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What do gardeners want when choosing a tomato variety to plant? There are several requirements and they are all important.
- Good yield.
- Great taste.
- Universal use.
- Easy to care for and disease resistant.
If you carefully analyze the characteristics of many varieties, it becomes clear that not all of them meet these requirements. Each has its own drawback; there are very few ideal varieties.
One of these that approaches the ideal is the Wonder of the World tomato. The title is telling and promising. To find out whether the Wonder of the World tomato variety justifies it, let’s compile its characteristics and detailed description, look at the photo and read the reviews of those who planted it.
Characteristics and description
This amazing variety also has another name - lemon liana. And, if you look at the photo, it immediately becomes clear why. Its rounded fruits with a small nose surprisingly resemble small lemons. Why liana? Of course, this tomato does not climb on a support, but with good care it can grow up to 3 m. 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 it up and forming the bush.
The Wonder of the World tomato was registered in the State Register of Breeding Achievements in 2001. It was created by the domestic company LTD from Shchelkovo with the participation of the famous amateur breeder Feodosius Mikhailovich Tarasenko. He has produced more than one variety of tomato with complex trusses. Some of them have a vine-like shape. The Wonder of the World tomato 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 the indeterminate tomatoes.
- In terms of ripening time, it is medium late, but in reality it is closer to late.
- The bush is formed into 1 or 2 stems. It is necessary to tie up not only the plants themselves, but also each cluster. This variety has a peculiarity: curling of the leaves along the edges. If they are of normal size, the gardener has nothing to worry about. For the Miracle of the World tomato variety, this is the norm.
- Each stem bears approximately 4 complex clusters containing from 15 to 40 tomatoes.
- The average weight of one fruit is about 70 g, but according to gardeners, with good care, tomatoes weighing 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 transport well. Tomatoes with yellow fruits have a high carotene content. They are suitable 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 Miracle of the World tomatoes. They are especially good when pickled.
- The yield of this variety is simply amazing - up to 12 kg per bush! Tomatoes in a greenhouse can be collected in buckets.
- Miracle of the World tomatoes are resistant to many diseases of nightshade crops; they are the last to be affected by late blight.
Giving a full description and characterization of the Miracle of the World variety of tomatoes, one cannot help but mention their peculiarity: it has great drought resistance due to its powerful root system. Even in pickled tomatoes it penetrates 1.5 m deep into the soil.
There are many peculiarities in growing liana-shaped tomatoes; they must be taken into account in order to get a record harvest.
Growing, care
Since tomatoes of this variety are mid-late varieties, they need to be planted as 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 route: calibrate them, pickle them in a fungicide or potassium permanganate, soak them in a growth stimulator, and germinate them. But this method does not guarantee that all planted seeds will be completely healthy, as well as the plants obtained from them. New preparations have appeared on the market that are capable of stimulating only seeds that are completely free from pathogens to germinate; the rest simply will not sprout. They will also reject all seeds with a damaged embryo. Flora-S and Fitopa-Flora-S contain humic acids, they have exactly these properties.
What are the benefits of using these substances?
- Increase in germination energy in some cases up to 18%.
- Increases seed germination by approximately 5%.
- The power of the root system increases by 2 times.
- Tomatoes take root faster after planting seedlings.
- The fruits on tomato bushes grow larger.
- The adaptive abilities of plants increase.
Tomatoes will require aging in this preparation for 2 to 3 days.
After soaking, the seeds are sown in the traditional way, but it is better to immediately into separate containers that are filled with fertile soil. It is optimal if it is taken from your own beds, but not from those where nightshade crops were planted over the previous 3 years. For safety, it is better to freeze the soil.
Conditions for keeping seedlings
- The night temperature is about 18 degrees, the daytime temperature is about 22.
- Regular watering as the soil ball dries out. The water should be warm and settled.
- Picking in the phase of a pair of true leaves, if the tomato seeds were sown in one container.
- Keep on a well-lit windowsill. If necessary, additional illumination with phytolamps. For the Miracle of the World tomato variety, it may be needed, since it is sown at a time when daylight hours are still short.
- With poor development, additional feeding will be required or biofertilizer, or complex mineral fertilizer of low concentration.
Transplanting
This also has its own characteristics. Tomato is a heat-loving crop; its roots will not function if the soil temperature is less than 15 degrees Celsius. Therefore, you need to do everything to warm the soil in the greenhouse faster.The Miracle of the World tomato variety has a powerful root system, so such plants need to be planted less often - a meter apart from each other - and fed very well.
For planting, holes are made at a distance of a meter. They must have a half-meter diameter and a depth of at least 40 cm. Fill the hole with a mixture of humus and the removed top layer of soil. Add 2-3 handfuls of ash, tbsp. spoon of complex fertilizer and pour well. If you want to get a more powerful root system, you can plant the seedlings horizontally, removing some of the leaves. Orient it with the top of its head to the north.
After planting, the soil around the bushes is mulched with a ten-centimeter layer of organic material: dried mown grass, straw, hay.
Further care
This also has its own characteristics. Miracle of the World tomatoes 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 complex mineral fertilizer intended for tomatoes once a decade.
During flowering, the 2nd and 3rd bunches of 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. For a 200 liter barrel you will need:
- a third of the volume of nettles;
- a couple of shovels of cow dung;
- 3 liters of whey;
- 2 kg baker's yeast.
The contents of the barrel are filled with water for a couple of weeks.
After infusion, add a liter of nutrient solution to each bucket of water. You can water Miracle of the World tomatoes with it at the root every decade.
The Miracle of the World tomato is considered a drought-resistant variety, but with timely weekly watering it will feel more comfortable.
There are also peculiarities in the formation of plants. In addition to high-quality gartering of both trunks and each cluster, regular pinching and removal of leaves will be required after the formation of fruits below the cluster.
Typically, tomatoes in a greenhouse are pinched at the end of July. But experienced gardeners advise not to do this with the Miracle 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 8-10 bunches.
Liana-shaped tomatoes Miracle of the World require special careful care, but it pays off handsomely with the huge harvest that they can produce.
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