Outdoor planting of tomatoes is necessary to increase productivity. Cutting off the side shoots, the gardener does not allow the bush to spend energy on growing greenery, thereby strengthening the ovary and reducing the number of unnecessary fruits. Since strictly limited time is allotted for seedling growth, as well as fruit ripening, gardeners have to make every effort to get a decent harvest. Depending on climatic conditions, the cultivation of vegetables takes about six months. Cold spring and early frosts do not contribute to unhindered fruiting.
Proper pinching of a tomato allows you to limit flowering, thin out the bush, direct all your efforts to the growth and ripening of the main fruits. If you do nothing, then the plants will become very dense, many lateral shoots will grow on them, which will give an ovary. As a result, there will be many fruits, but they will be small. In addition, it will not be possible to harvest the crop on time, because the tomatoes will not have time to ripen. You can’t even wait for the fruits, because the thickened plantings do not let in enough light and are poorly ventilated, causing various diseases, including rot.
The pinching of
tomatoes in the open field brightens the bush, so that all the fruits get sunlight, which accelerates their ripening. Stepsons grow above the leaves from the leaf sinuses, they need to be pinched, leaving a stump about the size of a centimeter to avoid the growth of a new shoot. Before dealing with the processing of bushes, it is necessary to determine the
variety of tomatoes and the type of growth, it can be indeterminate or deterministic. The second stepsons do not need to, because each shoot is punctuated, and such tomatoes grow only until a certain point. The pinching of tomatoes in the open field is necessary for indeterminate varieties, since they grow all summer.
It is not always necessary to form a bush in one trunk; to be safe, you should leave three stepson. If a strong wind tilted the tomatoes, then you should not rush to tie them to the pegs. If the space on the site allows, then you can arrange the plant horizontally on the ground. After some time, roots will appear on the trunk, and stepsons will go up. In this form, they practically do not interfere with each other, the competition for nutrients is small, and the light passes perfectly and gets to the fruits.
The pinching of tomatoes in the open ground must be applied to tall varieties. In such tomatoes, first of all, you need to remove the lower shoots, since they get the least light, which means that there is little chance of getting a crop. Under the first flower tassels, two or three stepson should be left, but no more. If it is necessary to increase the number of seedlings, then this can be done with the help of side shoots, they take root perfectly. To do this, you need to pinch tomatoes (a photo will help to understand the process itself), torn shoots should be put into water. Roots will appear in a couple of days, and after a week you can plant them in open ground.