Among the considerable number of existing varieties of pink tomatoes can definitely distinguish tomatoes "Pink Stella". This variety receives only the best reviews for its unpretentiousness, enviable yield and tasty fruits. In this article you will find the characteristic of the variety of the tomato "Pink Stella", a description of the plant, and also you will learn the main aspects of its successful cultivation.
Description
Sort "Pink Stella" It was bred in Altai and zoned for growing in regions with a temperate and warm climate. It feels great both in the greenhouse and in the open field. 
Bushes
Bush "Stella" compact and low - only about half a meter, from which we can conclude that the variety belongs to the determinant type. Pasynkovka this tomato does not require.
The leaves are oblong, dark green. Brushes tied through a sheet. In one brush is 6-7 fruits.
Fruit
The fruit reaches a mass of 200 g, in diameter - 10-12 cm. The form resembles pepper, with a rounded nose, slightly ribbed at the base. The color of the fruit is light crimson, uniform. The skin of the tomato is quite thin, but strong, due to which it protects the fruit from cracking. The pulp of the tomato is fleshy and juicy, different in its sugar content. It has almost no seeds. Taste tomato without acid, with a hint of fruit. 
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Characteristic variety
The variety "Pink Stella" refers to the medium early - the harvest can be obtained within 100 days after the emergence of sprouts. One of the characteristics is the yield - from one bush you can collect up to 3 kg. The variety is resistant to most common pests and diseases of tomatoes, but in the absence of proper care it can affect fungal diseases, such as late blight and brown spot.
"Pink Stella" is good for making soups and mashed potatoes. Also, these tomatoes make wonderful tomato juice. Juice is consumed both in canned form and freshly squeezed.
Advantages and disadvantages
The advantages of the vegetable include a high yield of tomato "Pink Stella". Vegetables are well stored and transported, have a wonderful presentation and good sweet taste, for which children especially like. Tomatoes tolerate any weather conditions. The bush is compact and takes a little seat.
Of the negative sides - due to the severity of the fruit, small bushes need a garter. 
Features of growing
This variety of tomatoes is suitable for growing seeds as seedlings. The best, strongest seedlings planted in open ground.
Landing dates
The size of the seedlings during planting should be 20-25 cm. It should grow from seven to nine leaves.
In warm regions, "Pink Stella" is better planted in the first half of May.
Important! The landing temperature must be greater than 12 ° C.
In temperate and northern regions, the plant is planted in early June.
When planting, it is necessary to close the vegetables with plastic wrap, otherwise the shoots may freeze. You can also cover tomatoes with lutrasil. Remove the film from the fifth to the tenth of June, when the weather has settled and the threat of frost disappears. Lutrasil can not be removed at all - it will only increase the yield.
Seed and soil preparation
Planting seedlings in warm regions from the first to the twentieth of March. In the northern and temperate regions, the "Pink Stella" is best planted from March 20 to April 10. 
For sowing you need to choose a fertile soil. The land should be free from rot and visible traces of disease. Options for preparing the soil for seedlings set. For example, we take 75% of peat, 20% of sod land and add the remaining 5% of manure. Everything is mixed and heated: this will help to disinfect the soil from pests.
Here is another way to prepare the soil for seedlings: 75% peat, 5% mullein and 20% compost. The mixture, just like the previous one, is mixed and sent to the oven or ignited for disinfection.
Seeds for planting need to take dry. You can germinate seeds - so they quickly grow. To do this, place a gauze dipped in water on a saucer. Put the seeds on it and cover them with the same gauze. After germination, the seeds are planted in the soil.
Sowing and caring for seedlings
Before planting seedlings, you must select a box for it. The most convenient for seedlings are plastic containers. They are easy to clean and disinfect. It is very convenient for gardeners. Also such containers are easily transported. 
The container should have drainage holes through which excess water from the roots will pass. Also a prerequisite when choosing a container is the presence of a pallet that does not pass water.
The procedure for planting seedlings "Pink Stella":
- Before you sow the seeds, you need to fill the container with soil that is specially prepared for seedlings of tomatoes.
- Then the soil is leveled and rammed.
- Approximately 24 hours before sowing the land should be watered abundantly. If the water remains in the pan, it must be drained.
- During sowing, seeds can be decomposed on the surface of the earth or made grooves. The distance between the rows should be up to 4 cm, between the seeds - 2 cm. Do not sow the seeds thicker: there is a chance of getting a black leg. For convenience, fold the seeds with tweezers.
- Sprinkle the seeds with earth or push it into the ground with a pen by 1 cm and sprinkle with soil. If the seeds are shallow to deepen, with poor watering they will not have enough moisture and they will not germinate. Next, sprinkle the soil with water. Put the container in heat (with a temperature of about 22 ° C).
Important! Do not place seedlings near the battery - the water from the soil will evaporate quickly and the seeds will die.
- Cover the container with a film of polyethylene, thus creating a greenhouse - so the plant will quickly germinate and moisture loss will not be as large as in the absence of a film.
- From time to time remove the film to air sprouts.
- When the first shoots appear, increase the ventilation time.
- After four days after the appearance of small plants, the film must be removed.
During the first six or seven days, the temperature should be between 25 and 28 ° C. If the temperature is lower, the tomatoes will not sprout as quickly.
After the appearance of sprouts, the temperature must be lowered. Illumination after germination needs to be increased. Daily temperature should be from 17 to 18 ° C, and night - up to 15 ° C. This temperature should be maintained for about 7 days. 
7 days after seed germination, it is necessary to raise the temperature to 22 ° C. The temperature at night should not be higher than 16 ° C. This temperature is maintained until the first leaflets and transplantation of the plant.
Before the transplant, "Pink Stella" is not watered. This is due to the fact that a strong growth of the plant can begin, which is undesirable. It is necessary to spray the ground so that it is not dry. Water is taken only warm, otherwise the plant will fall ill with a black leg. It is necessary to use only separated water.
Periodically turn the box with the sprouts so that the plant does not curl to the light side of the room.
With the appearance of several leaves you need to dive seedlings.
Did you know? The fruit of a wild tomato weighs 1 gram, and a cultivated tomato can weigh up to a kilogram and even more.
Landing in the ground and further care
Before planting sprouts in open ground, you need to pick up a landing site and prepare the soil.
Landing choose solar. It will be better if it is protected from the wind. Do not plant tomatoes in the valley - they do not like it. Neutral and slightly acidic lands are best suited. Loam will work well, but it needs to be fertilized with organic and mineral fertilizers. 
The "precursors" of tomatoes are also important. It will be good if on the place where you are going to plant tomatoes, previously grown green crops, as well as root vegetables. In the place where they grew eggplants or potatoes, it is better not to plant the "Pink Stella", as small plants can get late blight.
Before planting seedlings, it is necessary to water the soil with a solution of copper oxychloride or copper sulfate (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water). Per square meter should take up to one and a half liters of solution.
The following organic fertilizer is taken per square meter of clay soil: 1 bucket of humus for 1 bucket of sawdust and 1 bucket of peat.
You can also use mineral fertilizer: 2 cups ash 2 tablespoons of superphosphate. After feeding you need to dig the ground. When the soil is dug up, water it with a solution of potassium permanganate. This solution should be hot. Watered up to 4 liters per 1 square. m of land. A week before planting sprouts in the ground it is necessary to make the beds.
Plant your pink Stella seedlings on a cloudy day. On a sunny day, it is better to wait until the evening so that the sprouts are strong and can cope with the sun. 
When planting, make sure that the plant has enough sun and air. The distance between plants should be 40 cm, between rows - up to 50 cm. It is best to plant tomatoes in two rows.
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Before planting the plant from the container into the ground pour it - so you save the roots when you plant tomatoes. The holes are digging to the depth of the spade bayonet. They are filled to the top with water. It is necessary to wait until the water is absorbed into the ground. After that, you can remove the earthy clod from the container and put it in the hole. Tomatoes are planted vertically in the hole. Rhizome plants covered with earth. Compost is sprinkled near the stem. All this is covered with soil and watered (1.5 liters for one plant).
A peg with a height of 50 cm is placed next to each tomato. You can tie up tomatoes with the help of an arc and wire, which is suspended to a height of about one meter. Used for garter and synthetic twine.
After the seedlings are planted, it must be covered with a film of cellophane. After some time, when the weather is warm, the film needs to be removed.
Important! RAssad "Pink Stella" need an average of 9 days to adapt to the open field. While tomatoes "get used", it is better not to water them.
Watering
Water the plant should be so that water does not fall on the leaves. Otherwise the plant will fall ill. It is best to water the bushes under the root. It is better not to use sprinkling: with this method there is a decrease in the temperature of the environment and the earth. This leads to the fact that the harvest you get later - the fruits grow longer. If, when sprinkling, there is also a high humidity of the air, tomatoes can get fungal diseases. 
Watering tomatoes is best in the afternoon - so less water will evaporate. Until the fruit is set, overflow is undesirable. It is better to moisturize the ground so that the top layer is not too dry, but no more. As soon as the fruits begin to grow, they will need to be watered. Water the plant frequently and at the same time to maintain the same moisture state of the soil. If watering is irregular, tomatoes can fall ill with vertex rot.
Loosening the land
Loosening is carried out after each watering. It is also necessary to destroy the weeds. At the first loosening, its depth should be up to 12 cm - this will help saturate the roots with oxygen and warm them with the rays of the sun. Each subsequent loosening should be carried out to a depth of 5 cm. Avoid compaction of the ground: this is harmful for vegetables.
Hilling
Hilling of vegetables is necessary, as it improves the nutrition of the tomato. In addition, hilling enriches the earth with oxygen. After hilling, furrows are formed, water is retained in them. Most importantly, the stem of tomatoes is strengthened, hilling promotes the growth of rhizomes. To understand whether the “Pink Stella” needs hilling, it is possible: if there are roots at the bottom of the stem, you need to pile up, if not, it’s better not to pile it up so that the rhizome has enough air. Spud tomatoes need up to three times during the summer. 
Did you know? In some countries, a tomato is called an "apple". The Germans call him "paradise apple", and the French - "apple of love."
Mulching
To reduce the amount of watering and speed up the harvest, tomato bushes need to be mulched. Mulch vegetables with straw, peat or sawdust. Can be used as mulch fertilizer siderata. To do this, enclose the bushes of vegetables with green manure. This will help reduce weeds, loosen the soil, retain water in the soil and increase yields. When using mulch fertilizers, you can not use chemical fertilizers, as they are not necessary.
Fertilization
It is necessary to produce four supplements for the entire time of cultivation of tomatoes.
Primary feeding should be done after 21 days after planting tomatoes in the ground. Take the drug "Ideal" (1 tbsp. Spoon), nitrophoska (1 tbsp. Spoon) and dilute them with ten liters of water. Under one bush you need to pour 0.5 liters of the solution. As soon as the second flower brush has blossomed, make a second dressing. Take "Agricola Vegeta" (1 tbsp. Spoon), potassium superphosphate (1 tbsp. Spoon) and dilute the mixture with ten liters of water. You can also use an aqueous solution of Signora-Tomato (1 tablespoon per 10 liters of water). One bush water 1 liter of solution.
The third time, apply fertilizer after blooming the third flower brush. Take 1 tbsp. spoon "Ideal" and 1 tbsp. spoon nitrofoski. Dissolve the mixture in water. Water 1 square. m. land with tomatoes 5 liters of solution. After 14 days, fertilizer must be applied for the fourth time. Dilute 1 tbsp. spoon of superphosphate in 10 liters of water. On 1 square. m of land pour 10 liters of fertilizer solution. 
Good to use bird droppings. Take a barrel and fill it with half a litter. Fill the remaining free part of the barrel to the rim with water. The solution should brew for three days. Next, dilute the fertilizer with water in the ratio of 1: 15. One bush should be watered with three liters of diluted solution.
To prevent fungal diseases, bushes should be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture. Ash can also be used. In addition to the prevention of diseases, the ash solution feeds the plant with the trace elements it needs. Spraying should be done every 14 days.
If the plant is stunted in growth, it can be treated with a special solution. To do this, take 1 tablespoon of urea (you can also take the same amount of fertilizer "Ideal") and dilute it in ten liters of water. After spraying, your tomatoes will start growing quickly and you will get a wonderful harvest.
Diseases and pests of the variety
"Pink Stella" is resistant to diseases of the nightshade, but still it is better to carry out prevention. To do this, before planting tomatoes in the soil, disinfect the bed with a solution of potassium permanganate. You can also use a solution of copper sulphate.
Root and gray rot is treated with moderate watering and frequent loosening of the bed. If you notice blight on tomatoes, you should immediately remove the affected parts of the bush. After that, it is necessary to treat bushes with preparations with a high content of copper.
To combat spider mites, whitefly and thrips use insecticides. Treat the plant several times with a break of three days, and you will forget about these pests.
Aphids will help you with a solution of soap (economic). From the naked slugs will save you ammonia. 
"Pink Stella" is a tasty and high-yielding variety of tomatoes. Try to plant it, and your whole family will be happy.
