Characteristics and description of the tomato variety Orange, its yield
There are fewer varieties of yellow tomatoes than red ones. Especially popular is the Orange tomato, which belongs to the mid-season species, has a lot of advantages and positive feedback from gardeners.
Benefits of yellow tomatoes
The usual red fruits of tomatoes are known for their beneficial properties, but the yellow ones taste sweeter, they have more pulp. The advantages of Orange tomatoes include their low calorie content. They can be satiated quickly without sacrificing weight. They are useful for diabetics, people with large body weight, and elderly people.
By eating orange fruits, a person will feel how:
- the work of the digestive tract has improved;
- the functions of the nervous system were normalized;
- nails have strengthened, their fragility has disappeared;
- face skin tightened, became elastic.
The yellow color in tomatoes is associated with the presence of vitamin A in them, like in carrots. Carbohydrates in their composition will give more energy to the body, and proteins and fats will normalize the functions of cells, improve their construction.
Main characteristics of the variety
The tomato variety has been known since 2000 and is classified as a salad species. The vegetable plant is a determinant, the bush reaches a height of one and a half meters. Fruit ripening period - from 95 to 110 days from the time of emergence.
The characteristics and description of the tomato variety Orange include:
- As in a determinant variety, the tomato lays the first flower clusters after the appearance of the ninth to tenth leaf. The next ones are formed every three sheets.
- In each brush, up to three to five orange tomatoes weighing up to three hundred grams each are tied.
- Round-shaped tomatoes with a slight ribbing of a rich yellow-orange color.
- The pulp is juicy with a delicate sweetish taste, few seeds.
- The yield per square meter is from five to ten kilograms.
They use delicious fruits of the variety in salads, in baby and diet food, for canning as a whole.
You can grow a vegetable crop in the open field or under a film.
Agrotechnical features
Although the Orange tomato variety is intended for cultivation in the southern regions, it is cultivated everywhere. It tolerates temperate climates well, because it is usually grown in seedlings. Before sowing, the seeds are treated with a growth stimulator, disinfected in a solution of potassium permanganate. Seed material is hardened, then the seedlings will be strong. Sixty days after the first sprouts appear, the seedlings are ready for open ground.
Before planting seedlings, they are tempered by taking them out to the balcony or veranda.
The optimal time for planting in the greenhouse will be the end of April - the beginning of May, for the garden - mid-May. If the threat of spring frosts has not passed, then it is necessary to cover the planted bushes with a film.
Among the main techniques for caring for tomatoes:
- moderate watering two to three times a week;
- feeding with mineral and organic substances every ten to twelve days;
- garter bushes;
- pinching leaving two stems;
- loosening the soil after rains and watering;
- weeding tomato beds.
Since the variety is susceptible to disease, preventive measures must be taken. After planting the seedlings, two weeks later, the bushes are sprayed with a 1% solution of Bordeaux liquid. Repeat the procedure twice with an interval of ten days.
How to make Bordeaux liquid
Those who planted tomatoes know that there are two components in the Bordeaux liquid: a solution of copper sulfate and slaked lime. One percent antifungal mixture is prepared from one hundred grams of copper sulfate and 120 grams of lime milk. Dissolve each ingredient in one liter of hot water separately. Then each container is added to five liters, and the parts are mixed, having previously filtered.
It will be correct to pour the solution with copper into the limestone. In this case, the liquid is stirred. So that the solution does not burn the leaves of the vegetable, they check the correctness of its concentration - an iron nail is dipped into it. Red bloom on the object means more copper sulfate than it should be. And so lime is added until the sediment disappears.
Use the prepared liquid immediately, treating tomatoes abundantly in dry weather. For ten square meters of planting, two liters of solution are enough.
The efficiency of the liquid is high; it stays on the leaves and stems of the plant for a long time. And the Pear Orange variety will be protected from pathogenic fungi and viruses.
What vegetable growers say about tomato
Reviews of the orange tomato say that it is beneficial, tasty, children love it for the sweetness of the fruit, their unusualness. It is recommended to try to grow a similar variety, but whose fruits are like a pear. They are lighter in weight, but they contain more sugar and dry matter. They are great for pickling and salting whole. Such orange exoticism will cheer you up in the harsh winter.
