Black Icicle - 15 Fresh Seeds Organically Grown in 21/22 season in Tassie.
Black Icicle translated from “Sosulka
Chernaya” is of Ukrainian origin. It was developed from an accidental cross
found by Aleksey Kulik in his tomato field in Ochtyrka, a small city in Sumy
Oblast in Ukraine. Looks like a roma but
with the taste of a beefsteak. Thick
flesh walls with few seeds. Stores for a
few weeks after picking. Black
Icicle tomato is a forward tasting fruit that is a great sauce candidate. Wispy
leaf vines produce plenty 2-3 inch long, dark colored fruits that are very
tasty. Plants have skinny vines and need to be staked early. Fruits are
chocolate brown and are sweet and rich when well ripened. This is a great
tomato for cooking, sauces, stews, slicing and drying and eating of the vine.
***Grown In the West Tamar in Tasmania using Organic
(non-certified)/Permaculture principles focusing on soil health!
Info:
CULINARY
USE: Paste, Sauce, Canner, Salad
FLAVOR
PROFILE: Sweet, Well Balanced
DESCRIPTION:
Medium Larger beefsteak
FRUIT
COLOR: Mahogany Brown with green shoulders
FRUIT
SHAPE: Elongated
MATURITY:
75 Days
PLANT
TYPE: Indeterminate
BREED:
Heirloom/ Open Pollinated
SEEDS:
15
>>Tomatoes are warm season, frost tender
annual plants. Seeds require a warm soil of between 18 - 28°C and sown at 5mm
deep, take approx 5-10 days to germinate. Sowing at too low a temperature will
cause delayed or failed germination.
Tomato Growing
Instructions:
1. Select
Your Preferred Tomato Seed
It's
fairly easy and inexpensive to start many tomato varieties from seed, so experiment
with the types you like best. Here are some factors to take into consideration:
o Look
for organic seed if you prefer organic produce.
o If
you know your area is prone to a particular disease, choose a hardy tomato
variety.
o If
you want your tomatoes all at once to preserve them, look at determinate
varieties. Indeterminate types bear fruit over a longer period, with some
starting later in the season than others.
o Note
the mature size of the plant. In general, determinate plants tend to be smaller
than indeterminate ones
o Which
size of tomato do you want and/or what use? Cherry sizes are small
for salads or beefsteak are large for slicing
o Flavor
Profile, some are sweet, and some are tart. Consider what you want
to use the tomato for: saucing, slicers, salads, relish, decorative/colourful
o
2. Prepare
the Containers for Planting
It
is often more efficient to dampen the potting mix before you put it in the
containers. Add some water and work it through the soil. Keep adding water
until the mix stays compressed in your hand but is not dripping wet. It should
break apart when you poke it with your finger.
Then,
fill your containers with potting soil. Gently firm the soil, so it's about 1cm
from the top.
3. Plant
the Tomato Seeds
Make
a 1/2cm furrow in the potting mix. Then, sprinkle two to three seeds into the
furrow, and cover them with a sprinkling of potting mix. Gently pat down the
mix, so the seeds make good contact with the soil. You can spray the surface
with water if it doesn’t feel moist.
At
this point, place your containers somewhere warm. Check them daily to make sure
the soil is moist—but not wet—and watch for germination. Tomato seed
germination typically occurs in about five to 10 days
4. Care
for the Tomato Seedlings
Keep
your tomato seedlings warm and moist and provide them with light—preferably
grow lights. Rotate the plants if they are leaning in one direction. Once your
tomato seedlings have true leaves, it's time to start feeding them. Any good
liquid fertilizer can be used once a week but dilute it to half the label's
recommended dose.
Tomato
stems grow sturdier if they are tossed about by the wind. You can simulate this
indoors by putting a fan on your plants for an hour a day or by gently running
your hand through them each time you pass.
5. Pot
the Tomato Seedlings
When
the seedlings are 2 to 3 inches tall and have a couple sets of true leaves,
it's time to pot them in larger containers. In general, 7.5cm-10cm containers
are a decent size, though you might have to move them to larger pots
later if you can't plant them outdoors.
Fill
the new pots with moist potting mix just as you did when you started the seeds.
If more than one seed germinated in the same container, you will need to thing the seedlings.
Either gently jiggle entangled roots apart, or simply snip off unwanted
seedlings at soil level. This ensures that you won't damage the seedling you
want to keep.
Plant
each tomato seedling in its new pot a little deeper than it was in its original
container. If it's tall and leggy, you can plant it right up to its top-most
leaves. Then, firm the soil gently around the seedling.
6. Transplant
the Seedlings Outdoors
When
you're finally ready to plant your tomatoes in the garden, choose a cool or
overcast day. Once again, plant them deeper than they were in their
pots, so new roots will form along the buried stem.
You
can plant them all the way up to the top couple sets of leaves. This is
especially ideal if your plants have gotten too tall indoors, and you want them
to become stockier and stronger. If you can’t dig deep enough, you can always
plant them sideways in a furrow. The top of the plant will find the sun and
grow upright in a few days.
Packaging: All
our seeds are sent in small zip lock bags to make postage more economical. They
have a sticker label with basic germination instructions and are posted in a
padded bubble mailer to protect seeds.
Please note for international
Purchasers -
It is the buyer’s
responsibility to know whether these seeds are allowed into your country as no
refunds or re-sends will be given on seeds that do not arrive. By
agreeing to purchase these seeds you accept the risk involved in the chance
they may be taken by your countries biosecurity if not permitted as i cannot
know the regulations of every country. So, it is very important you contact
your local authorities to make sure these seeds are allowed or if you need an
import permit. Thank you for your understanding