How to properly patronize tomatoes, few know, and some do not even know what a stepson and confused pasynkovanie with a partial removal of tomato leaves.
How to patronize tomatoes and why is it needed?
Pasyning is an extremely important technique for the successful cultivation of tomatoes, especially tall ones. Tall tomatoes have some advantages over stunted ones: they are more productive, with the correct agrotechnics less affected by phytophthora and have a long fruiting period.
Many vacationers are interested in the question: is it necessary to go in for pamphlet? The answer is categorical - yes! Some naively hope to increase the yield with a large green mass. But if your goal is harvest, rather than landscaping the site, then stepchild. Here, nutrition and illumination are crucial, so you need to know how to patronize tomatoes and not to thicken the planting. After all, the plant can fully bear fruit only with full illumination.
It should also be remembered that the total mass of tomatoes from the bush practically does not increase with the increase in the number of fruits. That is, you can get or many small, or few large tomatoes. Choose yourself.
There is another nuance. Before you decide to go in for pampering tomatoes in the greenhouse, remember that in the case of a large number of fruit on the bush (without pasynkovaniya) strongly delayed their maturation. Why some do not wait for a well-ripe harvest. It is also important that in the thickened bush the most favorable conditions are created for late blight, a malignant disease of Solanaceae. The bush should be well ventilated or no treatments will save the harvest.
Varieties of tomatoes that do not require pasynkovaniya
Determinant varieties, or those that grow not very high, do not require pasynkovaniya. The height of such shrubs rarely reaches half a meter and they usually do not branch very much. Low-grown varieties are suitable for those people who do not have much time to work in the garden. Such compact and curly tomato bushes will become an ornament of your greenhouse or garden.
Correct pasynkovanie tomatoes
Correct pasynkovanie is the breaking off of unnecessary lateral shoots, which grow from the sinuses of the leaves. In order not to confuse a stepchild with leaves, you should carefully look at the bush. Stephens on the bare stalk do not grow. First the leaf grows, and from his sinus (between the stem and the leaf) appears the stepson, which continues to develop. On it there appear stepsons of the second order, and the bush of a tomato starts to branch.
So what to break out on the bush, and what to leave? It all depends on how many stems you want to bush. Tall tomatoes are better to lead to 1-3 stems, but no more. To make the bushes in
The stepsons are not plucked out, they are not pulled out, but they break out. At the same time, there remains a 1-2 cm stump, which slows down the appearance of a new stepson here. It is better not to let the stepson grow too much, because the plant spends a lot of energy and nutrition on it.