Maturation of green tomatoes. When to collect the tomatoes from the bushes. Tips gardener growing tomatoes
In order to grow delicious tomatoes and juicy fruit, it is necessary to know how to properly care for ripening and ripe fruits, and it turns out to be not so easy!
The main danger, which affects tomatoes, it is rotting, so you should promptly delete unnecessary brushes with flowers (that do not have time to ripen fruits), new stepsons, leaves that interfere with the growth of the fruit. It is necessary to attach the shoot tips with tomatoes, and the fruits turn to sunlight. In addition to all the major supplements that help grow and develop, experts advise in the period from August 10 to handle the plants with a special solution (1 tbsp. Spoon of urea per 10 liters of water), half liters which is enough for one plant.
When to collect the tomatoes from the bushes?
Do not wait until the fruits turn red in the bush. Pluck them better green, and then send to ripen indoors. To avoid blackening when ripening, the fruits need to be preheated. To this container is filled with water having a temperature of about 60 C, is immersed to about one kilogram of tomatoes and hold for 1-3 minutes, and then wiped dry with a soft cloth and dried in sunlight. After this procedure, you can put them to ripen.
Fruits are laid in several layers in the box, but not more than three layers. Between the layers you want to place the peat (dry) or sawdust can also wrap each tomato paper. You can put the box and the sun, and leave without light, but the sun, of course, your tomatoes are juicier and more vivid. For tomatoes important factor of the heat, so we must try to keep them in a room where the temperature is about 23 degrees. Before laying the tomatoes must be free from all “green” and peduncles. Often to ripen green tomatoes add red, ripe fruit, they will give off ethylene, and will accelerate the maturation of the rest.
Since tomatoes are afraid of the cold, it is necessary to remove all the fruit from bushes before the night the air temperature drops below.