What are the benefits of picking leaves from the latest tomatoes

One of the tasks in tomato cultivation management is to pick leaves. Why do you pick leaves? Will picking leaves affect growth? What are the benefits of picking leaves for plant growth? What are the principles of leaf picking and how should leaf picking be beneficial to growth? Let's learn the correct way to pick leaves together.

1. Leaf picking method

The first time to pick leaves in the point of the second ear flower, remove all the old leaves. Leave a functional leaf under the first ear flower, and then remove all other leaves. The second time plucking leaves, when the fourth ear flower is selected to the fifth ear flower, part of the leaves should be plucked. Specifically, most of the leaves below the three ears are removed, leaving petioles and leaflets to avoid and help heal. After the plant is picked, the leaves are picked for the third time, and most of the leaves between the third ear and the fifth ear are removed.

2. Benefits of leaf picking

The first leaf picking is for ventilation and light transmission, increase air circulation, avoid high humidity, reduce disease occurrence, easy to spray thoroughly when spraying. Uniform distribution, increase control effect. The second leaf picking is to make the flower develop better and ensure nutrition, so some leaves need to be sacrificed. The third leaf picking is for photosynthesis, to increase organic matter production, mainly for light transmission.

3. Reasonable leaf picking

Old leaves consume more than manufactured ones, and leaves that are two months old need to be removed. Infected leaves, there is a hidden danger of infection, no photosynthetic ability. To remove. Do not pluck leaves too hard, leaving enough leaves to provide photosynthetic products. Too much picking, easy root premature aging. To avoid infection, you can spray some fungicides on the wound of leaf picking. Sunny leaf picking, wound should be small, preferably at noon, high temperature injury flow less.

4. Precautions

Note that tomato fruit in the green to white time, in the vicinity of the fruit leaves can not be picked, otherwise growth is limited, suppress reproductive growth, fruit development. Production will drop. Do not pick healthy green leaves at will. There are some macula leaves as long as they can photosynthesize, do not remove them. You can't pick too many leaves, just remove the two layers of leaves at the base.

Tomato leaf picking is a lot of benefits, but picking leaves have to pay attention to, can not pick leaves at will, only sick leaves and dead leaves can be picked without concern.