Good afternoon, my reader. Tomatoes begin to bloom in early summer. During this period, they need care and feeding, as well as treatment from parasites and prevention of diseases.
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Another important procedure that must be carried out is the removal of excess shoots and stepsons.
It is necessary to trim stepchildren and form a bush several times per season. It is very important not to forget about the inspection of the brush with flowers in order to identify the wrong inflorescences.
If this is not done, then one unpleasant phenomenon can be missed, which subsequently will lead to the fact that the fruits will develop poorly and have a small mass.
What is the wrong tomato brush
A correctly formed tomato brush ends with a flower. If the brush develops in such a way that, instead of a flower, an shoot with leaves appears at the end, then this is called overgrowth.
Tomatoes can develop on such irregular brushes, but this process will be slow, as the shoot will take away all their strength and nutrients. To prevent this, you need to remove such an escape as soon as possible.
Why is this happening
Why does this happen, and unnecessary sprouts appear on the flower brushes? Is this a sign of plant disease?
Overgrowth is often a signal that the plant is fattening. Fatting is an increased growth of tops due to an overabundance of nutrients. But not always extra shoots on inflorescences appear only for this reason. Such malformed clusters in tomatoes can be found on normal tomato bushes. Basically, the phenomenon is observed in hybrids and in indeterminate plants with a long brush.
How to properly crop a flower brush
If you find a hand that is not developing properly, then there is no reason to panic. All this can be easily corrected without any consequences for the plant.
The excess sprout on the flower brush should be cut off with scissors immediately after the outermost flower. After that, the plant will direct all its forces to the development of fruits, and not to an extra shoot, and thus the ripening rate will increase, and the tomatoes themselves will turn out to be larger.
Exactly the same actions are carried out with tomatoes without fail if extra shoots and stepsons appear. They should also be removed as soon as they are found. It is impossible to hesitate with this, since every day an unnecessary shoot takes on more and more nutrients. The faster they are removed, the more likely you are to get a full harvest.
conclusions
Inspect tomatoes, in particular inflorescences, in a timely manner to identify overgrowth. In time, the removed excess shoot on the inflorescence brush will not have time to harm the future harvest.
Do you know what to remove from tomatoes before fruiting?
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