Seedlings of tomatoes on the windowsill: the rules of growing

When the window is still winter, many gardeners are greener with seedlings of tomatoes on the windowsill. A couple of months, beautiful, strong bushes, which are already beginning to appear flower buds, will be planted in the open ground or in a film shelter. How to get such a seedling, which will become the basis of a fruitful garden?

To begin with, you need to select the seeds correctly. If you buy them in a store - pay attention to the expiration dates and storage conditions. It is advisable not to overdue it, but if there is any stock at the outlet and the packaging costs much less, you can buy a few pieces and sow it for testing. The germination of such seeds is often low. Also packs should not have traces of damage or wetting. Storage at low temperatures sometimes positively affects the germination, of course, if it is short-lived. Tomatoes are, in their origin, tropical plants, and they are not supposed to endure severe frosts.

Seedling of tomatoes on the windowsill rises in 3-4 days, and 10-14 days later the first real leaf appears - it means it's time to dive. What is the meaning of this operation? First, sorting. Those bushes that grew larger and more powerful planted in one box, the rest - in another. The first will reach the necessary size for landing, earlier, and the second - a little later. If the site is small, and many seedlings have risen, it is better not to transplant the weak one, choose the one that is stronger, and spend the energy on its cultivation. Also, when diving, the rootlets of tomatoes are damaged, and immediately after planting they begin to grow and branch harder, the plant becomes stronger and healthier. If the stems of tomatoes are stretched - transplant them deeper, burying them until the very foliage - on the whole trunk immersed in the soil, new roots will grow.

Seedling of tomatoes on the windowsill is very sensitive to watering. It is advisable not to let the earth in the box dry up. Although a little bowed down bushes come to their senses after half an hour - an hour after watering, often bringing them to this state slows the growth of seedlings.

Since we have to start growing tomatoes on the windowsill in winter, the lack of sunlight affects the seedlings. It stretches, the distance between the leaves increases, and they themselves turn pale. Prevent this effect can be with the help of special chemical fertilizing like "Athlete" or more interesting way - stroking the sprouts. If several times a day to hold a hand over the bush, the seedling will be more squat and strong. And there is a scientific explanation for this: the disturbed leaves of tomatoes release ethylene gas into the air, the same one by which green tomatoes are removed from the bush . It helps to slow the growth of seedlings, and all the strength of nutrients goes to strengthening the bush. The main thing is not to overdo it with affection. Plants are not cats, and ironing them more than 20 times a day is not worth it.

Seedling of tomatoes on the windowsill, especially at the beginning of its development, often adjoins the molds that are excellent on the surface of warm and moist soil. It is not necessary to fight with mold - it disappears by itself, as soon as the tomato bushes grow up. Until then, try not to wet the substrate and provide a reduction in air humidity, for example, by airing, if, of course, the weather allows.

But not only seedlings can be grown in this way. Some hold and adults, fructifying tomatoes on the windowsill. Grades with a low bush fully admit such a way of keeping. Of course, it is more laborious, but for those who do not have a land plot, this is the only way to get your own crop. Breeders selected the following varieties for this purpose: Garden Pearl, Hummingbird, Little Prince, Florida Petite, Siberian Dwarf, etc. Indoor tomatoes need to create conditions that mimic the natural. For example, periodically arrange the rain from the atomizer, and also tap on the stem during flowering - daily, in the middle of the day - to increase the number of ovaries on the bushes.