Useful, tasty and various tomatoes are grown by gardeners. Today, tomato varieties that are not familiar to us reign on the table - round and red, but black, yellow, orange and even purple fruits of the most varied form.
Each of them has its own beneficial properties - the variety of colors is due to different substances contained in tomatoes, and each of them carries its own complex of vitamins and minerals necessary for our body.
Tomatoes Icicle: variety description
Black icicle.
It is a mid-early variety with good yield and fruits with a refined taste. Refers to the indeterminate type, the bush grows to 2 m. The aging period from 90 to 110 days.
It grows equally well in the open field and under the film cover. Forms brushes after 9 sheets and then can form them even after 1 sheet. Brush brings 6-9 medium-sized fruits. It is necessary to form 3-4 stalks.
The tomato tolerates bad weather and is resistant to disease.
Hybrids of the same name - "Icicle Yellow" and "Icicle Orange". In fact, tomatoes of this shape may still have a pink, cream and red color.
"Black icicle" is derived by the Ukrainian breeder. There is no variety under this name in the Russian State Register of Breeding Achievements.
Icicle yellow.
Indeterminantny variety, giving a bush-liana to 3 m. It is a greenhouse tomato, although it can grow in open ground. In the greenhouse, it is allowed to grow, and in the open field they pinch to stop growth by about 1.7 meters.
Forms brushes after 9 sheets, then - in 2-3. On a brush to 10 fruits. In a greenhouse, a tomato can bear fruit until the end of October. By the time of maturation refers to medium late, the growing season is 120 days. It is characterized by high yield. It is the result of the work of Siberian breeders.
Icicle orange.
Medium early high-yielding variety of tomatoes. It grows equally well in greenhouses and in the open field.
Indeterminate tomato with a bush height of more than 2 m. It is necessary to form 2-3 stems. On a brush grows up to 15 fruits.
Differs in long fructification and quite good weight of fruits - from 100 to 200 grams. Its existence "Icicle Orange" is obliged to Russian breeders. It has increased resistance to fungal diseases.
Fruit Description
Varieties "Icicles" have the form of elongated cream with a small tip. The color of the fruit is brown, bright yellow and orange. They all have a rich sweet dessert flavor. Thanks to this taste, the Black Icicle enjoys great love from the chefs of expensive restaurants and has great commercial potential.
Black fruits have a weight of 80-100 g, yellow - 150-180, orange from 100 to 200 g. All three varieties are distinguished by their fleshy, low-compartment and well tolerated transportation and storage.
The advantage is the same size of the fruit, which makes them ideal for whole-fruit canning.
Features of growing
Since all three varieties are indeterminate, cultivation and care for them are about the same. "Icicles" are suitable for growing in any region under the film, and in the middle lane and in the south - in open ground. The yield of varieties - up to 10 kg of tomatoes from a bush. The deadline for planting seeds is the end of March - beginning of April, landing in the ground in May. Harvesting from July to late October.
- Bushes of all varieties require tying and pasynkovaniya.
- When forming in 1 stalk, all stepchildren are removed, in two - all but one of them growing into the second full-fledged stalk are removed. Accordingly, the bush is also formed in 3-4 stalks. If you do not remove the stepchildren, the bush will go to the green mass, and the fruits are completely crushed.
- Pinching should be carried out regularly, as the stepchildren are formed constantly.
It should not be used to remove excess processes tool, it is better to do it with your hands, making sure that the plant juice does not fall on them.
Diseases and pests
All three varieties of "Icicles" - black, yellow and orange - are resistant to various rot, and yellow has an increased resistance to late blight. If fungal diseases occur, the affected fruits are first removed, then fungicides are applied. When viral diseases occur, it is cheaper and more efficient to remove and burn a single diseased plant. Serious measures with the use of special drugs should be taken if most or all of the plantation is affected.
Fruits of all varieties are excellent for whole-canning. They are especially good for fresh consumption due to its unusual dessert taste. From the "Icicle Orange" it turns out beautiful, unusual color ketchup. All varieties are suitable for all types of blanks.
