Tomato Lorraine beauty: characteristics and description of the variety, yield with photo

If we classify tomatoes by use, we can distinguish four large groups - salad, processed, universal, decorative and gift - with specific and unusual fruits. One of the brightest representatives of the latter is the beauty of Lorraine tomatoes. Their main purpose is to decorate the table.

Fruit characteristics

Tomato Lorraine beauty 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 multi-chamber, hollow, almost without seeds. The taste is sweetish with sourness. Suitable only for fresh consumption - cutting or stuffing looks spectacular on the table. Dense, resistant to cracking. Long stored. Ripens well when picked brown.

Variety properties

The tomato is of American origin, or rather US selection. Tomatoes of indeterminate type, height from 1.5 to 2 meters. Mid-late ripening period - 110-120 days. It is grown both in greenhouses and open ground. Self-pollinated. The yield is low - no more than 3-4 kg per bush. Under adverse weather conditions, you can generally get 2-3 tomatoes.

Characteristics of resistance to viral and fungal diseases are as follows: resistant to Fusarium wilt, gray leaf spot, tobacco mosaic, Alternaria stem cancer, verticillium, cladosporiosis, nematode. Not resistant to root and white rot.

The bush is not standard - the stems of a thin constitution, large, slightly corrugated leaves. Even in the description of the variety, it can be added that, due to its specificity, it is not grown in agriculture on an industrial scale. This is a tomato gardener lovers, collectors of unusual plants.

Features of cultivation

Tomatoes of the Lorraine Beauty variety in terms of cultivation technology do not differ from most classic varieties:

• sowing seeds - getting seedlings.
• picking.
• planting seedlings.
• growing - watering, top dressing, 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 phase 2 -3 real leaves - dive.Planted approximately 30 days after picking. If the warm weather has not yet established, the seedlings should be "toured" - treated with the "Tour" preparation, or with another growth regulator, in order to avoid overgrowing.

Planting pattern 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 done by removing stepchildren and garter. Produced in one trunk, however, according to gardeners, there is a successful experience of growing tomatoes in two trunks.

Selection of dressings according to the classical P-N-K scheme. For the period of development, a complex with a large percentage of nitrogen, during flowering and ovary - phosphorus, when the fruit ripens, potassium is needed. To prevent blossom end rot, periodically give Ca, that is, calcium nitrate.Fruiting continues as long as weather conditions permit. With the onset of cold weather, still green fruits will perfectly reach at room temperature.

Lorraine beauty yellow

Besides red, there is also a yellow variety with ribbed, corrugated fruits. According to the general characteristics, these two tomatoes are similar - both indeterminants of the average ripening period. The color of the tomato is bright, yellow-orange. The cut looks very nice along with the red ones, very similar to flowers.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

Benefits include:

• Lorraine beauty, a tomato of a spectacular, unusual look, reminiscent of dahlia flowers;
• high palatability;
• 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 greenhouses.

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