Planting techniques of potted Little Tomato

Small tomato is a kind of fruit vegetable, its leaves are green, blossom all the year round, and the fruit is ruddy. Making potted plants with it can not only beautify the room, but also make people feel physically and mentally happy. It's the best of both worlds. And put it on the table, it can not only increase a lot of interest, but also increase your appetite. So, how to grow such good potted vegetables? The following editor introduces the planting techniques of potted tomatoes. I hope it will be helpful to you!

1. Variety selection

In order to cultivate high-quality small tomato potted plants, the selection of high-quality varieties can not be ignored. Considering the edible and ornamental properties, it is recommended to choose delicious cherry tomatoes. Relatively speaking, delicious cherry tomato is not only bright and uniform in color, but also round, sweet and sour and delicious, with a very unique flavor, so it is the preferred variety with low price and good quality.

2. Sowing and raising seedlings

Small tomatoes can choose to sow in spring and transplant in autumn so that the joy of fruit can be harvested before the Spring Festival.

Small tomatoes can be directly sowed with dried seeds, or soaked and then sowed into a bowl. The basin soil should be mixed with peat and vermiculite, with 2-3 seeds in each bowl, then covered with wet fine soil and covered with a layer of plastic film. The film can be removed after budding.

3. Water and fertilizer management

The small tomato plant was watered once after it was put into the pot, and then applied organic fertilizer to the potted plant about 3 weeks later, once every other week or so. It is necessary to reduce watering before fruit setting, and keep the basin soil moist but not stagnant during fruit expansion.

4. Pruning

Because the potted tomato varieties we choose can grow indefinitely, if we do not prune them properly, it will cause the phenomenon of growing branches and leaves, and the demand for water and fertilizer will be greatly increased, which will seriously affect the appearance of the plant. resulting in less flowering, less fruit or even no fruit.

1) coring treatment: tomato hair branches have particularity, if not controlled, its lateral axillary buds can also grow robust branches, so when the plant is as high as 70-80 cm, it is necessary to pick the growing point and dwarf the plant. In order to promote its blossom and bear fruit, in addition to pruning the lateral branches, the main part should be properly coring. In this way, the whole basin is fan-shaped, and the fruit will be evenly distributed.

2) Leaf picking treatment: in order to improve the weight-bearing capacity and fruit rate of potted tomato, we need to twist branches, pick leaves and branch. Twisting branches should be carried out in a sunny afternoon, picking leaves is to let the fruit sit on the basin as far as possible, forking is to shape, promote the fruit to increase, color evenly.

3) capping treatment: timely capping of potted tomatoes can not only save the heart-picking link, but also make nutrients more concentrated to transport to the fruit, making the fruit inflated and bright in color.

5. Pest control

Potted tomatoes are less affected by diseases and insect pests and can usually be prevented by spraying potassium dihydrogen phosphate or rice vinegar. In this way, it can not only prevent the invasion of diseases and insect pests, but also play the effect of foliar topdressing. Organic green food is advocated in modern society, and it is suggested that we should avoid using pesticides to control diseases and insect pests as much as possible.

The above editors have introduced the planting techniques of potted tomatoes. Have you mastered them? In order to get sweet and sour delicious, beautiful and moving fruit, but also to test what you have learned, hurry up to plant a pot of small tomatoes!