Cherry Tomato Cultivation: How Do You Prevent Cherry Tomatoes from Growing Too Vigorously?
How do you prevent cherry tomatoes from growing too vigorously? Please introduce methods to control excessive growth in cherry tomatoes. Practice has proven that pressing the vines to control the plant works very well. Vine pressing has the effect of weakening apical dominance and inhibiting rapid vegetative growth, and this effect can be used to regulate plant growth well. Lower vine pressing is mainly to prevent the seedlings...
How do you prevent cherry tomatoes from growing too vigorously? Please introduce methods
To control excessive growth in cherry tomatoes, practice has proven that pressing the vines to control the plant works very well. Vine pressing has the effect of weakening apical dominance and inhibiting rapid vegetative growth, and this effect can be used to regulate plant growth well.
Lower vine pressing is mainly to prevent leggy growth of the seedlings, so it should be done early. It is generally carried out when the plant grows to about 40 cm. This vine pressing can directly press down the 20~30 cm of stem and vine on the lower part of the plant and fix it with soil. On the premise of inhibiting apical dominance, it also makes full use of the tomato's tendency to easily produce adventitious roots, increasing the number of roots and expanding the range over which the plant absorbs nutrients, which is more conducive to forming a strong plant. Middle vine pressing is mainly to regulate the balance between vegetative growth and reproductive growth, and it can generally be carried out at the 3~4 truss stage. This vine pressing can bend or press down the upper 20 cm of stem and vine. In addition to dwarfing the plant and regulating growth, this vine pressing can also adjust the plants to the same height, making the plants uniform and orderly, which is convenient for management.
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