Types of tomatoes: deciphering many varieties
If you love tomatoes, you probably already know how many varieties of these delicious summer staples. But do you know what makes everyone unique? Or how to cultivate them depending on your growing environment? NO? Well, sit down comfortably and enjoy reading!
Below is a fragment Greenhouse textbook and Hoophouse breeders Andrew Mefford. Has been adapted to the network.
Types of variety of tomatoes
The enormous importance of tomatoes for growing greenhouses caused an incredible variety of varieties with specific adaptations of the greenhouse. There are varieties of almost any type that you may want to develop to grow. There are even several types – tomato and cherry hull – which are specific to the greenhouse culture.
For example, hopeless varieties represent contemporary innovations for cluster tomatoes. Tomatoes without joints do not have a cut -off layer in which a single tomato can be removed from the truss. This means that they do not fall off the cluster so easily when service. This feature is also sometimes used in field tomatoes, so selected tomatoes do not keep their goblets, which can pierce other tomatoes during harvest.
Although beef was the basis of the greenhouse tomato industry for a long time, smaller varieties have evolved along with the demand for snacks of vegetables. If you told breeders twenty years ago that grapes, cocktail and cloister tomatoes would be essential categories in the near future, they would probably not believe – if they knew what these types are.
It should be remembered that smaller varieties will be lower, more or less proportional to their size (the smaller the fruit, the lower the performance).
Grape tomatoes
Real grape tomatoes are not only oval cherry tomatoes. Grape tomatoes have their own taste and consistency profile because they are more firm and have fewer gels and seeds than cherry tomatoes. They are also usually less susceptible to cracking than cherry tomatoes. Even people who underestimate powerful tomatoes can like grape tomatoes, if they are demanding without being demanding. Good grape tomatoes are one of my favorite favorites to eat outside your hand.
Grape tomatoes tend to be a very open, dainty habit of plants that promotes air flow. Usually, they are less affected by the form of leaves than other types, although leaf mold resistance can still be useful where the pressure of the disease is high.
Cherry tomatoes and cherries
Like grape tomatoes, protected cultural cherries have open types of plants, as well as low fruit loads and crops compared to larger tomatoes. They are usually sweeter and have a better taste than larger types.
One subtype of cherry tomato is known as cherry cherry. Instead of collecting individual fruits, you collect a whole grille of tomatoes, cutting them from the plant. Cherry beams are almost exclusive to protected cultivation due to the difficulty of producing a perfectly ripe cherry cherry cherry cherry cherry. Usually on the truss there is the target number of fruit, depending on how much you can fully fill. If there is more fruit on the truss than the plant can fill, it may be necessary to buy back the last few fruits from the tip from the truss so that every fruit is perfectly filled. The main feature that distinguishes the cherry variety developed for the harvest of the truss from one to loose harvest, is that most cherry truss is absolute.
Essential features of cherry tomatoes include rapid ripening and a good shelf life, so the first fruit for ripening is not a pulp before the last fruit is ripe. These types are usually sold in boxes to protect a dainty truss and fruit. This variety depends much on the presentation, because the fact that it concerns a truss shows that it was bred in a greenhouse.
Cocktail tomatoes
Cocktail tomatoes occupy a class greater than cherry tomatoes and smaller than a cluster tomatoes. There are varieties of loose collections and varieties without ponds for cluster harvesting. This tomato class is more popular in Europe than in North America. I have the impression that Americans from North America like their tomatoes vast or compact, but not between them, and it is diversity.
Nevertheless, there is a market for this type of tomato, which can have a very good taste. It was originally popularized by one variety, Campari, which is marked and sold under this name. Sometimes it is sold as a salad tomato, which can be made two quick cuts and throw a salad.
Tomatoes for vine
Cluster tomatoes, known in the industry as tomatoes on Vine (TOVS), were bred especially for the greenhouse industry. They hired to take their place as one of the main types of tomato varieties in the greenhouse, as well as beef. On the crowded product market, the tomato industry has tried to distinguish from all other tomatoes on the shelf, especially field tomatoes. The great idea was that if you saw these stunning mature tomatoes, which were still attached to a perfectly pure vine, which could even have a breeze of the smell of tomatoes, the presentation would be so impressive, would stand out tomatoes from others in the store.
And it is very arduous to grow the perfect group of tomatoes in the field. The possibility of disease causing stains on tomato or rain causing divided tomatoes, it is much less likely that the entire tomato cluster gets out of the field in perfect condition. Another difficulty in the production of cluster tomatoes in the field is to encourage them to mature close together. Although TOV is chosen for quick maturation, the heat, so that the tomatoes ripen as soon as possible, is almost necessary to obtain the last for maturation before the first is polite.
Unfortunately, TOVS represents another example of production whose best features – threshold and taste – have been bred. Many of the most commonly grown tomatoes in the industry are varieties that prioritize production over the taste.
Despite this, some TOV varieties are much better than others and can be quite good. Most varieties are bred to produce a group of four or five medium -sized or six smaller tomatoes. The technique involves growing the entire cluster, until all tomatoes ripen, and the one at the end (the last one that matures) at least begins to show some color.
Breeders with a longer supply chain can choose a cluster with a final tomato still quite green, while breeders with a shorter supply chain can allow the end tomato to receive unharity. At this point, the cluster is cut from the plant and usually placed in a cardboard apartment in which they will be sent to minimize the amount of service.
Some of the newer TOV varieties are absolute to minimize the amount of tomatoes that fall from the cluster. Many wholesalers have very strict standards and buy only clusters with a number of tomatoes. The usefulness of durability and “green parts” (Calyx and Stem), which remain green for a long time, are essential development criteria for this type.
As someone who visited greenhouses with garbage cans full of tomatoes outside, I saw first hand that the length of the shelf life is not only academic. If durability is a problem for you, you can do one of the most basic tests of useful life. Take several varieties at the same level of maturity, place them in boxes, hold them in conditions similar to what they will be stored on, and check which rot faster.
Beef
Beef tomatoes were once the main type of greenhouse, originally produced to compete with off -season off -season production. Restrictions on growing off -road varieties in greenhouses quickly led to the development of dedicated greenhouses.
For people who are not familiar with the product industry, I am sure that it seems strangely to say that one of the last things considered in the development of many fresh varieties of tomatoes is taste. But when you think about how many more breeding goals are, you can understand how it happened, however unfortunate. Beef varieties are now subject to the same rigors as other varieties of tomatoes, namely, to meet the highest standards of appearance, crop and durability.
One way to boost life life is to grow stronger tomatoes, to the extent that some of them are quite demanding, even when they are completely mature. There are many stunning absorption tomatoes in the glasshouse. Many of them look much better than they like. Taste fresh varieties to make sure that they are in line with your taste and consistency standards before planting many of them.
One of the ways in which cultural producers protected to distinguish their products from beef is collecting with cripples. Because most of the field tomatoes are collected in containers, criles are removed by collectors so that the stems do not apply other fruits. The fact that the greenhouse tomatoes are usually collected in one layer straight to the apartments in which they are sent, it means that Kacki can be left without the risk of puncturing other fruits.
If the harvest methods include the accumulation of tomatoes, collectors can squeeze the stems and leave the kaleks while collecting. Even if consumers do not know what Calyx is, it makes a nice presentation leave her. The curved scissors are useful for cutting off the stem with the upper part of the tomato.