Watering tomatoes: evening or morning, benefits and harms, personal observations

I am writing strictly on the case with small illustrations. I don't have drip irrigation, so I'll write only about the usual one.

Our main containers with water for watering the greenhouse, it is convenient to dilute drugs and fertilizers in them

Benefits of Evening Watering

1. Free solar water heating to a comfortable temperature. T. e. in the evening, water heated during the day is always at hand. In the morning, it is cooler than acceptable.
2. Tomatoes have a law: little water - little poured. So, after the evening watering overnight, they are significantly enlarged. This is especially evident in large-fruited.
3. On a warm night, the bushes grow, the leaf apparatus increases, sometimes the growth is striking.
4. Do you need to introduce biological products with irrigation? From disease? Pests? Necessary. And it's better to do it at night. They manage to work without sunlight.

Disadvantages of evening watering

1. In the morning it often gets very cold, moisture settles on the leaves (not always), plus high air humidity (always). Watering in the evening will exacerbate this situation. This will create very favorable conditions for the development of fungal infections.
2. Due to the sharp growth, cracking occurs in fruits prone to this business. Sometimes critical cracking.

As far as I understand, every morning and every evening the tomato bush adjusts its program, what to do. Or early in the morning or early in the evening. The program works day and night. For example, with a lack of moisture, ripening is accelerated, with an excess, a mass of fruits is gained, they receive more nutrition.

Therefore, watering too late or too early is not necessary. The biological clock will be a little off. There is a tip: water 2 hours before sunset or 2 hours after sunrise, I stick to this approximately.

The benefits of morning watering

1. The leaves need moisture, during the day they actively consume it to cool the bush in the heat and for their other work.
2. The fruits receive less moisture, they do not crack in the greenhouse during the day.
3. When growing slowly, the fruit tastes better.
4. For pathogens, especially fungi, the sun is enemy number one, so the leaves do not get sick during the day with a slight lesion, even with overflow.

Disadvantages of morning watering (conditional)

1. If there is only morning watering, and there is a lack of moisture in the soil, the fruits will be smaller.
2. The water is usually cold. It either needs to be warmed up, for better and faster assimilation, or watered cold, torment the roots. In the heat, there is no such problem.

There are tomatoes that don't care when they are watered:

Indifferent to the watering time, mainly medium-sized tomatoes and cherry tomatoes. But not all!

When do I water

So, there are advantages to one and the other way. What do I choose. Depends on the weather, the temperature of our water, the need for treatment with biological products. It worked out often in the evening. Therefore, the first fruits were more watery, less tasty.

Many tomatoes managed to hang on the bushes longer, they did not grow before our eyes, and turned out to be much tastier. Therefore, if there is a choice, then for the sake of taste, and so that there are fewer cracks, it is better to water it with warm water in the morning. And for the sake of gaining mass in the evening.

And how do you water the tomatoes :)

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