For tomato pruning, home grown, or more practical experience, pruning is generally divided into fork buds, hit the top bud, hit flower buds and so on , the tomato plant, the tomato plant, the tomato plant, the tomato plant, the tomato plant and so on, the tomato plant and so on. I hope to help you, so that you planted more tomato results, the key is to operate easier.
When to prune tomatoes
The time to prune tomato plants, after flowering, usually grow clothes 4 or 5 fruiting branches of the best time to cut the leaves. The sooner you start pruning your tomato plant when it begins to show flowers, the better for its growth.
How to top and prune tomatoes for more fruit
1) Forked buds
Tomatoes germinate relatively quickly and grow fast, and when they reach twenty centimeters, up to a foot or so, they will grow forked.
This time, the tomato leaves probably also have more than ten pieces, the growth is also slowly into the peak season, the fork grows to four or five centimeters, you need to pinch off, pinch off the hand next to the main pole, pay attention not to be too violent, the skin of the main pole to tear to.
Forking, is the entire tomato growth cycle have to do, generally only stay in the main pole, the side branches do not stay, this is called "1" shape, applicable to the common large tomatoes.
There is another kind of tomato after the fork, stay two strong side branches, other forks all pinched off, is "Y" shape plant, suitable for waterfall tomatoes, sundew.
Purpose of forked branches: Forking will consume the nutrients of the tomato, so that the growth of the main branch is weakened, the plant is also because of too much branching, and not robust, and the growth of the later period will also be slow.
Forking Branch Note: Forking must be in sunny days, not rain or dew, lest infected with disease.
②Pick off the first floret
You may have heard of the "door pepper", "door eggplant", in fact, the first string of tomatoes, flowers, can not be left, the reason is the same as peppers, eggplant. Reason:
(1)Tomato first bunch of flowers, easy to deform, quality is not high, especially the natural growth of the temperature is relatively low, the flocculent development time is too long, but also aggravate the problem.
(2)The first bunch of flocculent left, and eggplant, chili, like the seedling is small, on the pups, consume nutrients. But the tomatoes are small, and this will age the tomatoes prematurely, leading to a lack of backbone.
③Topping
Tomatoes grow to sixty centimeters or so, or after the floret grows 5-7, the top buds removed, the purpose of the top mainly has the following two aspects:
(1)Top buds removed, the plant will no longer have the apical dominance, will not be futile. Grow to the right height, pinch off the top bud (the red line at the removal of the top bud)
(2)the remaining main branches, flower buds, fruits, nutrition can be concentrated on them, flower buds are not easy to drop flowers, fruits are also more likely to grow up to accelerate the maturity of the tomato.
④Pick yellow leaves, old leaves, sick leaves
Generally with the growth of tomatoes, the bottom of the leaves will slowly physiological yellow. These yellow leaves are not picked, it is easy to have germs, insects, and yellow leaves are not photosynthesized, there is no use, it can be picked.
But, once can not pick too much, one or two can , the leaves become yellow more than two thirds, can be removed, slightly yellow some of the leaves, do not pick.
Tomato pests and diseases are relatively few, generally have aphids, leaf mold, aphids can spray imidacloprid, leaf mold first remove the diseased leaves, play fungicide. But overall, home grown tomatoes have few pests and diseases.
Tomato pruning precautions
1, tomatoes can not be a long time lack of water, the leaves are thin, lack of water a little too much, the bottom of the leaves yellowing very quickly.
2, tomato expansion period, too much rain, there are conditions to cover the rain, otherwise tomatoes are easy to crack fruit.
3, tomatoes must be weekly thin fertilizer, you can use soybean dregs, eggshells, as a bottom fertilizer, weekly watering with rice water, a month can spray once or twice phosphorus and potassium fertilizer + boron fertilizer, to improve the fruiting rate, quality, sweetness.
4, after the tomato fruit white, the top of the leaf, you can properly remove half, and then more sun, so that tomatoes red fast.
5, tomato planting can not be heavy crop, pests and diseases will be more, lower yield.
6, balcony planting need to pollinate themselves, stamens on the pistil, terrace, ground planted with sealed, without artificial pollination.