We will make a reservation right away, in the article we will talk about tomato, a variety of which is intended for industrial cultivation in greenhouses. But this does not mean at all that this variety cannot be used when growing on your personal plot and for personal consumption. The Tomato President (the full name of the variety President II F1), specifically I want to talk about this variety, was bred as a professional hybrid to obtain the most effective mass yield of finished products with increased ability to sparing transportation.
For an experienced gardener, the target orientation of such a hybrid as the President's tomatoes becomes clear. Speaking in an accessible language, this variety was originally intended for a profitable sale and, therefore, must meet some mandatory indicators in this case. First of all, the President’s tomato must have a very attractive presentation, that is, its fruits should be quite large and “pink-cheeked”.
In reality, the President’s tomato variety is famous for the fact that the average weight of one fruit is 200 to 300 g each. The color of this tomato is not in doubt in its natural origin and does not differ in exotics - it is a completely bright and colorful shade of scarlet, characteristic of a traditional tomato. The second condition for hybrids of this purpose is reliable transportability in conditions of transportation along our roads, famous all over the world. Therefore, the skin of the tomato should be sufficiently firm and strong, and the flesh should be resistant to deformation. So it is, plus, the tomato itself has a round shape, flattened at the "poles".
The resistance of tomatoes of this variety to all kinds of diseases is enviable, otherwise he would not have gained such popularity among farmers. In a sense, the tomato President is a ripening champion. The total time from planting in open ground to picking ripe fruit is only 68-70 days. The specialist understands that if you plant seedlings at the end of January, then by mid-July we will get beautiful and ripe tomatoes on the shelves of our bazaars and shops. In a word, a completely acceptable industrial variety, designed to please us with its fruits in the shortest possible time. Its main consumer purpose is the use in food in the form of salads and additives to “young” borsch or as a raw material for healthy and beloved tomato juice.
There is some prejudice against the population for vegetables grown industrially. Allegedly, hybrids of such varieties are almost genetically modified and completely tasteless. It is difficult to judge from the point of view of a professional taster, but any specialist knows well that the taste qualities of any vegetable primarily depend solely on compliance with the cultivation technology. As for the genetic nature of the origin of tomatoes of this variety, our institutes of sanitary hygiene conducted a number of studies and confirmed that the President tomato was completely free of any genetic modifications, and allowed it to be used as seed for our vegetable growers.
The fact that some of them can take up to thirty kilograms of tomato fruits from one square meter of their greenhouses and do this for our needs all year round only adds to this hybrid of attractiveness. Tomatoes are made delicious by the art of chefs who can prepare the most exquisite dishes from them. Indeed, it is not in vain that in old Europe the second name was assigned to tomatoes, literally translated as "paradise apples", and the President variety, by its size and juiciness of the fruit, is able to surpass any apple.