Growing tomato seedlings: Part 2

Cultivation of tomato seedlings: first shoots

Already A few days after sowing seeds, you will have the first shoots. At this time, you should remove it from yourwhich grows seedlings, film and put it in a well-lit place. To grow tomato seedlings it is very important to maintain the correct temperature regime. In the first week the temperature should be kept within 14-17 ° С. At night, it is necessary to lower the temperature to 10 ° C. In order for your seedling to develop properly, it needs a 14-hour light day. When necessary, the illumination should be carried out. Further, the temperature should be increased and maintained in the range of 20-25 ° C.

Growing tomato seedlings: diving

Diving tomatoes seedlings should be carried out when they appear 2-3 real leaflets. But this rule can not always be applied. So, if you have enough weak and thin plants, you should wait with a dive, until they appear on 3-4 regular leaflets. If you have good plants with a thickened base at the base, then they can be dived.

During the dive, it is very important to respect some rules:

• tear off only 1/3 of the main spine


• never take a plant for a stem, but only for leaves or an earthen lump around the root


• it is advisable to work in gloves, so that the plant does not have a shock from the temperature drop due to your touch

Pikirovannye plants are transplanted into small cups. Each cup should have a drainageA hole so that the water in it does not stagnate. Note, if your seedlings are too much stretched, then it should be slightly damped when planting. The stalk of the plant is half submerged in the pit and covered with earth. But make sure that the cotyledon leaves remain above the surface. You can also make grooves in the cups, in which the seedlings are laid, and the top is covered with earth. Make sure that all leaves, including cotyledonous, are not covered. Cover the seedlings with transparent glasses. In a couple of days, when the seedlings are raised, they can be removed.

After the dive, the first 3 days seedlings of tomatoes are kept at a temperature of 20-22 ° C. At night, a decrease in temperature is required. But as soon as the tomatoes get accustomed, the daytime temperature is reduced to 18-20 ° C, and the night temperature is reduced to 15-16 ° C.

Sprinkled diving sprouts 1-2 times a week until the soil is completely soaked. In the future, the number of watering can be reduced to 1 time per week.

Growing seedlings of tomatoes: top dressing

The first fertilizing of tomato seedlings should occur 10-14 days after diving. You can feed ready-made complex fertilizers. But you can also prepare your own mixture. For 10 liters of water, take 35 g of superphosphate, 4 g of urea and 12 g of potassium sulfate.

After 20-22 days after diving, it should be transplant into large glasses, where she will grow until her landing in the openpriming. It is undesirable to dive the plants immediately in large glasses, because they are difficult to maintain the normal moisture of the earth. 2 weeks after transplanting tomato seedlings into large glasses, it is once again fed with fertilizers.

Combine each fertilizer with irrigation. Also, do not forget to loosen the ground after the feeding.

Cultivation of tomato seedlings: hardening and disembarkation

Your seedlings are almost ready for planting. It should have a good saturated green color. 15 days before landing, it begins to be tempered. For this, on warm days, when the air temperature is above 12 ° C, it is exposed to fresh air for 2-3 hours in the first 2-3 days. Then you can leave tomato seedlings in the air for a whole day. As a result of hardening tomato seedlings should acquire a purple hue. It is also very important that the soil is sufficiently moist when hardened, otherwise the plants may fade.

The last question remains: when to plant tomato seedlings? Seedlings are planted in late May and early June. At this time, your seedlings must already reachheight 25-35 cm. Each plant will have 8-12 well developed leaves. Also, sometimes you can see well-formed inflorescences. In order to preserve these inflorescences, they are sprayed with boric solution (1 g of boric acid per 1 liter of water) 4-5 days before planting the plants in the open ground. Spray plants should only be in cloudy weather, so that on the leaves of plants there are no burns.