Afen F1 Tomato: Characteristics and Description of the Hybrid Variety with Photos

The Afen F1 tomato can be grown both in a garden plot and on a large farm. It was developed by French breeders for greenhouse cultivation, but experience has shown that it can also be grown outdoors. This variety is suitable for salads, stores well, and is eaten fresh.

What is the Afen tomato?

Characteristics and description of the variety:

The plant needs support, as the variety is indeterminate and can grow quite tall.
The bushes are shaped and side shoots are removed.
Stepchildren are removed once every 10 days.
The Afen tomato has dense, rich green foliage, small internodes and complex inflorescences.
The plant is resistant to many diseases of the nightshade family and remains almost disease-free throughout the growing season.
The shape of the fruit is round.
The skin is raspberry-colored.
Fruit weight varies from 120 to 350 g (depending on care and conditions).
The cut tomato is pink, has many chambers, and tastes sweet and juicy.
With good care, the yield reaches up to 9 kg per 1 m².

40 days after sowing the seeds, the seedlings grow and are ready for planting in the ground, and after another 60-65 days, the tomatoes ripen. The fruits ripen on the bushes uniformly, simultaneously.

How are tomatoes grown?

To grow healthy and delicious Afen tomatoes, special attention must be paid to soil quality. Fertile soil with the necessary nutrients is crucial for this crop. For this reason, tomatoes are not planted in areas where potatoes were grown, as the tubers draw all the fertilizer from the soil.

The soil is tilled beforehand and supplemented with rotted manure, turf, compost, and various soil conditioners. The soil for planting seeds can be taken from the garden or purchased as a ready-made substrate containing all the necessary components for normal seedling growth.
3-4 seedlings are planted per 1 m², maintaining a distance of 40 cm between bushes and 50 cm between rows.

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The Afen F1 tomato is trained into a single stem. To achieve this, lateral branches are removed to prevent them from robbing the fruit of nutrients. The more excess shoots are removed from the bush, the larger and tastier the tomatoes will grow.

The formed bush is pinched at the top in order to stop its growth, so that all the plant’s strength will go into the formation of fruits.

Let's look at how to fertilize Afen tomatoes and a description of organic soil fertilizing compounds.
Two weeks after the first shoots emerge, feed the seedlings with a complex fertilizer, available at any gardening store. You can also use a nettle infusion steeped for three days.

After planting in the ground, you will need the following substances as fertilizer, used at different stages of tomato development:

mullein in liquid form;
ash;
superphosphate;
boric acid (pinch);
sodium humate.

When the bushes begin to bloom vigorously, the soil should be fertilized with a complex fertilizer consisting of liquid mullein. During the fruit-setting period, the plant requires an ash solution (10 liters of water, 2 tablespoons of ash, and 2 g of boric acid).

At the stage of fruit growth, water with sodium humate and superphosphate.

Three weeks before the expected harvest, tomatoes are not fertilized or watered.

Reviews of the Afen tomato are mostly positive. Vegetable growers primarily note the tomatoes' excellent taste and appetizing appearance. Gardeners report growing tomatoes weighing up to 650 g and recommend this productive variety to everyone.