- Category: grade
- Growth type: indeterminate
- Appointment: universal
- Ripening period: mid-season
- Ripening time, days: 115-118
- Growing conditions: for closed ground
- Transportability: high
- Ripe fruit color: neon yellow
- Fruit shape: cylindrical
- Yield: more than 12 kg / m2
Tomatoes of an interesting shape, which are popularly called Man's dignity or Ladies' whim, are the fruits of the Auria yellow variety. In this article, we will talk about its color, characteristics and growing rules.
Breeding history
In 1998, a new tomato hybrid, Auria, was introduced in Novosibirsk. However, for all this time, the variety was not included in the State Register of Plant Breeding Plants, which, among other things, gives instructions in which regions of the country it is best to grow a crop. According to numerous publications and reviews of gardeners, there is an exact answer that the variety is suitable for greenhouse conditions.
Description of the variety
Auria yellow is an indeterminate crop, that is, its shoots, like vines, can grow up to 2 meters. The trunk of the plant and leaf plates are colored in a light green hue. The inflorescences are simple. The fruits are collected in dense clusters, each of which contains up to 9 pieces.
Tomatoes are great for canning and fresh consumption.
Advantages of the variety:
high and long-term productivity;
simultaneous maturity of tomatoes in clusters;
high transportability and keeping quality of fruits;
drought resistance of the crop;
the fruits hardly crack or stretch.
Among the minuses, it is worth highlighting:
average taste;
fragility of the stem and shoots, crumbling of ripe fruits;
tendency to fungal diseases, which is why it is worth paying attention to fertilizing with calcium content.
The main qualities of the fruit
The fruit of Auria is yellow, bicameral, irregular, oblong, cylindrical with a blunt bifurcated end. The tomato peel is dense, bright, the ripe fruit is colored neon yellow. The tomato pulp is also dense, fleshy, juicy. The average weight of one fruit is 150 g. Due to the dense skin, the fruits are easily transported and can be stored for a long time.
Depending on the growing conditions and agricultural technology, the fruits of Auria yellow can undergo a change in shape.
Taste characteristics
The flavoring qualities of the variety are inexpressive, like most hybrids. Despite this, the fruits are great for making salads and various preparations, except for drying.
Ripening and fruiting
The variety is mid-season, 118 days pass from sowing seeds to harvesting. The first ovaries of buds are formed on the Auria above 6-7 leaves, subsequent ovaries are formed through each pair of leaves, due to which the culture can bear fruit for a long time.
Yield
In greenhouse conditions, up to 12 kg of harvest can be removed from 1 m2, one bush produces up to 4 kg of fruits.
The timing of planting seedlings and planting in the ground
The cultivation of the Auria yellow variety occurs only through seedlings. Preparation of young seedlings is standard.
Sowing seeds is carried out a couple of months before planting in greenhouse soil (early March). The seeds are germinated in grooves about 1 cm deep. The planting containers are kept at a temperature of + 24 ° C, with the appearance of the first shoots, the temperature regime is changed to a cooler one, + 20 ° C. Daylight hours for young growth should be 14 or more hours.
A couple of months after sowing, the seedlings become ready for planting in the greenhouse soil (mid-May, early June).
Growing tomato seedlings is an extremely important process, because it largely depends on whether the gardener will be able to harvest at all. All aspects must be taken into account, from seedbed preparation to planting in the ground.
Landing scheme
Young plants are planted at a distance of 60 cm from each other and 50 cm between the rows of the garden. It is not worth planting more than 3 bushes per square meter of area; with such a planting, tomatoes can be grown in two stems, in other cases in one.
Growing and care
Caring for the bushes is the same as for all types of tomatoes.
Watering the plants regularly, every week. It is better to mulch the trunk circle with straw or peat to reduce moisture evaporation.
In the second week after planting in the greenhouse soil, tomatoes must be fertilized with a standard mineral fertilizer containing potassium, phosphorus, nitrogen. During the period of laying the inflorescences, the culture will need phosphorus and potassium, and during the fruiting period - sodium.
Excess shoots that are not involved in fruiting should be removed. As the stem grows, the culture will need to be tied to a support, since the weight of the brushes with fruits is capable of breaking the plant stem.
A plant needs different micronutrients at each stage of growth. All fertilizers can be divided into two groups: mineral and organic. Folk remedies are often used: iodine, yeast, bird droppings, eggshells.
It is important to observe the rate and period of feeding. This also applies to folk remedies and organic fertilizers.
Disease and pest resistance
The resistance to diseases in the Auria yellow variety is medium. The crop is prone to dry spotting and top rot, which results in dark brown spots on the fruit, making the tomato unusable.
When any fungal disease appears, the plant must be treated with any fungicidal preparation. As a preventive measure, loosening and weeding of the soil, ventilation of the greenhouse is carried out.
Among pests, Auria is affected by the whitefly, Colorado potato beetle, tick, and aphids. In these cases, insecticide treatment is carried out.
Tomato Auria yellow is a completely unpretentious culture; subject to the rules of agricultural technology, this variety will delight summer residents by the middle of summer with juicy and attractive fruits of an unusual shape.
