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What do gardeners want when choosing a tomato variety for planting? There are several requirements and they are all important.
- Good yield.
- Great taste.
- Universal use.
- Unpretentious care and disease resistance.
If you analyze the characteristics of many varieties well, it becomes clear that not all of them meet these requirements. Each has its own flaw, there are very few ideal varieties.
One such approaching ideal is the Wonder of the World tomato. The name is telling and promising. To find out whether its tomato variety justifies the Wonder of the World, we will draw up its characteristics and a detailed description, look at the photo and read the reviews of those who planted it.
Feature and Description
This amazing variety has another name - lemon liana. And, if you look at the photo, it immediately becomes clear why. Its fruits, rounded with a small nose, are surprisingly reminiscent of small lemons. Why liana? Of course, this tomato does not twist along a support, but it can grow up to 3 m with good care. This is one of the tallest varieties. At this height, the stem of the plant is not too thick, which will require some effort from gardeners when tying and forming a bush.
Tomato Wonder of the World was registered in the State Register of Breeding Achievements in 2001. It was created by the domestic company LTD from the city of Shchelkovo with the participation of the famous amateur breeder Feodosiy Mikhailovich Tarasenko... On his account there is more than one variety of tomato with complex brushes. Some of them are liana-shaped. Tomato Wonder of the World served as the basis for the creation of his legendary Hybrid-2 Tarasenko. What other features does the Wonder of the World have?
- It belongs to indeterminate tomatoes.
- In terms of ripening - medium late, but in fact - closer to late.
- The bush is formed into 1 or 2 stems. You need to tie up not only the plants themselves, but also each brush. This variety has a peculiarity: curling the leaves around the edges. If they are of normal size, the gardener has nothing to worry about. For a tomato of the Wonder of the World variety, this is the norm.
- Each stem bears about 4 compound clusters containing 15 to 40 tomatoes.
- The average weight of one fruit is about 70 g, but, according to gardeners, with good care, tomatoes of 120 g are not uncommon.
- The color of the fruit is lemon yellow, the taste is very good, since the sugar content in tomatoes reaches 5%. They are very dense and well transported. Tomatoes with yellow fruits have a high carotene content. They are suitable for food for those who are allergic to red tomatoes.
- The purpose of the fruit is universal. In their reviews, gardeners note the high quality of canned tomatoes Wonder of the World. They are especially good in salting.
- The yield of this variety is simply amazing - up to 12 kg per bush! Tomatoes in the greenhouse can be harvested in buckets.
- Tomatoes Wonder of the World are resistant to many diseases of nightshade crops, they are affected by late blight last.
Giving a full description and characterizing the Wonder of the World tomato variety, one cannot but mention their peculiarity: it has great drought resistance due to its powerful root system. Even in dived tomatoes, it makes its way into the soil by 1.5 m.
There are many features in the cultivation of liana-shaped tomatoes, they must be taken into account in order to get a record harvest.
Growing up, leaving
Since tomatoes of this variety are medium-late varieties, they need to be planted for seedlings at the end of February, otherwise they will not have time to show their full potential.
Growing seedlings
Before sowing, the seeds need to be prepared. You can go the traditional way: calibrate them, pickle them in fungicide or potassium permanganate, soak them in a growth stimulator, germinate. But this method does not guarantee that all planted seeds will be completely healthy, as well as the plants obtained from them. New drugs have appeared on the market that are able to stimulate germination only completely free from pathogens of seeds, the rest simply will not sprout. They also reject all seeds with a damaged embryo. The composition of Flora-S and Fitopa-Flora-S contains humic acids, they have exactly these properties.
What are the benefits of using these substances?
- Increase of germination energy in some cases up to 18%.
- Increase in seed germination by about 5%.
- The power of the root system doubles.
- Tomatoes take root faster after transplanting.
- Fruits grow larger on tomato bushes.
- The adaptive capacity of plants is increased.
Tomatoes will need 2 to 3 days of aging in this preparation.
After soaking, the seeds are sown in the traditional way, but it is better immediately in separate containers, which are filled with fertile soil. It is optimal if it is taken from its own beds, but not from those where nightshade crops have been planted for the previous 3 years. For safety, it is better to freeze the soil.
Seedling keeping conditions
- The night temperature is about 18 degrees, the daytime is about 22.
- Regular watering as the soil clod dries. The water should be warm and settled.
- A pick in the phase of a pair of true leaves, if tomato seeds were sown in one container.
- Content on a well-lit windowsill. If necessary, supplementary lighting with phytolamps. For a tomato of the Wonder of the World variety, it may be needed, since it is sown at a time when the daylight hours are still short.
- With weak development, additional feeding will be required either biofertilizer, or a complex mineral fertilizer of low concentration.
Transplanting
It also has its own peculiarities. Tomato is a thermophilic crop, its roots will not function if the soil temperature is less than 15 degrees Celsius. Therefore, everything must be done so that the soil in the greenhouse warms up faster. The Wonder of the World tomato variety has a powerful root system, so such plants need to be planted less often - a meter apart and fed very well.
For planting, pits are made at a distance of a meter. They must have a half-meter diameter and a depth of at least 40 cm. The pit is filled with a mixture of humus and the removed top layer of soil. Add 2-3 handfuls of ash, Art. a spoonful of complex fertilizer and spill well. If you want to get a more powerful root system, you can plant the seedlings horizontally by removing some of the leaves. Orient it with the top of the head to the north.
After planting, the soil around the bushes is mulched with a ten-centimeter layer of organic material: dried cut grass, straw, hay.
Further care
It also has its own peculiarities. Tomatoes Wonder of the World need to be fed regularly. The first feeding is carried out with mullein infusion 12-14 days after planting. In the future, plants will need more potassium.They are fed with a complex mineral fertilizer intended for tomatoes once a decade.
During flowering, brushes 2 and 3, tomatoes are sprayed with a solution of boric acid so that all the numerous flowers turn into ovaries.
For feeding, you can prepare a herbal cocktail. A barrel with a volume of 200 liters will require:
- a third of the volume of nettle;
- a couple of shovels of cow dung;
- 3 liters of milk whey;
- 2 kg baker's yeast.
The contents of the barrel are filled with water for a couple of weeks.
After insisting, a liter of nutrient solution is added to each bucket of water. You can water them the Miracle of the World tomatoes at the root every decade.
Tomato Wonder of the World is considered a drought-resistant variety, but with timely weekly watering it will feel more comfortable.
There are features in the formation of plants. In addition to a high-quality garter of both trunks and each brush, regular pinching and removal of leaves will be required after the formation of fruits below the brush.
Usually, tomatoes in the greenhouse are pinched at the end of July. But experienced gardeners advise not to do this at the Wonder of the World tomato, but to give it the opportunity to grow to the roof of the greenhouse. If you are not sure that all the tomatoes will ripen, you should remove an 8-10 brush.
Liana tomatoes Wonder of the world require special careful care, but it pays off a hundredfold with the huge harvest that they can give.
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