Tomato Honey

The Honey Tomato is grandiose. The first tomatoes are so weighty that they don't even fit in the palm of your hand. In addition, endurance, keeping quality and the most delicate juicy sugar-pink pulp make the variety attractive.

The Honey Tomato was included in the State Register in 2007. The applicant is LLC Agrofirma Demetra-Siberia, a company operating in the horticultural market of the Russian Federation since 1998. A special direction of the firm's activity is the breeding of hardy crops capable of showing high results in the conditions of Siberia and Altai.

The variety belongs to the indeterminate type. The bush has the ability to grow indefinitely, but is compact, up to 1-1.2 meters tall, with large, dark green leaves. The bushes are real robust. The stems and root system are powerful, solid, the variety rarely gets sick, has a heroic immunity.

Tomatoes are very large, weighing 300-400 grams, beautifully rounded, slightly flattened, with barely noticeable weak ribs. Individual fruits, taken from the first hand, can weigh up to 700 grams. Unripe fruits are green, with a dark spot typical of many brightly colored tomatoes at the stalk. Ripe fruits - rich crimson color. The color is even, clean. The skin is not prone to cracking, thin. From 4 to 6 tomatoes ripen in one brush.

The variety was named "honey" for a reason. The fruits are very sweet. The chambers with the juice are small, frequent, the basis of the fruit is a juicy smooth pulp - tender, more soft than elastic. The variety is not prone to the appearance of whitish woody areas within the fruit under all growing conditions. The tomato is good for fresh consumption. Amazing for making juices and ketchups.

The variety is mid-season, ripens 110-115 days after germination. The yield is smooth, from June to August, or, in the northern regions, from July to September.

The officially declared yield for indeterminate varieties is considered average - up to 8 kg per 1 sq. m under the film shelters. However, there are other numbers as well. From one bush, you can get up to 4 kg of fruit, and for 1 square. m actually grow up to 4 bushes. Total from 1 sq. meter will be able to remove a record 16 kg. The variety is able to show such results with a high level of agricultural technology.

Sowing seedlings - from 1 to 15 March. Plants are transplanted into open ground from May 15 to June 5. In the northern regions, it is better not to rush and take the transplanting seedlings the 1st week of June.

The rows are kept 60 cm apart, the distance between the plants is 40 cm.

The variety is suitable for various cultivation methods: indoor greenhouses, in the open field. Recommended for cultivation in all regions of the Russian Federation, special attention should be paid to the variety for those who live in the Northern, North-Western, Ural regions, as well as in all regions of Siberia.

Indeterminate varieties, even the most compact ones, must be tied up and formed into no more than 1-2 stems. The stepsons are removed.

Secrets of a bountiful and tasty harvest.

1. All tomatoes, and large-fruited, brightly colored and sweet especially, love the sun. For planting tomatoes, you need to choose a sunny area. The more sun, the more sweetness, the larger the fruits and the brighter their color. Beds in open ground are placed not from north to south, but from east to west - so that most of the day the bushes are turned towards the sun and do not block each other.
2. Smooth temperature. Tomato Honey is hardy, but at temperatures without sudden jumps it will be even more generous. Greenhouse cultivation will increase yields. Keeping in a covered greenhouse will relieve the plants from fluctuations in day and night temperatures, and in some regions of Russia - from the threat of recurrent frosts.
3. Tomatoes are not planted in the area where other nightshades grew before, they are not placed next to potatoes. In the first place, tomatoes are not grown for more than 3 years. However, if the plants are healthy, their tops can be used as fertilizer. Tomatoes actively accumulate nutrients not only in fruits, but also in leaves and stems, this can be seen by the bright characteristic smell of tops. In autumn, healthy tops are chopped with a shovel, piled into shallow trenches and lightly sprinkled with earth. Next year, seedlings are planted in this place - it will be vigorous and strong.
4. Variety Honey tied flawlessly, but all indeterminate varieties, especially those grown in a greenhouse, benefit from pollination assistance. The gardener is recommended to shake the brushes with flowers or work with a soft brush.
5. Timely correct feeding. After the appearance of flowers, nitrogen should not be abused. But you need potassium, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. To stimulate the formation of ovaries, the plant is sprayed three times with an interval of 10 days with a solution of boric acid (0.2 g of powder per 1 liter of water): when buds are formed, during the period of mass opening of flowers, during the formation of fruits. It is believed that this technique can increase the yield of a tomato by 10-20%.
6. Breaking off leaves. This variety has abundant, large leaves, capable of taking food from the fruit. Tear off the lower leaves, especially those that come into contact with the ground - at the same time ridding the plant of a possible source of infection. 1-3 sheets are cut off at a time.
7. Hilling and additional rooting. This technique is often used for tall, indeterminate varieties. Gardeners rely on the natural ability of tomatoes to root throughout the stem. In nature, tomatoes are creeping perennial plants. Hilling, dipping the stem obliquely, rooting stepchildren can greatly increase the yield of the plant.
8. Correct removal of excess shoots. You can pinch the stepsons, but then new shoots will soon appear in this place. If the gardener has little time to regularly inspect the plants, it is better not to pinch the stepchildren, but to break off, leaving a noticeable stump of 1-2 cm.Then the plant believes that there is already a shoot in this place and is in no hurry to release a new one.

The Honey variety does not belong to capricious cultivars, for whom such tricks are obligatory, it will show itself in any case. But all these techniques will allow you to maximize the potential of the variety.

The advantages of the variety are beautiful, as if calibrated exhibition fruits, versatility and taste. Tomatoes, huge in size, with a thick pink hue, make a strong impression. The even, pure color is pleasing to the eye.

Fleshy fragrant pulp, sweet, juicy and melting, is great in fresh dishes, and the surplus of the harvest can always be sent to harvesting. Tomato is very easy to cook due to its size and consistency.

It has few seeds. Fresh tomatoes, despite their juiciness, lying and dense, ripen very well when removed from the bush early, easily move from place to place and will delight those who grow not only for themselves, but also for sale.

In cultivation, the variety is unpretentious and does not require anything special from the gardener. As disadvantages, gardeners noted: later, in comparison with the declared, ripening, brittle shoots, with which you need to be careful, the usual tomato taste, insufficient sweetness.