Agricultural stores provide a wide variety of tomato seeds. Among them, you can find very unusual. Many buyers are attracted by the packaging of tomato seeds Honey Salute, which depicts a yellow-golden fruit with red stripes and spots. The variety is attractive not only for the look, but also for the taste - very sweet. What other features of the plant are there and how to grow it, we will describe further in the article.
Description and characteristics of the variety
The bush at the Honey Salute of indeterminate type grows up to 1.5 m under adverse conditions and up to 1.8 m with proper care. It has many stems and stepsons in the lower part of the bush. There are relatively many leaves on the bush. The first inflorescence appears after 9-12 leaves. Large fruits are formed on the hands, weighing 200-400 g of a round shape, slightly flattened at the peduncle. Their color is yellow, golden yellow, with reddish spots, stripes. The pulp is also two-tone, dense, sweet. It has five seed chambers.
Did you know? Honey salute was bred in 1999 by Russian breeders, and it entered the register only five years later.
Variety characteristic:
- 120 days after sowing the seeds, the first fruits can be picked.
- A tall bush requires mandatory garter and formation.
- The greens on the bush are not very dense. Each subsequent brush appears after two or three sheets from the first, which is formed over 9-12 sheets.
- Each brush can have 6-8 fruits.
- The fruits have a delicate skin.
- The yield of the variety is 6.5 kg per square meter.
- It is desirable to grow a mid-season plant in a greenhouse.
Pros and cons of the variety
- The advantages of culture include:
- great honey taste;
- original coloring of fruits;
- resistance to the tobacco mosaic virus.
- Cons of culture:
- grown only in a greenhouse;
- exacting to the soil (loves fertile);
- requires regular formation;
- unstable to popular tomato diseases.
Features of growing varieties
A slightly capricious tomato variety requires increased attention even at the stage of seedling cultivation.
Important! The pick is carried out after the appearance of two true leaves.
Optimal conditions
In order for the shoots to be friendly and timely, you need to maintain the temperature at + 20 ° C. The room where the seedlings are located should be dark and with moderate humidity. With the advent of the first seedlings, one should transfer the seedlings to a well-lit place and lower the temperature to + 16 ... + 18 ° С during the day, and at night - to +13 ... + 15 ° С. Humidity should remain moderate.
Features of sowing seeds
Sowing seeds for seedlings is carried out on March 10-15. Before starting planting, you need to carefully study the packaging with seeds. If it is noted that the treatment was carried out, then they do not need additional disinfection. If there was no treatment, then the seed should be soaked in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for 30 minutes. Before placing the seeds in the solution, they need to be wrapped in gauze. After the disinfection procedure, the seeds should be washed and dried. After that, they are placed for several hours in clean water.
Important! Timely weed removal — a guarantee that late blight does not hit the bushes. Destroy the weeds every week.
Sowing is carried out as follows:
- Prepare a plastic cup, box or peat pot.
- The bottom of the tank is lined with an expanded clay layer of 20 mm.
- Above the drainage, an earthen mixture for seedlings is poured, which should be previously calcined in the oven.
- Humidify the earth. On its surface, if a box is used, seeds are laid out at an interval of 40 cm. When planting in cups in one well, 2-3 seeds are placed.
- Sprinkle the seeds with a 10 mm layer of soil.
- Crops are covered with a film and placed in a suitable place.
Video: sowing tomato seeds
Proper planting seedlings
The seed producer recommends planting seedlings of Honey Salute on May 10–15. By this time, seedlings should be 65–70 days old. Planting is carried out in a greenhouse according to this scheme:
- Dig holes in a row at a bed with an interval of 0.4 m. 0.6 m should be left between rows.
- The seedling is carefully removed from the cup, pinch the main root and placed in the hole along the neck.
- The plant is sprinkled with earth, rammed and watered.
Tomato Care
A planted plant in a greenhouse should be looked after no less carefully than seedlings. It is very important to water the bushes in time and to pinch them.
Fertilizers and watering
Watering should be done in a timely manner. A moderate amount of water should be poured under the bush so that the soil is well moistened, but the moisture does not stagnate. The frequency of watering should be 2-3 times a week. Use should be warm water. Feeding is carried out every 15-20 days. Complex fertilizers based on phosphates, potassium and nitrogen compounds are used. Organics such as a mixture of manure, mullein and peat can be used.
Pasynkovka and formation of a bush
Tomato bushes are very tall and give a lot of stepsons, so they should be formed into one or two stems. When forming in one stem after the appearance of 4-6 inflorescences, pinch the top and regularly break off the stepsons. Break off all shoots that appear below the first brush. When they form in two stems, then leave one shoot under the first flower brush, and also stepchildren are constantly removed below.
Soil cultivation and weeding
The soil in the bed is loosened every two weeks. This procedure strengthens the root system and reduces the likelihood of pest attacks. To the root system grows better, bushes should be spud.
Pests and diseases
Honey Salute has a long growing season, so it has an increased risk of contracting common diseases of a bacterial or fungal nature. Because of this, you need to take care of preventive measures. To do this, it is enough to treat the bushes with Bordeaux liquid and copper-containing solutions 2-3 times a week. When phytophthora appears, phytosporin (5 g / 1 bucket of water) should be used.
Harvesting and storage
The fruits of the Honey Salute begin to ripen in August. Fruiting ends in early September. Store the crop only in the refrigerator. Under such conditions, they can lie for a maximum of 45 days. The unusual appearance of the fruits of Honey Salute allows you to cook original salads and preserves from them, and the honey taste makes it possible to use them fresh. But to get these great tomatoes, you need to work hard.
