To receive rich harvest tomato, seeds should be prepared for prorashchivaniye in advance. For this purpose select healthy seeds, carry out their processing, then prepare for disembarkation to the earth.
At tomato the features of growth and fructification, and it is necessary to treat prorashchivaniye of seeds with attention.
Why to couch seeds before disembarkation
Part of gardeners, especially unexperienced, consider that the prorashchivaniye is not especially important and besides takes away a lot of time and forces. But in attempt to sow seeds without pretreatment there is high probability that the harvest will not turn out. At some point seed material will not give shoots or they will turn out weakened, defective.
Here main minuses of crops of the raw sunflower seeds:
- Sprouts appear unevenly.
- It is necessary to wait for the first shoots long.
- Shoots of tomatoes are subject to diseases or appear already weakened.
What procedures should be carried out before prorashchivaniye
Correctly executed prorashchivaniye considerably affects productivity tomato. The amount of the received vegetables increases approximately by third. Processing of seeds will increase resistance of future plants to diseases and will improve conditions for their growth.
It is quite possible to receive strong and healthy seedling which is not infected with infection in house conditions. For processing of seeds for this purpose use such actions as careful selection, soaking, warming up, hardening.
How many will sprout seeds
Time which is required for emergence of sprouts can vary from three to fourteen days. Term is influenced by such factors as climate, temperature conditions, a lot of things depend on air humidity degree.
After landing of dry seeds the emergence of sprouts happens approximately for the tenth day. If to land previously germinated material, full-fledged sprouts can be received approximately for the third or fourth day.
Choosing material for seedling, it is necessary to pay attention to the terms specified on packing. Speed with which shoots appear also depends on freshness of seed material.
Terms of emergence of sprouts in many respects depend on temperature. For acquaintance it is possible to give the following examples:
- At the air temperature of 25-30 degrees the shoots will appear 3-4 days in time.
- At preservation of the same temperature five days later after disembarkation full-fledged sprouts will appear.
- If at air temperature is lowered up to-13 … 19, terms of emergence of sprouts increase to week or more.
- At temperature which does not rise higher than 12-14 degrees the prorashchivaniye goes slowly. It is possible that shoots will appear 10-14 days later, with high probability they will be weakened.
Before carrying out preparation of seeds of tomato for prorashchivaniye, it is recommended to execute check on viability. Process helps to separate empty grains that further all events would be held only with healthy material.
To check seeds for viability, mix 20 ml of water and 30 g of salt. Place tomato sunflower seeds in the received salt solution. Approximately in hour carry out the assessment – healthy will fall by bottom of container with solution, dried and impractical will rise to the surface. After the procedure it is necessary to wash out well planting stock under flowing water.