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Everyone loves tomatoes for their bright, rich taste, which absorbs all the aromas of summer. Among the huge variety of these vegetables, everyone will find for themselves the one that will best suit their taste preferences: dense beef tomatoes and the most delicate sweet cherry tomatoes, soft-tasting white-fruited tomatoes and rich orange-fruited varieties, bright as the sun. The list could take a long time.
In addition to their delicious taste, these vegetables have another undeniable advantage: tomatoes are very healthy. Their considerable vitamin content, antioxidants and lycopene make them indispensable in the diet of most people. Compared to the traditional cabbage, cucumbers and turnips that have long settled in our gardens, tomatoes can be called newcomers. And if gardeners have been using varietal tomatoes for a relatively long time, hybrids began to be bred only about 100 years ago.
What is a tomato hybrid
To obtain hybrids, varieties with mutually exclusive properties are selected. The science of genetics helps to select them most accurately. This takes into account the qualities that we would like to see in the new hybrid. For example, one parent will give it large fruit, and the other will give it the ability for early harvest and resistance to diseases. Therefore, hybrids have greater vitality than their parent forms.
Most tomato hybrids are intended for commercial production of small-sized, leveled fruits. Various canned foods are made from them. But there are also exceptions. For example, the Panekra F 1 tomato. Possessing all the attractive properties of tomato hybrids - high yield, excellent adaptation to any growing conditions and resistance to diseases, it produces consistently large fruits intended for fresh consumption. So that gardeners can better navigate when choosing tomato seeds for planting, we provide a full description and characteristics of the Panekra F 1 hybrid, as well as its photo.
Description and characteristics
The tomato hybrid Panekra F1 was created by the Swiss company Syngenta, whose branch is located in Holland. It is not included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements because it has not passed the necessary tests, but the reviews from those gardeners who planted it are mostly positive.
Hybrid Panekra F1 is intended for cultivation in greenhouses. Its fruits are harvested in spring and summer. It belongs to indeterminate tomatoes, i.e. it does not stop growing on its own. Thanks to this, the yield of the Panekra F1 tomato is very high. The fruits are leveled and retain their weight and size throughout the entire growing season, which makes it possible to obtain almost 100% of marketable products.
It sets fruit well even in extreme heat. Despite their large size, tomatoes are not prone to cracking.
Panekra F1 tomatoes are very powerful, they have a developed root system, which allows plants to grow on any, even poor soils, drawing nutrition from the lower soil layers.
Hybrid Panekra F1 is an early ripening variety - the first ripe tomatoes are harvested 2 months after planting the seedlings.
Fruit characteristics
- tomato hybrid Panekra F1 belongs to beef tomatoes, therefore the fruits are very dense, fleshy;
- their thick skin makes them transportable, these tomatoes store well;
- the color of Panekra F1 tomatoes is dark red, the shape is rounded-flattened with barely noticeable ribs;
- on the first bunch the weight of tomatoes can reach up to 400-500 g, in subsequent bunches it is slightly less - up to 300 g, and this remains the case throughout the entire growing period;
- the yield of the Panekra F1 tomato is simply amazing - it can form up to 15 clusters with 4-6 fruits in each;
- The fruits are intended for fresh consumption.
But it will not be superfluous in personal farms either, since it is a leader in its segment.
Giving a characterization and description of the Panekra F1 hybrid, one cannot fail to mention its complex resistance to a number of diseases. He is not affected:
- a strain of tomato mosaic virus (ToMV);
- verticillium (V);
- Fusarium wilt of tomato (Fol 1-2);
- cladosporiosis - brown spot (Ff 1-5);
- fusarium root rot (For);
- nematode (M).
Panekra F1 - greenhouse tomato. Farmers grow it in heated greenhouses, so seeds for seedlings are sown very early and grown under lighting so that seedlings can be planted in March. Most gardeners do not have heated greenhouses. They grow Panekra F1 tomato in a regular greenhouse.
Features of cultivation
Indeterminate varieties and hybrids Tomatoes are grown only by seedlings.
Growing seedlings
Indeterminate tomato seedlings are ready for planting approximately 2 months after germination. Usually the seeds are sown in mid-March. The Syngenta company produces tomato seeds already treated with disinfectants and growth stimulants. They don’t even need to be soaked before sowing. Sow dry seeds in soil consisting of peat, humus and turf soil, taken in equal parts. For each ten-liter bucket of the mixture add 3 teaspoons of complete mineral fertilizer and ½ cup of ash. The soil is moistened.
For the initial cultivation of seedlings, a plastic container about 10 cm high is well suited. You can sow the seeds directly into individual cassettes or cups.
To preserve heat, the container with the sown seeds is placed in a plastic bag.
After germination, the container is transferred to a bright place. The temperature is reduced to 20 degrees during the day and 14 at night for several days. Then the optimal daytime temperature for seedlings is about 23 degrees.
If the tomatoes are sown in a container, when 2 true leaves appear, they are picked into separate cassettes or cups. At this time, a 200-gram container is enough for young sprouts. But after 3 weeks you will have to transfer it into a larger container - about 1 liter in volume. The same procedure is carried out with plants growing in separate cups.
Water the seedlings as the surface layer of soil dries. Feed Panekra F1 tomatoes once every 10 days with a weak solution of complete mineral fertilizer.
The longer the internodes of indeterminate tomatoes, the fewer clusters they will eventually be able to set.
Transplanting
This is carried out when the soil in the greenhouse has a temperature of at least 15 degrees. The greenhouse should be disinfected in the fall, and the soil should be prepared and filled with humus, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers.
Indeterminate tomatoes of the Panekra F1 hybrid are placed at a distance of 60 cm in the row and the same amount between the rows. It is very useful to mulch the planted plants with a layer of mulching material 10 cm thick. Hay, straw, pine litter or wood chips are suitable. If you decide to use fresh sawdust, they need to be moistened with a solution of ammonium nitrate, otherwise there will be large losses of nitrogen. Rotted sawdust does not need this procedure.
Hybrid care
Panekra F1 is an intensive type tomato. In order for it to fully realize its yield potential, it needs to be watered and fed on time.
There is no rain in the greenhouse, so maintaining optimal soil moisture is the responsibility of the gardener. The most convenient way to do this is with drip irrigation. It will give the plants the necessary moisture, and the air in the greenhouse will remain dry. The tomato leaves will also be dry. This means that the risk of developing diseases caused by fungal microorganisms is minimal.
Feed Panekra F1 tomatoes once a decade with a solution of complete mineral fertilizer with microelements.
This indeterminate hybrid tends to form many stepsons, and therefore requires mandatory formation.It needs to be grown in 1 stem, only in the southern regions it is possible to grow it in 2 stems, but then the plants need to be planted less often, otherwise the fruits will become smaller. Stepchildren are removed weekly, preventing them from depleting the plant.
More information about growing tomatoes in a greenhouse can be seen in the video:
If you need a tomato with high yield and excellent taste of the fruit, choose Panekra F1. He won't let you down.
