Undemanding in care, versatile in use and just a wonderful variety of tomato "Thick Jack"

This variety can be advised to those gardeners and farmers who wish to get an early harvest of fruits, without making special efforts to grow it.

Tomato Thick Jack - unpretentious and fruitful, with the fruits of good taste and aroma can be a real find for your garden.

In this article you will find a complete description of the variety, get acquainted with its characteristics, learn about the features of cultivation.

Thick Jack Tomato: variety description

A variety of early ripening. The time from planting seeds for seedlings to harvesting the first ripening fruits will be 99-104 days. Cultivation without planting on seedlings, with planting immediately on the ridge, perhaps in the southern regions of Russia, but at the same time, the time of harvest will increase by 3-5 days.

In the rest of Russia, cultivation is recommended in film shelters and greenhouses. Even with a late landing on the ridge, due to precocity, you get a very decent harvest.

Shrubs Bush Thick Jack is low, up to 50 centimeters tall, rather sprawling. It is advised to remove the side shoots when the formation is more than 4-5 stems, but such cases are quite rare, therefore, no additional shearing is required.

The number of leaves is average. The leaves are the usual form and color for the tomato. Experienced gardeners are advised to remove the lower leaves to improve the ventilation of the soil.

Advantages of the Fat Jack variety:

• low bush;
• large size of fruits;
• good yield (up to 6 kg);
• unpretentious care;
• early maturity;
• unnecessary pasynkovaniya.

According to reviews received from many gardeners who grew this variety, except for the requirement of cultivation in the greenhouse, there were no particular deficiencies.

The yield of other varieties can be found in the table below:

Specifications

The fruits of this variety have the following characteristics:

• flat-round shape;
• average weight is 240-320 grams;
• well-defined red color, rarely dark pink;
• the use of tomatoes is often salad, but is well suited for pastes, juices, adzhika, showed itself well when salting;
• good presentation, high safety during transportation;
• average yield - one bush gives 5-6 kilograms of fruit.

Compare the weight of the fruits of the variety Thick Jack with others you can in the table below:

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Photo tomato "Fat Jack":

Features of growing

Pre-treated with a 2% solution of potassium permanganate seeds are planted on seedlings in early April. You can use special mini-greenhouses for seedlings and growth promoters.

In the period of 1-2 sheets to make a pick, combining with fertilizing complex mineral fertilizer. After the soil has warmed up, seedlings should be planted in the wells with a handful of shattered eggshell in each.

During the period of flowering and the formation of the fruit is advised to hold two additional feeding. The shrub does not require tying up, which greatly simplifies the gardeners care of planted plants.

After landing on a permanent place agrotechnical methods are standard: watering, loosening, mulching.

The following products and preparations can be safely used as fertilizers.:

• Banana peel.
• Iodine.
• Ash.
• Yeast.
• Hydrogen peroxide.
• Ammonia.
• Boric acid.

Diseases and pests

The variety is resistant to major diseases of the nightshade. However, information about the diseases of tomatoes in greenhouses and how to combat them may be useful to you.

Read about the most basic of them:

• Alternaria
• Fusarium
• Verticillosis.
• Late blight and measures of protection against it.

As well as varieties resistant to late blight and not susceptible to other diseases, varieties capable of their resistance to infection to give a good result of the harvest.

When growing tomatoes, it is important to know what kind of plants these or other varieties belong to.

Read all about indeterminant varieties, as well as about determinant, semi-determinant and super determinant varieties.

As for pests, the most common of them - the Colorado potato beetle, a bear, slugs, spider mites. And the most effective means for their destruction - insecticides.

Gardeners who have tested the variety "Fat Jack" on their plots include him in the list of constantly planted early, large-fruited tomatoes. Farmers can recommend this variety for the possibility of early filling the market with fresh, tasty, well tolerated tomatoes.

In the table below you will find links to varieties of tomatoes with different ripening terms:

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