Tomato pinching technology

The quality of tomato fruits and their ripening speed depends on how correctly and in what time the pinching of the tomatoes was carried out. Experienced summer residents to the question whether to pinch tomatoes, give a definite positive answer, because this procedure, along with pinching, affects the taste of vegetables.

Content
  1. Pinch target
  2. Basic rules
  3. Formation technology
  4. Time
  5. In open environment
  6. In greenhouse conditions
  7. Conclusion <

Tatyana Orlova (Candidate of Agricultural Sciences):

Pinching (carving of tomatoes) is aimed at shortening the growth period of the vegetative part of tomato plants and redirecting nutrients to ripening plos On the one hand, this procedure reduces the potential yield of the bush, but allows ripening fruit to ripen.In the southern regions of the country, it is carried out only on indeterminate varieties (with unlimited growth) to stop growth at a certain height so that tomato plants do not touch the leaves of the greenhouse roof surface. Determinant (bush) tomatoes are only made in cold regions.

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Tomato pinching technology

The purpose of pinching

Pinching tomatoes is the procedure for cutting off the top of a tomato plant. Pinching cultivated tomatoes means removing growth points.

The purpose of pinching tomatoes is:

  • improving the quality characteristics of the tomato fruit crop,
  • reducing the ripening period of vegetables and increasing the length of the stage of fruiting,
  • improving the quality of the plant’s mineral nutrition and achieving good illumination.
  • reducing the number of deformed low-quality fruits, since pinching acts as a means of inhibiting growth and redirecting the main forces to the formation of vegetables.

    For tall varieties removal of ve rhushki bush is carried out without fail.

The nipping procedure can lead to early withering, and also cause complete death of the vegetable crop if you do not know how to pinch the tomatoes.

Tatyana Orlova (Ph.D. S.-kh. Sciences):

All green operations (pinching, pinching, debris) should be carried out with clean hands or a tool, because viral and mycoplasma diseases can be transmitted with plant juice.

General rules

How to pinch tomatoes properly? It is required to do this carefully so that each action is performed provided that the vegetable is preserved in nutrition.Growth points are removed using agricultural secateurs, which cut off the very top of the tomato stem, leaving 2 leaves above the last tomato brush with the fruit ovary already on it.

Pinching in tall tomatoes is often done with no more than 7 -8 tomato brushes with formed ovaries. If you remove them in excess, the tomato bush will weaken and fade, the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the crop will decrease.

The procedure can be performed early in the morning or in the evening. This will allow the wound formed after removal to drag on. Also, for quick healing after pinching, the wound is sprinkled with ash powder or ash.

Formation technology

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There are several ways to maintain a tomato culture

How to form tomatoes properly? There are several ways:

  • The formation of a tomato plant is carried out in one stalk; the technology involves pinching throughout the summer season.
  • Formation of a plant in two stems in a greenhouse or in open ground. With this cultivation, together with the main stem, they leave at the top the last escape, the stepson. This method gives a higher yield, but slows down the ripening of vegetables, which in some cases do not have time to ripen before the onset of frost.The technology is not recommended for late-ripening varieties.
  • Formation in 3 stems. According to this method, the 2 most powerful stepson processes remain. This technology of tomato formation is suitable for the cultivation of early ripe varieties that have time to ripen in the established biological periods.

Time

The time when summer residents are going to pinch tomatoes usually falls on the last days of July or on the first days of August. The procedure is recommended to be carried out regularly, from the first days of the stage of active development of vegetable culture.

Removing growth points at the stage of germination of tomato seedlings and pinching young tomatoes directly on the windowsill makes it possible to get thick greens on seedlings and an impetus to the development of the root system of a young seedling.

There is a difference in the dates in the greenhouse and in the open soil.

In open conditions

Pinch the growth points on the tops of the tomato stems when growing vegetables of cultures s in the open ground is recommended one month before the stage of complete biological ripening of tomatoes. The deadline is between the last days of July and mid-August.

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In greenhouse conditions

When growing tomatoes in the greenhouse, pinching is done later, the reason for this is the ripening time of the vegetables. Typically, removal of tomato growth points in the greenhouse falls on September-October, in some cases is delayed until November.

Conclusion

Now you know how to pinch tomatoes and why it is necessary. All recommendations must be followed for the procedure to succeed.

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