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Among the new achievements of breeders, it is worth mentioning the tomato variety Boni MM. The plant organically combines those advantages, because of which gardeners include it in the list of mandatory varieties for planting on their plots. This is a real explosion of quality: ultra-early, unpretentious, undersized and tasty. Maybe the name was given to an excellent variety of tomato by analogy with the perfection of the style of the legendary disco group. By the way, on sale, in various descriptions or reviews, this plant is also called the Boni M tomato variant. But you need to know that we are talking about the same variety of tomatoes, which has been included in the State Register for several years.
Variety description
Boni MM tomatoes are included in the group of determinant plants. The bush of these tomatoes grows until the inflorescence develops. Usually the first cluster of fruits is formed above the sixth or seventh leaf of the stem. From now on, the plant has a different task – to supply all the elements to the flowers, and later to the ovaries, which turn very quickly into bright red fruits, alluring with their fresh indescribable taste. The height of the tomato variety Boni M reaches 40-50 centimeters. Only with an excess mass of the nutrient medium or on oily natural soil, the bush can stretch up to 60 centimeters. Due to these properties of the plant, it is widely used by gardeners as a compactor between tall varieties of tomatoes.
Boni MM tomato bushes are standard, upright, with an average number of branches and dark green small leaves on a strong stem of moderate thickness. After the first inflorescence, others can be laid on the plant – they are not separated by leaves. The peduncle has articulations.
The fruits are red, round, flat, slightly ribbed. Inside are two or three small seed chambers. Tomato berry Boni MM weighs 50-70 g. There are reviews with greater variability in the mass of fruits of this variety: 40-100 g. One tomato plant can produce up to two kilograms of a healthy vegetable. From the bushes located on 1 square. m, collect 5-6,5 kg of delicious fruits. The juicy berries of this tomato have a pleasant, rich taste, which is distinguished by the expected sourness and sweetness of the first vegetables.
Due to the dense, fleshy pulp and elastic skin, the fruits remain plucked for some time, they normally tolerate transportation.
Characteristics
The tomato variety Boni M has become popular through a number of distinctive features. Their characteristics are only positive.
- Super early ripening: fruiting occurs in 80-85 days from emergence. This allows the plant to avoid infection with late blight, and makes it easier for the gardener to care for;
- Ripeness comes together in most fruits on the brush. In almost two weeks, a tomato bush of this variety gives up its entire crop, which allows you to continue using the garden bed for other crops;
- Low bushes allow the gardener to relax with this variety: the plant can not be stepson and not tied up. Although, with proper care, the tomato crop makes it necessary to make a support for an overloaded bush of a low plant;
- Boni M tomatoes were recommended by the authors of the variety as a plant for open ground, but they are perfectly grown both in greenhouse beds and in ordinary film shelters. In the northern regions, the variety has become one of the favorite vegetable plants;
- The unsurpassed feature of these tomatoes is unpretentiousness and resistance to pathogens of fungal infections. Even in rather poor soil and in cool, rainy weather, the yield of their bushes does not fail;
- Transportability and keeping quality permit the cultivation of Boni M tomatoes as a commercial variety.
Growing stages
The timing of sowing tomato seeds Boni M for seedlings depends on when the gardener planned to harvest useful fruits.
- If you dream of eating your own grown tomato berries in June, seeds are sown in seedling boxes from the beginning of March;
- Residents of the northern regions start growing tomato seedlings of this variety at the end of March. Then the term for planting young plants under film shelters will already be in the warm season without frost;
- In the middle climatic zone, it is recommended to build film shelters over the area for sowing these tomatoes. They sow earlier, in the third decade of April and the first decade of May, when the soil has already warmed up. When the third leaf appears on the plants, the films can be removed, but with the possibility of reinstalling them in case of a likely low temperature in the morning;
- In warmer areas, following the feedback of those gardeners who planted the Boni MM tomato, they sow the seeds simply on the beds in mid-May, when the threat of frost recedes. In the first days of August, plants of an early ripening variety in the open field are already bearing fruit.
Transplanting
When the sprouts reach the age of 30-35 days, they begin to accustom them to fresh air by placing the pickled tomatoes in the shade. If the seedlings are already hardened, they are transferred to open ground.
- Tomato Boni M is planted in rows with a distance of 50 cm between the holes. 30-40 cm are left in the aisles. 7-9 bushes of this variety grow on one square meter;
- A plot for tomatoes is chosen sunny and open to air currents. The birthplace of tomatoes is South America, so the plant is ready to stay under the rays of the sun all day;
- The soil for tomatoes cannot be fertilized with fresh organic matter, it is better to make it on the eve of the season, in the fall. If such dressings were not carried out, the soil is filled with humus.
Plant Care
Tomatoes planted in a permanent place with an open root system need to be watered frequently for the first week so that the soil is moist. Plants will take root faster. Potted seedlings also require high soil moisture – the containers will decompose faster, and the roots will go beyond them in search of new nutrients.
Fifteen days later, stronger tomatoes are fed with special complex fertilizers along with watering, which is now carried out less often – twice a week. As soon as the soil dries, it is carefully loosened. In dry weather, planting should be mulched.
Boni MM tomato bushes do not stepchild, but you need to cut off the leaves that grow from below. There are recommendations for this process: only one leaf of the plant is removed each day to avoid the stress of mass cutting off. The fruits will thus receive more nutrition. For photosynthesis, the upper leaves are enough for the plant.
Secrets of gardeners
Experienced gardeners have their own interesting tricks to increase the yield of tomatoes and grow them successfully:
- After abundant first watering, the plants lightly spud. This technique allows the seedling to form new roots, which helps to strengthen the young bush;
- Although the bush of this variety is strong, nevertheless during the ripening period, if the brushes abound in fruits, you need to cover the soil well with a thick layer of mulch. Two goals are pursued here: the bed does not dry out; the fruits, even drooping down with an overloaded brush, will remain clean;
- They get a super-early harvest, almost 5-6 days ahead of the agreed time, splitting the stem of the plant. With a sharp knife, the bottom of the trunk is cut lengthwise, then a stick is inserted into the hole, which prevents the stem from growing together. Stress causes the bush to give all its strength to the formation of fruits.
- The size of the fruits is also regulated, cutting off the smallest ones that are at the end of the brush. The classic technique recommends picking brown tomato berries from the first ripening brush so that the fruits on the next ones are larger and more even.
Having once planted powerful and compact tomato bushes of this variety, gardeners usually do not part with them.
