Characteristics and description of the tomato variety Striped flight, reviews of gardeners
Tomato Striped flight is popular with both experienced vegetable growers and novice summer residents who want to get not just the usual red tomatoes for canning, but something rather unusual. And tomatoes of this variety will certainly delight them with just such a result!
Features of the variety
Tomatoes have very good germination rates - 69%, which is above average. This variety is productive, and its fruits look elegant, justifying its unusual name. Let's consider in more detail the characteristics and description of the variety.
This is a determinant plant with an average height, but it is still necessary to tie it up. The garter is made to the stakes, according to the same principle as any other varieties of tomatoes. Fruit weight - about 30 - 40 grams, they abundantly cover the plant in bunches.
Each bunch contains from 20 to 30 fruits, which look attractive due to the chocolate-burgundy hue of the skin and pulp, unusual decoration - green stripes.
Tomatoes have an extraordinary taste - sweet and sour. They bear fruit equally well in open and closed ground, creating conditions for the productive use of the sown area, which is liked by most gardeners, they are quite unpretentious in care. They do not require more attention to themselves than their traditional counterparts. There is no need to be afraid of fruit falling from the bunch.
Tomatoes of the Striped Flight variety are distinguished by their density, elasticity and good taste; they look great on the table both fresh and in salted or pickled form. They can be preserved not only ripe, but also green, the taste will not suffer from this.
Features of care and landing
Many people like the pickled version of Striped Voyage tomatoes. For seedlings, these tomatoes need to be sown early enough, even in spring - in March or April, depending on where they are planned to be transplanted (earlier - if to the greenhouse, later - if just to the garden).
The depth of planting seeds in the ground is a centimeter or two. They dive after two or three full-fledged leaves appear on the plant.
If the seedlings are planted in a greenhouse to get an earlier harvest, this can be done already in the spring months, April-May, and if in open ground, then only at the beginning of the heat, in June. In any case, they are planted according to the 40 by 60 scheme, which should be adhered to quite strictly. The fact is that if planted more densely, fertility may suffer:
The striped flight belongs to the capricious varieties in this matter that do not tolerate thickening. This, in principle, is his only "capricious" requirement for growing conditions.
Tomato bushes of the Striped flight react very positively to feeding with complex fertilizers and other means that are specially designed to increase the resistance of bushes to pests and increase their fertility.
But even without this, the tomato has a fairly good resistance to pests and fungi, it likes abundant watering.
Gardeners who choose the Striped Flight for experimenting with tomatoes will be able, without too much effort, to get a good harvest of beautiful and tasty fruits that can be boasted to guests in the summer and prepared for future use for the long winter months. Its additional advantages are not capriciousness in care and resistance to traditional tomato diseases.
