Tomato Lucciola F1 Oval Cherry - 5x Vegetable/Fruit Seeds - Exceptional Sweet Flavour

Tomato Lucciola Vegetable Seeds

Overview: Tomato Lucciola is a high-yielding, indeterminate F1 hybrid variety beloved for its small, oval, luminous red fruits. Known for their exceptional sweet flavour and high sugar content, these bite-sized tomatoes are perfect for fresh eating or cooking, making them a versatile addition to any garden.

Key Characteristics:

• Type: F1 Hybrid, Indeterminate (continues to grow throughout the season)
• Fruit: Produces small, oval (datterino type) tomatoes weighing approximately 35-45 grams.
• Flavour: Offers an excellent sweet flavour, juicy texture, and impressive sugar content (high Brix).
• Yield: Highly productive, yielding uniform clusters of fruit.
• Growth: Fast-growing with good disease resistance (including resistance to Fol, Va, Vd, and ToMV).
• Uses: Ideal for fresh consumption in salads, as well as cooking applications due to their delightful taste and petite size.

Bring the sweet, succulent taste of Lucciola tomatoes to your garden and enjoy a rewarding growing experience with high yields of flavourful fruits!

Sowing Instructions:

• Timing: Sow seeds from late winter to early spring, approximately 8 weeks before the last frost in your area.
• Temperature: Sow at a temperature of around 20°C (68°F), covering the seeds lightly.

• Transplanting:

  • For heated greenhouses, transplant in mid-February.
  • In cool greenhouses, transplant in mid-spring.
  • Outdoors, transplant early June after the threat of frost has passed.

   
• Sow seeds on the surface of a good, free-draining, damp, seed sowing mix and cover with a fine sprinkling of compost or vermiculite. Place seed trays in a propagator at a constant temperature of around 15-20C (59-68F) until after germination, which takes 7-14 days.

• Potting: When seedlings gain 2 true leaves, transplant into individual 7.5cm (3") pots of compost and grow on at a minimum temperature of 15C (59F).
• Growing On: Continue to grow in greenhouses, pots, or grow bags, feeding after the first truss has set. Pinch out side shoots on indeterminate plants (cordon) to encourage fruit production.

Growing Tips:

• As an indeterminate variety, Tomato Lucciola requires support through staking or caging to manage its growth effectively. Regular pruning is advisable to focus the plant’s energy on fruit production, ensuring a bountiful harvest.

When growing in a heated glasshouse tomato plants may be transplanted at the end of May or when the first flowers are showing, if earlier. Allow 3 plants per grow-bag, or one per 25cm (10") pot, or plant tomatoes directly into the greenhouse soil.

 

When growing tomatoes outdoors, wait until all risk of frost has passed before transplanting tomatoes. Gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions over 7 - 10 days before planting out from early June when tomato plants are 20cm (8") tall. Choose a sheltered position in full sun on fertile, reliably moist, well drained soil, and transplant at a distance of 60cm (24") apart. Drive a (5') cane into the soil adjacent to each plant to support them as they grow, and tie each main stem to its support with soft garden twine.

Transplant seedlings when large enough to handle into 7.5cm (3in) pots. Plant in the greenhouse in individual large pots, or 3 plants per growbag when 20cm (8in) high. Can be planted outdoors, 45cm (18in) apart once all frost risk has passed

Suitable for the Garden, vegetable garden, allotments, borders and containers. 

Be prepared to water well and supplement feed with high-potash feed during season. Regular feeding is recommended.