The Striped Flight tomato is popular with both experienced vegetable growers and novice gardeners who want to get not just the usual red tomatoes for canning, but something quite unusual. And tomatoes of this variety will certainly delight them with just such a result!
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Features of the variety
Tomatoes have very good germination rates - 69%, which is above average. This variety is productive, and its fruits look elegant, justifying their unusual name. Let's take a closer look at the characteristics and description of the variety.
This is a determinate plant with an average height, but it still needs staking.The garter is made to the stakes, according to the same principle as any other tomato varieties. The weight of the fruits is about 30 - 40 grams, they abundantly cover the plant in clusters.
Each bunch contains from 20 to 30 fruits, which look attractive due to the chocolate-burgundy shade of the skin and pulp, and the unusual decoration - green stripes.
Tomatoes have an extraordinary taste - sweet and sour. They bear fruit equally well in open and closed ground, creating conditions for the productive use of the sown area, which most gardeners like, and are quite unpretentious in care. They do not require more attention than their traditional counterparts. There is no need to worry about fruit falling from the bunch.
Tomatoes of the Striped flight variety are distinguished by their density, elasticity and good taste; they look great on the table both fresh and salted or pickled. You can preserve them not only ripe, but also green, the taste will not suffer from this.
Features of care and planting
Many people like the pickled version of Striped Flight tomatoes. These tomatoes should be sown for seedlings quite early, in the spring - in March or April, depending on where they are planned to be transplanted (earlier - if in a greenhouse, later - if just in a garden bed).
The depth of planting seeds in the soil is a centimeter or two. They are picked after two or three full leaves appear on the plant.
If seedlings are planted in a greenhouse to obtain an earlier harvest, this can be done already in the spring months, April-May, and if in open ground, then only at the beginning of warm weather, in June. In any case, they are planted according to a 40 by 60 pattern, which should be adhered to quite strictly. The fact is that if planted more densely, fruitfulness may suffer:
Striped flight is a capricious variety in this matter that does not tolerate thickening. This, in principle, is his only “capricious” requirement for growing conditions.
Tomato bushes of the Striped Race react very positively to fertilizing with complex fertilizers and other products that are specifically designed to increase the resistance of the bushes to pests and increase their fruitfulness.
But even without this, the tomato has fairly good resistance to pests and fungi and loves abundant watering.
Gardeners who choose to experiment with Striped Flight tomatoes will be able, without too much effort, to get a good harvest of beautiful and tasty fruits that they can show off to guests in the summer and store for future use during the long winter months. Its additional advantages are ease of care and resistance to traditional tomato diseases.
