Small tomato variety Virgin Tomato / Yunu Tomato / Orange Honey Tomato taste, selection skills of small Tomato

There are many varieties of small tomatoes in Taiwan, and there are many different kinds of small tomatoes every winter. Orange honey-scented tomato is one of them. When we choose tomatoes, how can we distinguish between these different varieties of baby tomatoes?

According to the weekend Life page of the Liberty Times, the varieties of baby tomatoes on the market can be roughly divided into the following six types: Virgin, jade girl, fruit, ruby (also known as red girl), Jin Ying, and orange honey. (note 1)

Widely loved by everyone, the most common ones are virgin tomatoes, jade tomatoes, and orange honey.

Virgin tomato: bright red and oblong, sweet in sour, thick skin.

Yunu tomato: thin skin and meticulous meat, higher sweetness than saints, up to 13 degrees.

Orange honey aroma: the fruit is orange and tastes fragrant.

Selection skills

Small tomatoes are mainly round or round in the shape of fruit, and bright red is the best color. The redder it is, the more lycopene it is, and the more yellow it is, the more yellow it is. And tomatoes must have seeds, cut seedless should pay attention to the use of medicine. There is also a test in which the tomatoes bought home are put in water, and the tomatoes that sink indicate that they are high in sugar.

How to grow sweet little tomatoes?

Small tomatoes are planted by frame grafting, mainly by eggplant grafting, because both belong to Solanaceae and are suitable for each other. The ideal soil is sandy soil with deep soil layer and good drainage. The common way is net-room cultivation. The advantage of net-room cultivation is that the fruit can be harvested and listed after full red ripening, and the sugar content of fruit is naturally 1 ∼ 2 degrees higher than that of open-field cultivation.