Making a plan of planting tomatoes, you should include Honey Heart - an early ripe variety with compact bushes and very tasty fruits.
Sweet and juicy tomatoes are ideal for salads, they can be given to children, as well as people in need of dietary nutrition.
In this article, you will find a full description of the variety, you will get acquainted with its characteristics, find out which diseases it can be exposed to, and which one it successfully withstands.
Tomato "Honey Heart" F1: description of the variety
Grade name | Honey Heart |
general description | Early ripe determinant high-yielding grade for cultivation in greenhouses and an open ground |
Originator | Russia |
Ripening | 90-95 days |
The form | Heart-shaped |
Colour | Bright yellow |
Average tomato mass | 120-140 |
Application | Suitable for salads, side dishes, soups and mashed potatoes. From fruits it turns out very tasty juice, suitable for baby and dietary food. |
Yield varieties | 8.5 per square meter |
Features of growing | The variety is demanding on the nutritional value of the soil and fertilizers. |
Disease resistance | The variety is resistant to major diseases of the nightshade. |
The variety of Siberian selection is bred for cultivation in open ground or under film. Due to the compactness of planting bushes save space in the garden.
Suitable for all regions except the north. Possible landing in vases and containers for placement on glazed balconies and verandas. The harvest is well preserved, the unripe fruits collected at the end of the season successfully reach physiological ripeness at home.
Honey Heart - an early ripe high-yielding grade. The first fruits ripen in 90-95 days after sowing the seeds. The bush is determinant, compact, not requiring staking and tying. Green mass formation is moderate. With one square meter of planting can be removed up to 8.5 kg of ripe tomatoes. About indeterminantny grades read here.
You can compare the crop yield with others in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Honey Heart | 8.5 per square meter |
Gulliver | 7 kg from a bush |
Lady shedi | 7.5 kg per square meter |
Fat jack | 5-6 kg from a bush |
Doll | 8-9 kg per square meter |
Summer resident | 4 kg from a bush |
Lazy man | 15 kg per square meter |
The president | 7-9 kg per square meter |
King of the market | 10-12 kg per square meter |
Specifications
Fruits are medium in size, weighing 120-140 g, rounded-heart-shaped, with a slightly pointed tip. Tomatoes are very pleasant to the taste, rich-sweet, with delicate sourness. Seed chambers are few, the pulp is dense and juicy, the skin is strong. Bright yellow, very beautiful fruits contain a large amount of sugars and beta-carotene, suitable for diet and baby food. Ripe tomatoes do not crack, they are well stored and carry the transportation without any problems.
You can compare the weight of the fruits of the Honey Heart with other varieties in the table below:
Grade name | Fruit weight (grams) |
Honey Heart | 120-140 |
Fatima | 300-400 |
Caspar | 80-120 |
The Golden Fleece | 85-100 |
Diva | 120 |
Irina | 120 |
Batyana | 250-400 |
Dubrava | 60-105 |
Nastya | 150-200 |
Mazarin | 300-600 |
Pink Lady | 230-280 |
Juicy fleshy tomatoes are ideal for making salads, side dishes, soups and mashed potatoes. From fruits it turns out very tasty juice, suitable for baby and dietary food.
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- excellent yield;
- high taste of fruits;
- tomatoes are suitable for salads, side dishes, making juices and mashed potatoes;
- high content of sugars and beta-carotene;
- universality, cultivation in an open ground and under a film is possible;
- compact bushes do not require supports and pasynkovaniya;
- the variety is resistant to diseases and pests.
There are practically no flaws in the Honey Heart. The only condition for obtaining a good harvest - fertile soil with frequent dressings.
As feedings you can use: iodine, organics, yeast, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, ash, boric acid.
A photo
You can see the fruits of the “Honey Heart” tomato in the photo:
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Features of growing
The grade "Honey heart" is exacting to nutritiousness of soil.
Seeds are soaked for 12 hours in a growth stimulator, and then sown with a depth of 1.5-2 cm. It is better to germinate under a film, you can use mini-greenhouses. Watering is moderate, not more than 1 time in 5-6 days. The optimum temperature for seedlings is 23-25 degrees.
After unfolding 2 of these leaves, seedlings dive into separate pots. After picking, it is recommended to feed with a liquid complex fertilizer with a high content of phosphorus and potassium.
Watering is moderate, 1 time in 6 days. At the beginning or middle of May, tomatoes can be transplanted to a permanent place of residence, in a greenhouse made of glass or polycarbonate, in the ground under a film or greenhouse. How to prepare the soil in the greenhouse in the spring, read here.
Young plants are planted at a distance of 40 cm, between the rows is to leave a space of 60-70 cm. The thickening of the plantings adversely affect the yield. During the season, the plants are fed 3–4 times with a full complex fertilizer, and organic matter (diluted mullein, bird droppings) is also possible.
Compact bushes can not tie up, pasynkovanie also not required. Watering moderate, in between, the top layer of soil should be slightly dry. To accelerate ripening in the greenhouse, you can put the tanks with an aqueous solution of mullein. It is not forbidden to use mulching.
Pests and diseases
The variety is resistant to the main diseases of Solanaceae: late blight, tobacco mosaic, gray or root rot. As a preventive measure, planting can be sprayed with an aqueous solution of phytosporin or another non-toxic bio-drug. Presowing treatment of seeds with hydrogen peroxide or potassium permanganate helps.
We will also tell you about all means of protection against late blight and diseases such as Alternaria, Fusarium and Verticilliasis.
Tomatoes Honey Heart - delicious and beautiful tomatoes that should be planted on your site. Compact bushes, abundant fruiting and undemanding to the conditions of detention make the variety an excellent option for novice gardeners.
Below you will find links to varieties of tomatoes with different ripening terms:
Medium early | Late-ripening | Mid-season |
New Transnistria | Rocket | Hospitable |
Pullet | American ribbed | Red pear |
Sugar giant | De barao | Chernomor |
Torbay f1 | Titanium | Benito F1 |
Tretyakovsky | Long keeper | Paul Robson |
Black Crimea | King of Kings | Raspberry elephant |
Chio Chio San | Russian size | Mashenka |