Characteristics and description of the tomato variety Honey Drop, its cultivation and yield
The very name of the tomato honey drop contributes to getting to know the vegetable plant more closely, to learn its advantages and disadvantages. It is clear that tomatoes of this type are multi-colored. Their characteristics will be slightly different than that of red relatives.
Distinctive features of the variety
Tall tomatoes boast an abundance of varieties that are hung not only with large fruits, but also with small ones such as Cherry. Grow indeterminate tomatoes usually in a greenhouse, since the liana-like stem can easily find support indoors. They are not afraid of wind, rain or other weather disasters in greenhouses.
Tomatoes of the Honey Drop variety have increased resistance to fungal diseases and pathogenic viruses, bacteria. During the growing season, they give a large yield of beautiful tasty fruits. Medium early variety bears fruit from mid-summer to late September.
Bushes of an indeterminate type reach a height of two meters, so they need a garter for sustainable growth. To reduce the splendor of large, potato-like leaves, pinching is carried out, forming 1 or 2 stems. Tomatoes are collected in clusters, ten to fifteen pieces in each. Fruit color is yellow.
Useful properties of honey fruits
The multi-colored varieties of tomatoes differ in their qualities from ordinary red tomatoes. The yellow fruits have more pulp, they taste sweet. Coloring in amber tone of tomatoes Honey drop is associated with the presence of provitamin A. Lycopene is useful in preventing the development of malignant tumors. The action of the enzyme myocin in the composition of yellow tomatoes is aimed at strengthening the walls of blood vessels, activating the action of antioxidants in the human body.
Since the fruits of the color of honey contain B vitamins, a person after consuming them becomes calm, his sleep is normalized, and the digestive processes are restored. Yellow tomatoes have a positive effect on the condition of the hair, skin, and nail plate. Eating tomatoes of this variety will effectively affect visual acuity.
Due to the low content of acids in yellow fruits, their use will not cause heartburn, will help cleanse the body of toxins and toxins.
Honey drop tomatoes will delight you with small fruits weighing from ten to twenty grams. In shape, they resemble a miniature pear with a rich yellow color. The tomato droplets taste pleasant, sweet. There is little water in the fruit, but more pulp. You can quickly get enough of them, it is not for nothing that Honey Drop tomatoes are advised for dietary nutrition.According to experts, in one hundred grams of an amber product, the calorie content reaches 25 kilocalories. Despite the large amount of carbohydrates, a person does not gain extra pounds by eating yellow honey drop tomatoes.
This is a successful vegetable product, in which substances useful for obtaining energy are present in a balanced manner.
Rules for growing yellow tomatoes
The description of the variety also includes the conditions under which it can grow best. The seedling method is most suitable for growing tomatoes. To prepare strong shoots, you must:
- Discard seeds by choosing viable ones.
- Conduct disinfection of seed in a weak solution of potassium permanganate or hydrogen peroxide, lowering them there for twenty minutes.
- Harden the seeds by placing them in the refrigerator for two days.
- Fill the boxes with soil mixture from garden soil, peat, sand, spilling the soil with hot water in advance.
- Plant the seeds under a film in boxes with nutritious soil mixture, deepening one centimeter.
- Dive tomatoes after the appearance of two true leaves.
- Bring strong seedlings to the open air for hardening one month before planting.
In the first half of May, seedlings are placed in greenhouse soil, and at the end of the month in a vegetable garden. Planting is carried out so that the distance between the plants is forty to forty-five centimeters.
Planting and leaving
Those who planted the honey tomato are aware of its demanding soil. The soil must be renewed in greenhouses annually, it must be disinfected before planting seedlings.
Tomato Honey drop is a tall vegetable species, therefore, as soon as the seedlings are placed in the greenhouse, the flexible stems are tied to a support. It is best if it is a trellis, horizontal or vertical. In warm areas, it is possible to plant tomato bushes in open ground, where the plants are tied to long pegs.
The description of care includes:
- regular watering with warm water once every five to six days;
- feeding the bushes every two weeks, alternating organic fertilizers with mineral fertilizers with an emphasis on potash;
- compulsory pinching with the formation of one or two stems;
- loosening the soil;
- pest and disease control.
Grown tomatoes are eaten as the fruits ripen. Children love to feast on them due to the large amount of sugars in them. Small tomatoes are ideal for canning.
Diseases and pests
The yield of tomatoes depends on the plant's resistance to disease. More often nightshade crops get sick indoors, becoming infected from other plants. Although the variety Honey Drop, or Plum Drop, is not afraid of a fungal infection, it can develop pathological conditions such as:
- late blight;
- streak;
- leaf mosaic;
- top rot.
Phytophthora affects wet summer at the end of the growing season. First, brown spots appear on the leaves, then on the fruits. It is impossible to store the affected fruits, as they quickly rot. For the treatment and prevention of late blight, the bushes are sprayed with a 1% solution of Bordeaux liquid twice or three times over the summer.
The initial signs of a streak are the appearance of red-brown stripes on the tomato stems. With the development of the disease, it is impossible to grow tasty fruits. Tomatoes can become infected from seeds and during pinching. Therefore, before planting, the seeds must be disinfected. And during the removal of excess processes, diseased bushes are treated last.
A mosaic pattern of light and dark areas on the green of the leaf occurs when infected with a dangerous fungus. The disease is transmitted from diseased plants along with sap during pinching.
Due to insufficient watering on hot days, grayish-brown spots of a dry and hard consistency appear on the tops of the fruits.So that rot does not appear on healthy fruits, the sick remove, destroying.
Of the pests, rarely anyone attacks tomato beds.
Advantages of the variety and its disadvantages
Growing a tomato Honey drop has a number of advantages:
- one hundred percent germination of seed;
- high yields;
- excellent taste;
- resistant to many diseases.
The inconvenience for growing the Honey Drop variety is the high growth of bushes that require a garter. The rest of the yield depends on proper care.
Reviews of the tomato honey drop can only be heard positive. Despite the expenditure of energy for caring for the plant, it pleases with tasty fruits for a long time. Attracted by the versatility of using the variety, good keeping quality of fruits, preservation of the presentation of the vegetable product after transportation.
Grown in the middle lane, first under lutrasil, then without. I didn't. The bush grew up to 1 m, 20 cm. The tomatoes were small, very sweet, unripe, even small ones ripen well. I didn't get sick, though the summer was good and they grew separately from the others in a pit filled with pumpkins. I planted it instead and did not regret it.