Removal of stepsons on tomatoes integral part in agrotechnology of this plant. Not cut off stepsons thicken with the foliage tomato krone, take away nutrients from ovaries owing to what fruits grow small, and ripen 2-3 weeks later.
It is required to you
- - gloves;
- - garden tools.
Instruction
1. Begin to delete stepsons in 3 weeks after landing of tomatoes in soil or the greenhouse. If you want to receive smaller tomatoes, leave two earliest stepsons and in 20-25 days you will be able to collect from them the first fruits. At such way of cultivation you carry out fertilizing of plant more often, providing it with nutrients in enough. In order that tomatoes have ripened earlier and were larger, delete everything stepsons on plant.
2. Delete stepsons at once as soon as they appear, without allowing them to grow and take away the nutrients necessary to ovaries and fruits. It is the best of all to delete stepsons 2-3 cm long, so you do the smallest harm to the main plant.
3. Break out stepsons one movement, holding the main plant with free hand. Leave small stump from the stepson. It will allow to avoid recurrence of their growth from the same bosom. Do not pull for the stepson, pulling out him from plant, it can damage trunk or root system. Do not use knife or scissors for pasynkovaniye. At scrap the remained stump often dries, and the stepson appears on the same place. Also at scrap there can be rotting of stump, then under the threat there is all plant of tomato.
4. You make removal in dry sunny weather that the remained stumps dried up at once and wounds on them dragged on quicker. It will help to avoid infection with diseases and big loss of juice with plants. Check presence of new stepsons each 6-7 days. Delete them right after detection without allowing to grow.
5. At cultivation of tomatoes in two trunks, leave the very first stepson and you prishchipnit top of the main plant. At achievement of length of 20-25 cm by the stepson, also you prishchipnit its upper part.