It is pleasant to observe how the tomato bush gains strength, becomes strong and gains saturated green color. However sometimes against the background of visible wellbeing the leaflets begin to be twisted, and on flower brush fruits are not tied. Gardeners call such condition of plant ""greasing"".
If tomatoes are ""fattened"" - have constantly twisted leaves, reinforced stalks, there is fast increase of stepsons and leaves of dark green color, then from such plant of harvest it is necessary to wait long. Therefore it is necessary to take measures for rescue of future harvest in time, having defined the reasons which cause ""greasing"".
Why tomatoes are ""fattened""?
- Most often overfeeding of plant is nitrogen fertilizers the reason of ""greasing"" of tomatoes therefore plants increase green material to the detriment of plodoobrazovaniye.
- Frequent watering in the first 2-3 weeks after landing can do much harm to forming of root system, promoting its superficial growth. It reduces resistance of tomatoes to external conditions.
- The excess of manure and frequent fertilizing during vegetation can become the reason of ""greasing"". Tomatoes it is better to underfeed, than to overfeed.
- The strengthened growth of bush causes also frequent watering during the entire period of vegetation since it provokes excess air humidity.
- Too push fit of plants and, as a result, lack of illumination can be one of factors.
What should I do?
- To improve situation, tomatoes should be put ""into diet"": to stop watering for 7-10 days. If weather cool, then it is necessary to close in the greenhouse doors and window leaves to create inside temperature in the afternoon to +25 degrees, at night - up to +22. At hot weather the greenhouse, on the contrary, should be opened, possibly even to remove frames or to lift film if the greenhouse film. In addition to carry out pollination by potryakhivaniye of plants.
- To slow down growth of plants, it is necessary to feed up them superphosphate - 2-3 tablespoons on 10 liters of water. To water under bush on 1 liter of solution. The same structure can be made extra root fertilizing.
- Sometimes it is possible to stop greasing removal of two-three large lower leaves. But it is necessary to remove from one plant no more than one leaf in 2-3 days.
- If on tops of flower brushes at the time of infructescence the new escape begins to grow, it is necessary to make nipping, having left no more than 5-7 fruits.
- 5-6 brushes are the best of all to do the first potash fertilizing after zatsvetaniye, nitrogen fertilizers during growth are completely excluded. It is useful to do extra root fertilizing by solution of magnesium and other microelements necessary for plant.