To obtain a good harvest of tomatoes, manyTruck farmers use such a method as pasynkovanie or, as they are called, the formation of a tomato shrub. What does this concept include? Biology of the plant implies that in the axillary of each leaf in tomatoes appears a stepson - an additional escape. If they are not removed, the vegetable marketer eventually becomes the owner of a huge plant with a large mass of green leaves, and there will be few brushes and tied fruit.
However, there is subtlety:different bushes need to be differently pasynkovat. When you buy seeds, it is often written on their packaging whether the variety is indeterminate or determinant. What is the difference between these two species?
Indeterminant tomato is a plant withunlimited growth. It usually grows up to 2 meters or more in height. The determinant tomato grows to a certain height, on average 50-70 cm, it happens even lower.
Formation of a tomato shrub of indeterminate anddeterminant varieties occur in different ways. An indeterminate plant needs to be formed in such a way that only one main stem remains. To do this, it will have to remove all stepsons.
On the packaging with seeds of the determinant tomatosometimes they also write "unpatched", thereby misleading people. Of course, such tomatoes forming a bush will also be perceived positively. But the stepson needs to be removed not all. The determinant plant is formed into two or three stems. It is necessary, in addition to the central stem, to leave one or two lower stepchildren (the first under the flower brush, the second one - the strongest of the remaining ones), from which the lateral stems will subsequently form.
The stepsons are removed as soon as they reach 7-10cm in length. They need to be broken with thumb and forefinger. And it is to break, and not cut with a knife or scissors. To pull out and pull out also it is impossible - after such пасынкования the plant receives long not healing wound, open for a fungoid infection. In general, the wounds from pasynkovaniya remain in any case. To make them heal faster, the formation of a tomato shrub should be done on a clear, sunny morning.
After breaking the stepchild, in his place, you need to leave a small stump 1-2 cm high. If you do not do this and break the escape completely, the stepson will again begin to form from the same place.
When a gardener adopts the formation of a bushtomato, he must clearly distinguish between a stepson and a flower shoot. Some unknowingly break out flower instead of young shoots, thereby, naturally, reducing the yield of tomatoes. Although there is a significant and well-marked difference between them. A stepchild always has leaves, even when he is still quite small. There is not a single leaf on the flower brush.
Besides pasynkovaniya, the formation of a bush of tomatoes in the greenhouse also includes pinching, i.e. Remove the growth point on saved shoots. This is done in the first half of August.
Good prophylaxis against fungal diseasestomatoes will also remove their lowest leaves, touching the ground. So it is necessary to do with all the leaves growing on the stem in the "30-centimeter zone" starting from the ground surface.
An ideally formed tomato shrub has 5-6fruit brushes and 30-35 leaves. Then the nutrients will go not to the development of stepchildren, but to the formation of fruits and their filling. Tomatoes and sizes are more, and ripen earlier.
