If you buy seedlings in the market, you can not wait for the harvest, if it was grown without the rules of farming, or do not get those varieties which wanted. Try to grow a seedling of the best-known varieties and gather a rich harvest. About how to properly grow tomato seedlings at home, read a detailed description of the article.
Terms of sowing seeds
Terms planting tomato seedlings should be selected for the annotation to the selected class or hybrid. To gather the harvest in mid-July, will require large-fruited tomatoes grow tall 150 days, hence they need to sow in February to the middle of May to plant in a greenhouse.
For maturing and small-fruited varieties of seedlings are planted in greenhouses in late May, in an open place at the beginning of the second decade. To do this, suitable seedlings sown in late March.
Ground mix
Soil mixture prepared a week before planting - a turf ground, humus and peat, taken in equal proportions. Stir the mixture, after adding a bucket of the mixture of ash wood 1 tbsp. l., and a teaspoon of superphosphate and potassium sulfate.
You can prepare a mixture of "Violets" and turf ground, taken in equal proportions, or of equal parts of peat soil-ground "Mikroparnik" and sod land. The best option would be ready Soils "Live Earth" - this soil fertilizer is added. The soil should be moist.
Seed Treatment
Hybrid tomato seeds sown dry. For amicable shoots of non-hybrid tomato seed treatment against the virus, and for their food needed to conduct pre-sowing seed treatment. In a glass of water diluted with a few crystals of potassium permanganate to the water acquired a dark cherry color.
Seeds are laying in a bag made of fabric, which is then immersed for 20 minutes in the prepared solution. Thereafter, the seeds were washed with water (pouches) and soak them, without removing the pouch, dipping for 12 hours in a nutrient solution.
A solution of a liter of water with a temperature of 25 ° C (put in a warm place near the battery). The water needed to dissolve something one of the following nutrients:
ash wood 1 tbsp. L .;
1 h. L. NPK;
fertilizer "ideal" (liquid) - 1 tbsp. L .;
powdered sodium humate - fourth of a teaspoon (golden color of the solution).
After impregnating the seeds with a nutrient solution, put them on day in clean water with a temperature of 25C. Then the seeds need to be tempered - place in the refrigerator at 1-2 ° C for a day, taking care to not dry bags.
Sowing seeds
On the day of planting boxes (boxes) in height 7-8 cm soil mixture prepared to sleep, a little compacting it. For each class, it is desirable to allocate a separate box. Watered soil warm solution of sodium humate (beer color) made in the ground at a depth of 1 to 5 cm distance from each other by 5 cm.
Expanding a notch chilled seeds 2 cm, poured the same ground. Put boxes on the stand in the light and warm place where the air is warmed to a temperature of at least 22 ° C and maximum 24 ° C. For the week to appear shoots.
Temperature conditions within a month after the inputs - the day 18-20 ° C night 15 ° C. During this time, 2-3 times a little watered seedlings defended water at 20 ° C, being careful not to get water on the leaves. Boxes turn every day to the other side of the window.
Dive seedlings
Seedlings from these three leaflets are seated (dive) in pots with sizes 8 x 8, where they will grow for three weeks. Do not bury cotyledon leaves into the soil. Watering moderate - once a week during the drying of the soil.
Fertilizing seedlings
After 12 days of dive Feed the seedlings (10 liters of water dissolve 1 tablespoon nitrophosphate. L.). After one week of transplant in pots measuring 15 x 15.
A second feeding is carried out after 12 days with nutrient solution: 10 liters of water dissolve 1 tbsp ashes and superphosphate, pouring a glass of solution for every plant. Passing 12 days, again Feed the watering solution (granular fertilizer "Bogatyr" - 1 tbsp. L., Diluted in a bucket of water). Pour the soil if it is settled in pots.
Hardening seedlings
Begin hardening seedlings in late April - in May at the open window day and night, or bring to the balcony, where the seedlings are gradually leaving for the day and night, covering lutrasilom.
Well-hardened seedlings have a bluish tint. If the air temperature drops to 8 ° C -, store the plant inside. When hardening the soil should be kept moist. Before planting a permanent place for 2 days to remove the need for 2 of these lower leaf, leaving the hemp 2 cm, to avoid damaging the main stem.
Using these tips, it is important to do the right thing and grow good and seasoned tomato seedlings, which will give a great harvest.
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