Planting a tomato on a seedling is the best way to plant a seed

The way to the sweet smelling sun and wind from a tomato plant from your own garden begins with planting a tomato on the seedlings. Correctly chosen for sowing time, good seed material, nutritious soil and love of plants will become the guarantee of an excellent harvest of tomatoes.

Planting tomato seeds on seedlings

Cultivation of tomato seedlings consists of several stages. Violations on any of them can become if not fatal for the crop, then lead to a significant deterioration. Therefore, it is so important to comply with all the rules for planting tomatoes on seedlings:

1. Selection of seeds. When buying a variety it is worth giving preference to tomatoes, zoned or collected in a locality with similar climatic conditions. From the seed material of your own collection, it is necessary to reject all the substandard, leaving the seeds of the correct form without external damage.
2. Preparation of seeds. Helps to accelerate germination and increase resistance to disease. Includes sorting, disinfection, hardening and bubbling.
3. Soil preparation. Planting tomatoes for seedlings can be produced both in universal seedlings and in soil mixtures of own production. In any case, the soil must be pre-treated: bake in the oven (10-15 minutes, 180-200 ° C) or in the microwave (1-2 minutes, 850 watts). After that, the soil is spilled with a solution of potassium permanganate and left in a warm room for 10-12 days so that the microorganisms necessary for seedling tomato can multiply in the soil.
4. Selection of capacities. To plant the tomato on the seedlings will suit the average depth (about 10 cm) of spacious containers with good drainage.
5. Necessary conditions of detention. In order for the seedlings to develop actively and actively they need to provide them with a high level of humidity, regular watering, good lighting (10-12 hours a day), lighting and temperatures of at least + 16 ° C at night and + 25 ° C in the daytime.

Preparation of tomato seeds for planting on seedlings

To ensure maximum aspiration and increase vitality, treatment of tomato seeds helps before planting on seedlings:

1. Sorting. Sifts small (dried) seeds. In cooked from 1 tbsp. a spoonful of salt and a glass of warm water solution immerse the seeds, leave for 15 minutes, and then remove all floating on the surface. The rest are washed and dried for further use.
2. Disinfection. On the surface of seeds can live pathogens harmful to tomato virus and fungal diseases. Soak off them by soaking in one of the following ways:

• aloe juice;
• strong solution of potassium permanganate;
• a soda solution;
• "Phytosporin".

Planting time for tomato on sprouts

The time for planting a tomato for seedlings is chosen on the basis that they should be in the garden at the age of 45-50 days. Settled in violation of this rule, tomatoes will be less adapted to the open ground and do not yield a full harvest. On average, favorable days for planting tomato seeds fall on:

• 20.02-15.03 for the southern regions;
• 15.03-01.04 for the central regions;
• 01.04-15.04 for the northern regions.

Tomatoes - planting on sprouts, ways

The root system of tomatoes is easy to treat small lesions. This makes it possible to choose how the tomato will be planted for seedlings: classic (in seedlings) with further picking, in cassettes, pots, peat pills and snails. The correct planting of tomato seeds for seedlings in the classical way is done as follows:

1. In the furrows (depth 1 cm), the seeds are laid in steps of 5-7 cm, sprinkled on top with moist soil.
2. The crops are covered with a mini-greenhouse and put in a warm place (+23 ... + 25 ° C).
3. Before the appearance of sprouts, the greenhouse is ventilated every day, and the soil is maintained in a moist (but not wet) state.
4. After 1.5-2 weeks, the shelter is removed, and the seedlings are watered under the root.

Planting a tomato on a seedling in a cochlea

Significantly save space on the windowsill helps planting a tomato in the snail . It is produced as follows:

1. The base (polyethylene film or laminate substrate) is cut into strips 10 cm wide and 1.5 meters long.
2. On top of the base, several layers of toilet paper are laid and moistened thoroughly from the spray gun.
3. Put prepared tomato seeds on paper so that they are 2 cm from one of the edges of the tape and 3-5 cm from each other.
4. The crops are covered with another layer of paper and moisturized.
5. The structure is folded with a roll (cochlea), the bottom of the tape is formed from the bottom edge of the tape (tucked) and placed in a deep container.
6. After the appearance of sprouts, the cochlea is unfolded and a layer of soil is poured over the paper and then returned to its original state.
7. For 10-14 days, the seedlings are broken on individual cups, leaving the weakest seedlings in the cochlea to grow.

Planting tomato on seedlings in peat pills

Growing in a pressed peat substrate protects the roots from damage and facilitates the life of a trucker - there is no need for picking and transplanting. Seedlings migrate into the ground together with the container ( tablet ) in which they grew. Planting a tomato in peat tablets is as follows:

1. In the hole in the center of the tablet (diameter 4-6 cm), one or two grains are laid.
2. The tablet is installed in a drip tray with drainage holes and well moistened.
3. Before the appearance of sprouts, the pallet is placed in a mini-greenhouse (covered with polyethylene or glass).

Planting tomatoes without picks

Get rid of transplantation hassle helps planting tomato seeds without piquing :

1. Individual containers (cassettes, pots) are filled with soil by 1/3.
2. In each container 3-4 grains are laid and sprinkled with a thin layer of earth. On top of the set hothouse-shelter and placed in a warm place.
3. As the growth grows, the weakest seedlings are culled several times (cut off at the root), and the soil is sprinkled, stimulating the development of the roots.

When the tomato seeds are planted after planting?

The time of emergence of tomato seeds after planting is largely determined by the environmental conditions. In a room with a temperature of + 25 ° C this process will take 3-5 days, at + 20 ° C the first growths will appear from the ground on day 7, and the coolness at + 10 ... + 12 ° C will slow the development of seedlings and they will not go through before 12 -15 days. All this time, the soil must be maintained in a moist, but not flooded state.