Balcony Vegetable Planting Chapter: "Potted Tomatoes"
Hello, everyone, welcome to watch this issue, I am your good friend Xiaohua. Not long ago, I did receive private messages from some flower friends. Among them, some friends expressed their interest in growing vegetables on the balcony, wanted to look deeper, and hoped that Xiaohua could dedicate a special issue to this aspect. In this regard, Xiaohua immediately made a decision, began to prepare, and chose the cherry tomato with strong adaptability and good resistance as a reference object. So, I hope today's content can be helpful to everyone.
First, prepare for it.
1. Planting time
Due to the high temperature environment, it is afraid that it will affect the normal growth of seedlings, so friends who intend to pot cherry tomatoes should choose to carry out when the weather is not cold or hot in the spring and autumn.
2. Disinfect the ovules.
Simply put, the ovules are wrapped in clean gauze, then put into a solution of trisodium phosphate at a concentration of 15%, and wait for about 15 to 20 minutes. Subsequently, wrap the ovules with wet gauze again, so that the temperature in the environment is controlled as much as possible at about 25 to 30 ° C, and insist on cleaning the ovules with warm water every day, generally about 2 to 3 times to stop.
Third, the upper basin.
First, for the preparation of cherry tomatoes that meet the requirements of the growing medium, if you are worried about insufficient fertility, you can go to the bottom of the pot, pad a small amount of base fertilizer, here, the small flowers are more recommended for everyone to use, has rotted complete organic fertilizer. Second, the ovules that have been treated in the "two" step are carefully planted into the pot, and the surface of the soil should not be too thick, about 0.5 cm. Not surprisingly, after a week, people can reap the good news.
Second, the normal maintenance process.
First, lighting.
Cherry tomatoes are born to like light and are not tolerant of strong light exposure, should be within a safe range, to ensure that they can be exposed to sufficient sunlight all day, so as to successfully complete photosynthesis, for the subsequent flowering and fruit, lay a solid foundation.
Second, the temperature.
In principle, the best temperature suitable for the growth and development of cherry tomatoes is 20 ~ 25 ° C, too high or too low, will have an adverse impact on them, especially the upcoming high temperature weather, it is easy to force them into dormancy, stop growing, so we must strictly control the temperature.
Third, water and fertilizer.
On the one hand, plants are water-friendly and waterlogged, and need to follow the principle of dry and thorough watering to keep the potting soil in a relatively moist state; on the other hand, the cherry tomato has a higher demand for fertility, and at the same time, it is required to apply more potassium fertilizer instead of nitrogen fertilizer.
In addition, if you want to potted cherry tomatoes, its branches can hang fruit as much as possible, you can take two ways to "fruit".
First, artificially help pollination.
Gently holding the plant and shaking the stem with moderate force to promote its pollen can successfully achieve interaction between each other.
Second, reasonable pruning.
The main purpose of this move is to reduce the unnecessary consumption of nutrients. Sometimes, if you don't prune the plant with all your heart, it is really a woman's benevolence, and you will only let the so-called dead branches and yellow leaves, diseased branches, weak branches, etc., continue to consume and empty the nutrients in the body, and there will be no benefit to the budding results of the cherry tomatoes in the future. Therefore, we can moderately trim the plant shape and remove those parts that are not growing well in time.
Today's content ends here, cherry tomatoes, also known as cherry tomatoes, is a tomato plant of the solanaceae family, its fruit is sweet and sour, and the food makes people's teeth and cheeks grow. Studies have shown that as an upgraded version of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes contain higher vitamin content, about 1.7 times that of ordinary large tomatoes. Most importantly, cherry tomatoes are petite and cute, sweet and delicious, more suitable for direct consumption than normal tomatoes, and for health reasons, in order to effectively supplement the lack of nutrients in the child's body, it can be used as a fruit to "trick" them to eat.