A simple little trick for growing tomatoes on the balcony: twice as many fruits and bigger tomatoes

Tomatoes, that is, tomatoes, have high nutritional value, and can be both eaten and enjoyed as ornamentals. Grow a pot on the balcony, and when you want to eat tomatoes you do not need to go out and buy them; just pick and eat them fresh.When growing potted tomatoes in flower pots on the balcony, how can you get more fruits?

When growing tomatoes, if the soil is dug up yourself from the outskirts, it is best to sift it, throw away stones and the like, then sterilize it by sun exposure or with boiling water. Add some fermented organic fertilizer. Use less chemical fertilizer.

When sowing, soak the seeds in warm water for four hours, or place them on a wet paper towel to sprout, spraying water constantly. After one or two days, once they show white, sow them into the soil for faster germination.

Once the tomato seedlings grow to five leaves, they can be transplanted. Be sure to transplant them into a new flower pot with part of the original soil, that is, with a soil ball. After planting, water thoroughly. Transplanting lets the tomato seedlings grow more vigorously.

When the side shoots that tomatoes grow reach ten cm long, you need to promptly remove the shoots and pinch off the tips, so that the side branches do not steal nutrients and affect the growth of the tomatoes.

How to remove shoots and pinch tips on tomatoes:

In this picture, the marked places are the side buds that need to be pinched off. The first side bud below the first cluster of flowers should be pinched off promptly. When the tomato grows to fifteen cm, pinch off the other side buds below the flowers, as well as the side buds above the first cluster of flowers.

In addition, when it has set fruit up to the fourth truss, the very top can be topped, at about eighty cm tall, that is, pinch out the very top growing point. This prevents it from growing wildly.

Throughout the tomato's growing period, it is not only shoot removal that is needed, but also tip pinching. After it has flowered and set fruit, after the fourth truss of flowers and fruits, just pinch off the top of the main stem as well.

After pinching and topping potted tomatoes grown on the balcony, the plant's wild growth can be controlled.

After that, you need to set up a support for it to prevent the plant from lodging, and before flowering and fruiting, water and fertilize in time.

From sowing the seeds to harvest, tomatoes take about ninety days. After three months, you can eat the tomatoes you grew with your own hands.