Tomato Indigo Rose: variety description, cultivation, reviews

If you are an experimental gardener, you probably noticed the varieties of black tomatoes. We will analyze one of the most unusual and high-yielding - the tomato of Indigo Rose. Description of the variety, photos, features of planting and care, reviews of gardeners - more.

Violet (dark) tomatoes

The selection of tomatoes with dark skins originates in the sixties of the last century. Bulgarian scientists crossed wild varieties of tomatoes from Chile and the Galapagos Islands with local dark varieties (Black Prince). However, in those days the newly bred varieties were not widely spread.

In our days, when researchers determined that the blue or violet color of such tomatoes is a sign of a large content of antioxinants in the vegetable, the violet varieties are gaining more and more popularity. Tomato Indigo Rose (reviews, photos of him you will see below) - the darkest of them. In addition to it, the following blue tomatoes are popular:

• Primary color.
• Blue Gold.
• Blueberry.
• A dance with smurfs.
• The dark galaxy.
• Red coal.
• Strips of the past.
• P20 Blue.
• Blot.
• Blue-green zebra.
• Wild cherry.
• Amethyst.
• Amethyst Cherry Cream.
• Blue chocolate.
• Fiery Blue.
• Cherry Blueberry.
• The Blue Beauty.
• A real jewel.

In addition to excellent taste qualities, dark fruits have the following useful properties:

1. Reducing the risk of vascular disease.
2. Counteraction to the formation of cancer cells.
3. Strengthening the walls of blood vessels.
4. Increased visual acuity.

Many botanists believe that the first tomatoes brought to Europe were just such a shade. They explain this by the fact that in the native land of the plant, in South America, most of the wild tomato varieties have fruits of violet color.

Description of Indigo Rose

Tomato Indigo Rose ("Indigo Rose ") is a medium-sized, universal variety. Fruits are suitable for use both fresh and conserved. Tomatoes are sweet, fleshy, dense, smooth, dark purple, weighing up to 60 g. The best time to harvest - when the fruit color is poured to a saturated dark shade, will become soft to the touch. Since the tomato of Indigo Rose tastes not too sweet, it has a pleasant tart flavor, it is well suited for salads and frying.

The vegetative period of time from the appearance of germination to maturation: 75 days. A medium-sized shrub is up to 1 meter high. The plant is disease-resistant and high-yielding, open-type pollination, suitable for planting both in greenhouses and in beds.

Black tomatoes were bred in Oregon (USA), in the laboratory of Professor D. Myers. According to the scientist himself, Indigo Rose is the first improved grade of tomato containing anthocyanin. Since this is the darkest type of tomato, then, respectively, the level of antioxidant in it is the highest. It was the result of crossing violet tomatoes with the usual red varieties. It is believed that the antioxidant contained in Indigo Rose, helps in the fight against obesity, diabetes, in general, improves the health of a person.

Features of cultivation and care

Tomato Indigo Rose - quite unpretentious plant, but the gardener needs to take note of some points:

1. After swelling of the soaked seeds, it is necessary to keep them in a strong solution of potassium permanganate until half an hour, then they are washed and dried.
2. Plant tomatoes in a soft warm substrate at a distance of 10 cm from each other in grooves depth of 1 cm. Cover the ground, sifted through a sieve.
3. The first watering is from the spray gun, then you can use a regular watering can. Periodicity of watering - every day until the appearance of sprouts.
4. As the seedlings grow, two or three times the substrate should be poured into the aisles, and the weak and painful sprouts removed.
5. To feed the tomato of Indigo Rose follows in the event that the seedlings by the day of transplantation are still not sufficiently strengthened.
6. Landing is carried out when there is no threat of frost on the soil. Row intervals - from 70 to 100 cm, depending on the size of the bushes. In one row the plants are planted after 30-50 cm.
7. Try to protect tomatoes from high and low temperatures, timely watering, feeding, removing stepchildren. Do not forget to mulch the soil around the roots with needles or chips.

Tomato Indigo Rose: reviews

Among the advantages of the plant, gardeners note:

• Power of the bush;
• Yield - up to 15 tomatoes on the brush;
• Juiciness of the fetus;
• Unusual coloring;
• pleasant taste.

Quite differently describe the tomato of Indigo Rose disappointed:

• Watery vegetables.
• Long ripening.
• A tall bush is inconvenient for leaving.
• Small tomatoes.

The Indigo Rose variety is a novelty for Russian gardeners. However, a high-yielding and powerful plant with unusual black fruits, rich in useful antioxidants, has already become a successful experiment for many.