Description and characteristics of the tomato variety Lorraine beauty
If we classify tomatoes by application, then we can distinguish four large groups - salad, processed, universal, decorative gift - with specific and unusual fruits. One of the brightest representatives of the latter are the Lorraine beauty tomatoes. Their main purpose is to decorate the table.
Fruit characteristics
The Lorraine beauty tomato is elegant large, ribbed, rounded fruits, flattened at the top. Outwardly, they look like a closed flower with wide petals. The color of ripe tomatoes is bright scarlet. Weight 200-350 grams, with proper agricultural technology can reach half a kilogram.
Inside they are multi-chambered, hollow, almost without seeds. The taste is sweetish with sourness. Suitable only for fresh consumption - slicing or stuffing looks spectacular on the table. Dense, crack-resistant. Stored for a long time. They ripen perfectly when selected brown.
Variety properties
The tomato is of American origin, or rather the selection of the United States. Tomatoes are of an indeterminate type, with a height of 1.5 to 2 meters. The average late ripening period is 110-120 days. It is grown both in greenhouses and in the open field. Self-pollinated. Low yield - no more than 3-4 kg per bush. In adverse weather conditions, you can generally get 2-3 tomatoes.
The characteristic of resistance to viral and fungal diseases is as follows: resistant to fusarium wilt, gray leaf spot, tobacco mosaic, alternaria stem cancer, verticillus, cladosporium, nematode. Not resistant to root and white rot.
The bush is not a standard bush - stems of a thin constitution, large, slightly corrugated leaves. Even in the description of the variety, you can add that, due to the specifics, it is not grown in agriculture on an industrial scale. This is a tomato of amateur gardeners, collectors of unusual plants.
Growing features
Tomatoes of the variety Lorraine beauty in terms of agricultural technology of cultivation does not differ from most classic varieties:
- sowing seeds - getting seedlings.
- picking.
- transplanting.
- cultivation - watering, feeding, garter formation.
- harvesting.
Sowing seeds for seedlings for open ground, taking into account the climatic zone, is carried out no earlier than two months before the onset of stable warm weather. After 3-4 weeks, in the phase of 2-3 true leaves, they dive. They land approximately 30 days after the pick. If the warm weather has not yet settled, the seedlings should be "turitized" - treated with "Tur" or another growth regulator, in order to avoid overgrowth.
Planting scheme 60 x 50. Row spacing 60 cm, between plants 45-50. Due to its resistance to cracking, the beauty is not demanding on strict adherence to the irrigation regime, but the soil should not be allowed to dry out too much.
The formation of the bush is performed by removing the stepsons and a garter. Produced in one trunk, however, according to gardeners, there is a successful experience in growing tomatoes in two trunks.
Selection of dressings according to the classic P-N-K scheme. For the period of development, a complex with a high percentage of nitrogen, during flowering and ovary - phosphorus, potassium is needed when fruits ripen. For the prevention of apical rot, periodically give Ca, that is, calcium nitrate. Fruiting continues as long as weather conditions permit. With the onset of cold weather, even green fruits will perfectly reach at room temperature.
Lorraine beauty yellow
In addition to red, there is also a yellow variety with ribbed, corrugated fruits. In general, these two tomatoes are similar - both are indeterminants of average ripening. The color of the tomato is bright, yellow-orange. Cutting looks very nice together with red, very similar to flowers.
Advantages and disadvantages of the variety
The benefits include the following:
- Lorraine beauty, a spectacular, unusual tomato that resembles dahlia flowers;
- high taste;
- resistant to most diseases;
- unpretentious, easy to grow;
- there is the possibility of forming a bush in two trunks.
The disadvantage is the low yield, which is highly dependent on weather conditions. Due to the long ripening period, in the north, the tomato is cultivated only in the greenhouse method.
