Pasynkovaniye of tomatoes – one of necessary stages of care for culture. Along with waterings, fertilizing and weedings it should pay special attention.
Regular holding the looking after actions will help to provide good harvest. Carrying out pasynkovaniye in compliance to rules, it is possible to provide to plant good conditions for development.
Why the procedure of pasynkovaniye is necessary
Stepsons call the side escapes growing from bosoms of leaves. They are not of any value, but can damage to fructification. The growing stepsons take away nutrients which the tomato bush could direct to formation of fruits. In the southern areas at cultivation of this culture pasynkovany it is possible not to carry out as fruits manage to ripen. The plodoobrazovaniye needs to be helped with northern regions.
Advantages of pasynkovaniye of tomatoes:
- After elimination of zagushcheniye the bushes are better aired, action of sunshine is more effective.
- The risk of diseases which not rarity at big thickness decreases.
- The productivity increases.
Without pasynkovaniye of tomatoes it is formed a little, not everyone ripens. That tomatoes have turned out ripe, hard, with good tastes, a lot of time and forces which the bush will spend for development of unnecessary sprouts is required.
When it is possible to carry out pasynkovaniye tomato
It is necessary to carry out pasynkovaniye of plants while sprouts are small – strengthened to remove more difficult, it is possible to put serious trauma to plant. It is possible to start action already in couple of days after planting of tomatoes to the constant place in kitchen garden. Continue it before the end of harvesting with frequency approximately once a week.
How to carry out pasynkovaniye of tomatoes
For the tomatoes which are grown up in soil and in the greenhouse, way of pasynkovaniye same.
Before elimination of unnecessary sprouts attentively examine them. It is not necessary to remove brushes with ovaries of flowers – tomatoes will grow from them. Flower brushes differ from stepsons in lack of leaves, they grow on branch of bush or on its trunk. Stepsons settle down between branch and trunk.
It is possible to delete the stepson with hands or by means of carefully disinfected scissors. There has to be stump no more than a centimeter long. Deleting the stepson together with stump, it is possible to provoke growth of new escapes.
Plants of tomatoes are indeterminantny and determinant. The first – tall also need regular thinning. Determinant undersized grades do not need pasynkovaniye, but forming to bush will not damage. If the plant is formed in 2-3 stalks, leave one or two sprouts from below, and all top delete.
In due time performing the procedure of pasynkovaniye, it is possible to increase considerably quality of fruits and their quantity. The danger of diseases of fungus decreases. Using competent instructions, even the beginning gardener will be able to make the looking after procedure without problems.