika standard |
Disease resistance | The hybrid is well against major diseases, but preventive measures do not interfere |
The grade of the Russian selection, is intended for cultivation in greenhouses from polycarbonate or glass, in hotbeds and under a film. In regions with a warm climate, it is possible to land in open ground. Harvested fruits are well stored, tolerate transportation without any problems.
Gulliver - a high-yielding early ripe grade. Shrubs deterministic, compact, up to 70 cm in height. About indeterminant varieties read here. Sheet weight is moderate.
Formation in 2 or 3 stalks with the help of beefing is recommended, heavy branches with fruits require tying. Tomatoes ripen amicably, fruiting lasts from July to September. The yield is very good, with proper care from the bush can remove up to 7 kg of tomatoes.
You can compare the yield of a variety with others in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Gulliver | 7 kg from a plant |
Polbyg | 4 kg from a plant |
Kostroma | 5 kg from a bush |
Lazy man | 15 kg per square meter |
Fat jack | 5-6 kg from a plant |
Lady shedi | 7.5 kg per square meter |
Bella Rosa | 5-7 kg per square meter |
Dubrava | 2 kg from a bush |
Batyana | 6 kg from a bush |
Pink spam | 20-25 kg per square meter |
Specifications
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- tasty and beautiful fruits;
- good yield;
- tomatoes are suitable for salads and canning;
- disease resistance;
- undemanding to growing conditions.
There are practically no flaws in the variety. The only difficulty is tying up heavy branches that can break under the weight of the fruit.
Characteristics of the fruit:
- The fruits are large, fleshy, very beautiful.
- The average weight of a tomato is about 200 g, but often larger specimens grow to 800 g.
- During ripening, the color changes from light green to deep red-pink.
- Tomatoes are elongated, cylindrical, with a rounded tip.
- The flesh is tender, juicy, sugary, seed pods are small.
- The dense glossy peel protects fruits from cracking.
The weight of the fruits of other varieties you can see in the table below:
Grade name | Fruit weight |
Gulliver | 200 grams |
Red Guard | 230 grams |
Diva | 120 grams |
Yamal | 110-115 grams |
The Golden Fleece | 85-100 grams |
Red Arrow | 70-130 grams |
Raspberry jingle | 150 grams |
Verlioka | 80-100 grams |
Countryman | 60-80 grams |
Caspar | 80-120 grams |
The variety is suitable for making salads, soups, sauces, juices. Smooth, thin-skinned tomatoes are good for canning, they are salted, pickled, dried.
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Features of growing
Seeds are sown on seedlings in early March, 60-70 days should pass before transplanting into the ground. Preferred light soil from a mixture of garden soil with peat or humus. Seeds before planting are soaked in a growth stimulator and sown with a depth of 2 cm.
Most often they are sown in a container, but it is also possible to plant in small peat pots. Individual packaging excludes subsequent picks. For better germination capacity cover film and placed in heat. You can use special mini-greenhouses.
After the sprouts appear, tomatoes need a bright light. In cloudy weather, the seedlings are illuminated with electric lamps. Sprouts sprinkled with warm settled water, preferably from a spray bottle or a small-caved leuke. After unfolding of 2-3 leaves, a picking is carried out. Seedlings are fed with liquid complex fertilizer, the second feeding is carried out before the transfer to a permanent place.
Planted in a greenhouse need in the second half of May. In each well poured on 1 tbsp. spoon complex mineral fertilizers. During the season, the plants are fed 3-4 times, alternating potash and phosphate fertilizers with organic matter. How to prepare the soil in the greenhouse, read here. As for dressings, they are used as:
- Yeast.
- Iodine.
- Hydrogen peroxide.
- Ammonia.
- Ash.
- Boric acid.
Watering is carried out every 6-7 days, in between, the top layer of soil should dry out. As the fruits ripen, the branches are tied to a support. For successful formation of ovaries, the formation of a bush in 2 or 3 stems is recommended.
Pests and diseases
The variety is insensitive to fungal and viral diseases. However, during the thickening of the landings, infections are possible. Warn them will help frequent airing, removing the lower leaves on the bush and mulching the soil.
It is useful to sprinkle young plants with phytosporin, pale pink solution of potassium permanganate and copper-containing preparations. Dried or damaged leaves and fruits are immediately destroyed.
In greenhouses, plants can be affected by aphids, thrips or spider mites. To prevent the occurrence of pests will help airing and timely destruction of weeds.
Plants affected by aphids are washed with warm soapy solution; insecticides will help to destroy the mite. Processing is carried out 2-3 times with an interval of several days. After the start of fruiting, it is prohibited to use toxic drugs.
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Gulliver is a good choice for greenhouse and greenhouse owners. Tomatoes need timely feeding and tying, with proper care, the plants will thank for their excellent yield.
In the table below you will find links to other varieties of tomatoes with different ripening periods:
Mid-season | Middle late | Medium early |
Chocolate Marshmallow | French grapevine | Pink Bush F1 |
Gina TST | Golden Crimson Miracle | Flamingo |
Striped chocolate | Miracle of the market | Openwork |
Ox heart | gold fish | Chio Chio San |
Black Prince | De Barao Red | Supermodel |
Auria | De Barao Red | Budenovka |
Mushroom basket | De Barao Orange | F1 major |