Thickened bushes - did not damage tomatoes
Many stems and leaves are good for tomatoes. I will show it in the photo and video.
It's about tall tomatoes in a greenhouse.
Everything is clear without words
As long as I don't touch the leaves, these are the lungs and the stomach of a tomato :) Therefore, it is not always possible to approach for a photo shoot and video. Where she could, she filmed there.
There were three stalks, and they all bifurcated, now there are six of them, and the places are a quarter of a square meter. A lot of tomatoes have been tied, I have already tied up several brushes so that they do not break off. They are boar slowly.
And this is a video about tomato Delicious from July 3:
Who cares, the seedlings were on March 10, 116 days passed before the first fruit, the first tomato even slightly overripe. The taste is good, the best so far from the early ones.
And this is a Yellow bag, she could not even count the stems, it is so cramped for her.
And again the photo.
She has obvious deviations from varietal characteristics, but I still like her already. She got the extreme place, usually the tomatoes are oppressed on the edge, they can get sick, but the Florentine the beauty hides behind her medium-sized leaves from the burning western sun and well herself feels.
The fruits are not from thickening, of course :)
So why didn't thickening damage my tomatoes?
- The season is good. In general, it is still hot and not rainy, quite favorable for tomatoes.
- Healthy bushes, a good greenhouse environment - round-the-clock airing in the summer, hay with a hay stick, and other useful biota.
- There is always something to eat and drink to the bush. It's the most important. She fed and watered very well, enough for everything that was tied up and growing.
- And we also have the heat in the greenhouse - the most serious danger to the normal fruiting of tomatoes. So, leaves protected the bushes from the heat!
- Plastic water bottles also absorb heat from the air.
- There is a shading net on the south side.
It was not I who came up with the idea of growing Indets in several stems and do not rush to remove the leaves. Several videos were impressed.
Don't think this article is advice. Each has its own reality. Someone will suit my experience, someone will not.
I will also clarify that not all bushes are capable of an equally large harvest.
Tips not to plant tomatoes close to each other, lead them into one stem, and even remove leaves that are not empty. Indeed, when the bush thickens, there are risks:
- Diseases (leaves interfere with airing)
- Most of the bush is poorly lit (loss of tomato flavor)
- Lack of nutrition (fruits can be small, and there will be few of them)
So, in my jungle, the leaves have worked successfully against overheating.
How do you feel about thickening tomatoes?
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