The most frequent question that bothers novice gardeners when growing tomatoes in the greenhouse - a long ripening tomatoes first. But you can speed up the process by simple techniques.
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Why not ripen
The peculiarity of tomato plants is that the second and subsequent brush will ripen only after fully formed and ripen first fruits.
Experienced gardeners remove the tomatoes from the first brush immature, leaving 1 copy at the nicest bushes if needed seeds. All the nutrients that took away the lower brush, move to other levels, and tomatoes are beginning to ripen on the vines.
Farming equipment tomatoes involves the removal of the lower leaves and the collection of unripe tomatoes. For tall hothouse varieties that give the crop during the season. This measure not only helps to increase the impact of mature products in the mass collection time. Removal of the excess green below the next planting brush makes more permeable to air and sun. This protects the stems from settling on them fungi that cause Fusarium head blight and.
When growing tall varieties in the open field to speed up the ripening of fruits in the second half of summer shrubs will help limit the growth in height:
- tomatoes, with unlimited growth (indeterminate) pinch out over the last brush in the early to mid-August, stopping the growth of the whip;
- at the bottom of the bush remove all excess leaves to the level of 1/3 of the height tied with plants.
All the nutrients that the plant receives are forwarded to the growth and development of already formed at this point of the ovaries. In central Russia in this period begin nocturnal cooling, and brush that will bloom after mid-August, will not have time to give the fruits. To the last brush received sweeteners, and above it is necessary to leave the 3-4 well-developed leaves.
Determinate tomatoes pinch is not necessary. These varieties are self-stunted after the formation of 3-5 hands on each stem.
As dozarivat collected tomatoes
When the tomatoes are removed underripe, they have to dozarivat indoors. That the process was right and tomatoes preserved the flavor and vitamins, you need to follow some rules:
- Removed from the bush is only fully formed fruit. They have a size and weight that are typical for the selected class. Distinguish ready to collect the fruits can be on a smooth and shiny skin. Underripe (dairy) tomatoes look dull, often covered with fuzz. To ripened tomatoes at home, collecting only large and bright fruit, and matte should be left on the brush for another 2-3 days.
- Dozarivat tomatoes after harvesting possible and on a sunny window, and in a cool pantry. At + 20... + 25 ° C, collected tomatoes begin to be painted after 2-3 days after collection. To accelerate the beginning of ripening by placing the ripe or ripening (brown) in tomato fruit with green box. To ethylene, which is recovered during the ripening of fruits is not volatilized and others facilitated ripening of tomatoes, the box can be covered with paper, cardboard or lutrasila.
- In cold seasons with the abundance of tomatoes rains in central Russia have to collect immature. Prevent rot and to provide help to maturing tomatoes bath with potassium permanganate (pink solution, stand and dry for 10-15 minutes). On ripening lay in boxes in 1-2 layers.
If there is ripening on the windowsill, it is necessary to cover the box from direct sunlight: heat cause severe burns and damage to the product.
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