Not everyone has opportunity and time to be engaged in independent cultivation of seedling of tomatoes. Therefore there is need for its purchase. Going to the market, it is necessary to know how to choose seedling, then it will be possible to buy healthy plants which will provide good harvest of tomatoes.
Instruction
1. Pay attention to availability of leaves at seedling. They should not be too much as it says that at its cultivation the nitrogen fertilizer was added in large number. It reduces productivity of tomatoes and also their resistance to adverse environmental factors. Bushes reckon with 7-8 leaflets as optimum.
2. Seedling of tomatoes has to possess rather thick stalk. Its leaves have to be whole and is moderated green if are observed turned yellow, then refuse purchase as the probability that all bushes will well be accepted on the open ground, not too big. At leaves and stalks there should not be mold, the grown brown sites and any insects. All this speaks about not goodness of plants.
3. Remember that good seedling of tomatoes has subcotyledonous knee at leaves. It has to be short. Branches of plants have to be branched, but not too big. It means that seedling of tomatoes was grown up at temperature, above recommended. Therefore at the slightest frosts she will suffer, there is also high probability of her death.
4. Root system – important parameter when choosing seedling of tomatoes. It has to be branched. Any damages on it are inadmissible. Plants already are very vulnerable and if the root system is deformed, then chances of its successful acceptance in the open ground becomes several times less. Buy only that seedling of tomatoes which has been pulled out by sellers from cartridges recently. Usually that on roots has the humidified soil, and leaflets at it elastic and are a little lifted up.
5. Decide on seedling grade. That which is checked and popular as rare and exotic species of tomatoes are taken usually very badly is better to buy and also demand the increased leaving. Besides, their productivity, as a rule, does not meet expectation.