Original yellow tomatoes look elegant and are suitable for people who are allergic to traditional red fruits. Choosing the right variety, you should plant it in your garden.
Preference is given to high-yielding varieties with large and fleshy fruits, such as the Orange Heart.
Tomato variety "Orange Heart" is bred by Russian breeders. Suitable for any region, designed for growing in film shelters, greenhouses or open ground.
Productivity is high, the collected fruits are well stored, transportation is possible.
Basic data
Grade name | Orange heart |
general description | Mid-season indeterminantny grade |
Originator | Russia |
Ripening | 110-115 days |
The form | Round heart |
Colour | Orange yellow |
Average tomato mass | 150-300 grams |
Application | Salad variety |
Yield varieties | 6-10 kg from a bush |
Features of growing | Sensitive to feed |
Disease resistance | Resistant to major diseases |
Tomato "Orange Heart", description of the variety: mid-season high-yielding variety. Indeterminate shrub, moderately sprawling, abundantly leafy, up to 1.8 m high. The leaf is simple, medium-sized, dark green.
Fruits are large, weighing 150-300 g. The shape is rounded-heart-shaped, with a slightly pointed tip and noticeable ribbing at the stem. The color of the tomatoes in the technical ripeness phase is pale yellow with a green spot, ripening, or they acquire a bright orange-yellow shade.
The flesh is juicy, fleshy, with a small amount of seeds. The taste is very pleasant, rich and sweet, with light fruity notes and delicate aroma. The high content of sugars allows us to recommend a variety for baby food.
Compare the weight of fruit varieties Dubok with others you can in the table below:
Grade name | Fruit weight (grams) |
Orange heart | 150-300 |
Broody | 90-150 |
Andromeda | 70-300 |
Pink Lady | 230-280 |
Gulliver | 200-800 |
Banana red | 70 |
Nastya | 150-200 |
Olya-la | 150-180 |
Dubrava | 60-105 |
Countryman | 60-80 |
Golden anniversary | 150-200 |
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Way to use
Tomatoes belong to the salad. They are delicious fresh, suitable for cooking soups, side dishes, mashed potatoes, sauces. Ripe tomatoes make a thick sweet juice. You can drink it fresh or canned.
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Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety:
- excellent taste of ripe fruit;
- high content of sugars, amino acids, vitamins;
- high yield;
- good transportability;
- tomatoes are resistant to major diseases;
- easy to care for.
The features include the need to form a high spreading bush and sensitivity of the variety to top dressing.
The yield of other varieties can be found in the table below:
Grade name | Yield |
Orange heart | 6-10 kg from a bush |
Katya | 15 kg per square meter |
Nastya | 10-12 kg per square meter |
Crystal | 9.5-12 kg per square meter |
Dubrava | 2 kg from a bush |
Red Arrow | 27 kg per square meter |
Golden anniversary | 15-20 kg per square meter |
Verlioka | 5 kg per square meter |
Diva | 8 kg from a bush |
Explosion | 3 kg per square meter |
Golden heart | 7 kg per square meter |
Growing tips
Tomatoes "Orange Heart" variety is best propagated by seedling method. Seeds are sown in February, before planting they are treated with a growth stimulator for better germination. The substrate is composed of a mixture of garden soil with humus.
Preferred soil, which grew herbs, carrots, cabbage or beans. Do not take the land from the beds where they grew eggplants or tomatoes. Wood ash, potassium sulfate or superphosphate is added to the substrate.
Seeds are sown with minimal penetration (not more than 1.5 cm). After germination, the containers are exposed to bright light and carefully watered from a watering can or spray bottle. When the first pair of true leaves unfolds on the seedlings, the young tomatoes dive and then feed them with a complex liquid fertilizer with a predominance of nitrogen.
The seedlings are moved to the greenhouse in the second half of May, to the beds closer to the beginning of June. Planted tomatoes are recommended to cover the film. On 1 square. m placed 2-3 bush.
Humus unfolds through the holes; after planting, the soil is compacted and watered with warm water. During the season, tomatoes are fed 3-4 times with a full complex fertilizer, which can be alternated with an aqueous solution of mullein.
Grown up plants form 2 stalks, removing side stepsons and lower leaves. After the beginning of flowering, it is recommended to pinch off the deformed or small flowers on the hands. This procedure stimulates the formation of ovaries, the fruits will be larger.
Diseases and pests
Tomatoes "Orange Heart" resistant to major diseases, but preventive measures do not interfere. Frequent airing, loosening of the soil with removal of weeds, attentive watering without stagnation of moisture in the soil will help against summit or root rot.
To get rid of insect pests by using industrial insecticides or infusion of celandine. They have an excellent effect on thrips, spider mites, whitefly. Slugs can be killed with a solution of ammonia, aphids being washed away with warm water and laundry soap.
"Orange Heart" is a great variety for connoisseurs of yellow tomatoes. Plants do not require excessive care, with proper care and generous dressings, they will surely thank you for an excellent harvest.
In the table below you will find links to varieties of tomatoes with different ripening terms:
Mid-season | Middle late | Late-ripening |
Gina | Abakansky pink | Bobcat |
Ox ears | French grapevine | Russian size |
Roma f1 | Yellow banana | King of Kings |
Black Prince | Titanium | Long keeper |
Lorraine beauty | Slot f1 | Grandma's Gift |
Stellate sturgeon | Volgogradsky 5 95 | Podsinskoe miracle |
Intuition | Krasnobay f1 | Brown sugar |