Top dressing of tomatoes during the fruiting period

Tomatoes are plants that require a lot of effort from the gardener when growing. This is the preparation of seedlings, and the preparation of the greenhouse, watering and, of course, top dressing. The tomato belongs to the third group of plants in terms of nutrient intake, namely, it has medium requirements. During the growing season, the nutritional requirements of a tomato change. Most of all various substances are necessary for plants during flowering, fruit setting and their filling. Therefore, top dressing of tomatoes during the fruiting period is an important event without which you cannot get a good harvest.

The diet of tomatoes consists of macro and microelements. The first group consists of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Each of them plays a role in the life cycle of tomatoes.

The role of macronutrients in the development of tomatoes

• Nitrogen is very important for all plants. It is a constituent element of all plant tissues. For tomatoes, both a deficiency and an excess of this nutrient are harmful. A deficiency slows down the growth of plants, and an excess causes a rapid growth of green mass to the detriment of fruiting.
• Phosphorus. Without it, the root system slowly grows, the growth of plants and their transition to fruiting slow down.
• Potassium. Tomatoes are very demanding on the content of potassium in the soil, especially during the fruiting period. Potassium is not only actively involved in the metabolism of tomatoes, but also stimulates their immunity and resistance to diseases.

For successful growth and fruiting, tomatoes need magnesium, boron, molybdenum, calcium, zinc, copper and iron.

The following table will be useful for diagnosing the state of the plant and the lack of basic nutrients in it.

All plants get their nutrition from the soil. Its provision with fertilizers is an important component of their successful development. For tomatoes, it is very important to have all the nutrients in full. Only then will the tomatoes take the nutrients that they need in each period of development. But if we want to get not a green mass, but a fruit crop, we need certain restrictions on the content of nitrogen in top dressings, but on the content of organic matter in the soil.

If tomato seedlings are planted, as it should be with the first flowering brush, subsequent top dressing should be aimed at ensuring fruit set, accelerating their filling and improving the quality of tomatoes.

It was then that the first flower brush was laid in a small plant. Top dressing is carried out with potassium sulfate. To carry it out, you need to dilute a quarter tablespoon of potassium sulfate in 2,5 liters of water.

First dressing of tomatoes

For the rapid growth of planted plants and successful flowering, it is very good to carry out the first dressing with green fertilizer. It is prepared as follows.

• A fifty-liter plastic, but not metal, tank is filled one-third with green grass with a predominance of nettles.
• Add half a bucket of fresh mullein.
• Pour out a liter jar of wood ash.
• Add a half-liter jar of fermented jam.
• Add half a kilogram of pressed yeast.

This mixture should be infused for at least a week. It is better not to keep the tank in the sun. Stir the contents daily. When fermentation is completed, one liter of the liquid fraction is added to a ten-liter bucket of water and poured under the root of a liter for each tomato bush. Such a fertilizer will enrich the plants with both organic and mineral substances. It will allow him to build up the root mass and set fruits on the first brush.

Boric acid top dressing

At the flowering stage, it is very important that the tomato does not have a boron deficiency, which is responsible for ensuring that each tomato flower becomes a full-fledged ovary. Boron is an inactive element, so it cannot reach the stem and leaves of the plant from the roots. Therefore, foliar top dressing with this element will be required.

To do this is quite simple. You will need to dilute a tablespoon of the drug in a ten-liter bucket of water and spray the tomato plants from the sprayer. This amount of solution should be enough for the rest of the foliar top dressing, which must be carried out during the formation of each flower brush of tomatoes: the second and third. You can add 10-15 drops of iodine to a bucket of solution. This will make up for the deficiency of this element in tomatoes.

Top dressing of tomatoes during the period of fruit filling

Top dressing of tomatoes during fruiting must necessarily include potassium, since at this time the need for plants in it is maximum. Even if top dressing is carried out with a full complex fertilizer, it is necessary to additionally add 20 grams of potassium sulfate per ten-liter bucket to the main solution.

If there are signs of potassium starvation, foliar top dressing with a XNUMX% solution of potassium sulfate should be carried out to quickly fill the fruit.

Instead of potassium sulfate, you can also use wood ash top dressing. It contains not only a lot of potassium, but also a variety of trace elements that are also necessary for the growth of fruits. Ashes can be sprinkled on the soil under the tomatoes and then carefully loosened. But then useful potassium will flow to the plants slowly.

Feeding with an ash extract is much more effective. How to do it right, you can watch the video:

Tomatoes need nitrogen for quick fruiting, and on sandy and sandy soils, magnesium is also required. Therefore, it will be useful at this time to feed with a complete complex fertilizer with trace elements. The consumption rate is 40 grams per ten-liter bucket. Such top dressing should be carried out every decade during the period of active flowering of tomatoes and pouring fruits on them. Each plant will require about 700 milliliters of solution. For tall plants, the watering rate is increased.

The role of humate for top dressing of tomatoes

With each top dressing, it is necessary to add humates in dissolved or dry form to the working solution. Dry humate requires one teaspoon per bucket of working solution, and liquid humate 25 milliliters. Humate promotes the growth of roots, which actually feed the tomatoes. In addition, humic preparations are produced with the addition of trace elements, so they can eliminate the lack of various trace elements in tomatoes.

With root and foliar top dressing of tomatoes, you need to remember that the plant will still take all the necessary elements from the soil, of course, if they are in it. The task of the gardener is to carefully observe the tomatoes and provide them with a complete diet.

The Mitlider method, followed by many gardeners, involves the use of massive doses of mineral fertilizers. And at the same time, the fruits grown by this method do not contain any harmful substances, including nitrates. Under natural conditions, wild tomatoes are not programmed for a large harvest; it is enough if at least one fruit ripens to continue the genus. Therefore, wild tomatoes use nitrogen to build green mass. For gardeners, the main thing is to get the maximum yield, and they do not need extra leaves, and even more so stepchildren. Therefore, for the development of a tomato, an excess of any fertilizer, except nitrogen, is not terrible.

Feed tomatoes during flowering and fruiting correctly, and a rich harvest will not take long.