Growing tomatoes: how to feed a vegetable during flowering?
Novice vegetable growers have many questions about caring for tomatoes, including how to feed tomatoes during flowering. And those who have been growing these vegetables for several years are interested in learning something new. Useful information will help you get the best harvest on your plots.
Novice vegetable growers have many questions about caring for tomatoes, including how to feed tomatoes during flowering
Tomatoes during flowering, like in any other period, need three nutrients. These are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. These trace elements are essential for the growth and development of tomatoes.
You can understand that the plant lacks nitrogen by the state of the leaves - they turn yellow. Yellowing begins from the lower leaves and gradually rises to the upper ones.
If the leaves begin to turn purple, then there may be a lack of phosphorus. But before adding this element to the soil, you need to make sure that the tomatoes are not cold, as the leaves can turn purple from the cold.
The lack of potassium is manifested by the fact that the leaves change their color to a lighter one, and they brighten from the tip. Gradually, the color changes to brown, and then the leaves dry up. If you do not feed the tomatoes on time, during the flowering period, and then at the time of ripening, then the fruits will grow sour, and their middle will not ripen.
During the flowering period, the bushes can be sprayed with a solution of water with one of the following substances:
- urea;
- boric acid;
- vinegar;
- saltpeter;
- serum.
The solution is prepared from 10 liters of water and 1 tbsp. l. any of these fertilizers.
Spraying during the flowering period promotes better ovary formation, which subsequently leads to more fruit.
For spraying, it is necessary to choose the evening hours, when the heat has already subsided. You can also spend it on cloudy days. And if this is done during the hours when the sun is shining, then you can get burns on the leaves from its rays. And the liquid evaporates too quickly in the heat, and the plant does not receive the required amount of nutrients.
Tomatoes during flowering, like in any other period, need three nutrients. These are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus
Top dressing of tomatoes during flowering is carried out by the irrigation method. And this should be done at a time when the sun is no longer shining, that is, in the evenings or in cloudy weather. If you water tomatoes in the heat, the moisture evaporates from the soil too quickly, and the solution that gets on the leaves can burn them.
You can feed the plants with a mixture of 20 g of any phosphorus fertilizer, 15 g of potassium salt, 12 g of nitrate. This amount is enough for 1 m² of plantings. The mixture is applied between the bushes of flowering tomatoes.
In garden stores, you can also purchase ready-made fertilizer compositions intended for feeding flowering fertilizers.
Top dressing of tomatoes during flowering (video)
How to feed flowering tomatoes grown in greenhouse conditions?
Feeding greenhouse tomatoes requires caution. This is especially true for fertilizers containing nitrogen. Their dosage should be approached especially carefully. When applying fertilizers in liquid form, it is necessary to monitor the temperature of the solution. The water should be warm for him. Tomato roots suffer from temperature extremes.
Heteroauxin is used to stimulate growth and better formation of ovaries. It is diluted in water at the rate of 20 g per 1 liter. All brushes of flowering tomatoes are sprayed with the prepared solution. This helps to grow fruits that are high in vitamin C and sugar.
The flowering of tomatoes is the period when you can feed the plants with organic fertilizers. Before using chicken manure or cow dung, it is necessary to water the plants in advance, that is, if fertilizing is planned in the evening, then in the morning the bushes must be well watered.
Mullein is the best fertilizer for tomatoes. A solution for feeding a flowering vegetable is prepared as follows:
- dissolve 1 liter of manure in 10 liters of water;
- add 0.5 cups of wood ash and 1.5 tbsp. l. superphosphate;
- apply the prepared fertilizer under each bush at the rate of 0.5 liters per plant.
A solution of chicken manure is prepared as follows:
- Pour dry droppings into a bucket by about 1/3 of the volume;
- pour water to the edge of the bucket;
- insist 1 week;
- for watering, dilute 1 liter of the prepared infusion in 1 bucket of water, adding about 1 liter of solution under each bush.
Growing tomatoes at the beginning of flowering (video)
What else can you feed flowering tomatoes?
Wood ash is an excellent top dressing for flowering tomatoes. It is introduced into the grooves, which should be made along the beds with planted bushes at a distance of 10-15 cm. The introduced ash is sprinkled with earth, and then watered with water.
You can use not one ash, but a mixture of several fertilizers. To prepare it, you will need 10 liters of water, 1 liter of wood ash, 10 g of boric acid, a small bottle of iodine. All components are mixed and infused for a day. Under one bush of flowering vegetables, 1 liter of the prepared mixture is poured.
To the question of how to feed tomatoes during the flowering period, the answer may also be this - with yeast. The composition is prepared from 100 g of live yeast, 10 liters of water, 2 tbsp. l. Sahara. Everything is mixed and infused for a day or more. Tomato bushes are poured with the prepared mixture, diluted with water at the rate of 1 glass of starter culture per 10 liters of water.
Top dressing of tomatoes during flowering is carried out by the irrigation method
Even weeds will help in feeding tomatoes. The nutrient mixture is prepared in a barrel. 5 kg of any grass (it can be both nettle and lawn) should be finely chopped and put into a barrel. Add 10 liters of manure, 1 glass of wood ash. Pour about 5 buckets of water into the barrel and stir everything. Let the mixture brew for 2 weeks, but be sure to stir it at least once a day. Then add the same amount of water. Water the tomatoes with the prepared composition - about 2 liters for each bush.
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