Description and growing guidelines for the Beef Pink Brandy tomato

Recently, gardeners have become interested in how to grow the Beef Pink Brandy F1 tomato. Specialty stores offer a huge selection of tomato seeds, varying in color, shape, fruit weight, the presence or absence of seeds inside the tomatoes, plant height, growing conditions, and other characteristics. Today, we'll look at one of the varieties, recently developed by Dutch breeders but already finding a loyal customer base: Beef Pink Brandy F1.

What is Beef Pink Brandy Tomato?

Characteristics of the Beef pink brandy f1 variety:

• Beef Pink Brandy F1 tomatoes are a mid-season variety: from the moment of emergence to the initial stage of harvesting, an average of 3-3.5 months pass;
• It is most preferable to grow this variety in greenhouses, rather than in film shelters, since the height of the bushes can reach 1.8 m, and some specimens are capable of growing up to 2 m;
• not suitable for growing in open ground;
• Due to the large height of the plant, it is necessary to tie it up several times as it grows;
• Beef Yummy tomatoes (as gardeners jokingly call them) grow large, slightly ribbed near the stalk, flat-round;
• the fruits have a rich pink, close to raspberry, color and are quite fleshy and juicy, sweet with a slight sourness;
• If you cut a tomato in half horizontally, you can see its internal division into segments - some specimens can have up to 6 of them;
• The average weight of each fruit is about 300-350 g.

This variety is considered high-yielding. With the manufacturer's recommended planting pattern of 70 x 45 cm, up to 25 kg of fruit can be harvested per square meter. Furthermore, the manufacturer recommends training the bush into a single stem to maximize the yield. Remember to remove side shoots.

Beef f1 seeds are treated with special substances, so this variety is not susceptible to such common tomato diseases as tomato bronze virus, tobacco mosaic, bush wilt (both fusarium and verticillium), and root-knot nematodes.

Due to their increased juiciness, the fruits are suitable for salads, juices, sauces, and pastes. These tomatoes are rarely used for whole-fruit pickling or marinating due to their large size and their tendency to crack.

Despite their large size, tomatoes can be stored fresh and retain their marketable appearance for up to three weeks. They also transport well, but only over short distances.

How to grow tomatoes?

As already noted, this variety is only suitable for growing in greenhouses and under tall plastic covers. Despite its tall growth, it requires no additional care (other than timely staking and pinching).

Tomatoes are planted at a depth of 2 cm in specially prepared commercial soil or in homemade soil with peat or compost, wood ash, and superphosphate. When the third leaf appears on the seedlings, they are pricked out.

When the seedlings are 1.5 months old, they can be planted in a greenhouse located in a sunny, open area with light, fertile soil that does not accumulate water.

Another important rule is to monitor the temperature in the greenhouse, especially during the active flowering period. At temperatures below 15°C, the anthers will become deformed.If the thermometer rises above +30 ºС, then the viability of pollen will begin to decrease, decreasing with each increase in temperature by 1 ºС.

Consumer reviews

Consumers of the Beef f1 variety have highly praised its qualitative and quantitative characteristics and have confirmed that the description of the variety provided by the manufacturer is accurate.

Summer residents write mostly positive reviews and note the following advantages of Biff f:

• mid-season;
• ripens unevenly, which allows for harvesting from July to September;
• large-fruited;
• high-yielding;
• sweet with a little sourness;
• salad variety;
• suitable for preparing pastes, sauces, juices;
• resistant to many serious diseases that affect most tomato varieties.

Among the main disadvantages of this variety, gardeners point out the impossibility of growing it in open ground, as well as its limitations in terms of harvesting.