When growing vegetables in rural areas, watch out - this kind of scam is hard to guard against

I didn't sleep in the middle of the night last night, I kept counseling a student. Fu Jian is my student, and also a vegetable grower. The young man is in his twenties or thirties, and after graduating from an agricultural university he ran back home to grow vegetables. According to his plan, growing vegetables was sure to make money.

Before going home he told me that he was determined to improve his family's poor life, to let his parents ride in a car he bought and live in a small villa he bought.

But before the small villa was bought, he lost a very good cousin. Fu Jian's cousin sells agricultural supplies in town, and the two have been very close since childhood.

Fu Jian knew that the agricultural supplies industry is full of pitfalls, but his own cousin would surely not cheat him. From the start of building greenhouses, to buying seedlings, buying pesticides and fertilizers, he always went to his cousin for help.

After the tomatoes were planted this year, many of the seedlings did not grow and stayed like that. Fu Jian felt that this should mean there was a problem with the seedlings he bought, so he called his cousin over to look. The cousin said the tomatoes had viral disease, and gave him some medicine to spray twice, but the seedlings still did not grow. In the end he asked a teacher to help analyze the cause, and the teacher said these were definitely aged seedlings, and had nothing to do with viral disease.

This made Fu Jian depressed. Everyone says agricultural supply stores make money, and it turns out this is how they make money, cheating even their own cousin. Fu Jian ran to the agricultural supply store and scolded his cousin without asking any questions, and in the end the two even came to blows.

After Fu Jian told me about this, I told him that his cousin should not be blamed, since he might not have known when buying seedlings from the nursery that these were aged seedlings, and advised him it was best to find out the reason clearly before drawing a conclusion.

But the most important thing is still to solve the current problem of aged seedlings. As long as later management keeps up, yield and other aspects can still catch up with normal seedlings. The first thing is night temperature control. Generally, leaves are kept at 15-18°C, but for aged seedlings the night temperature should be raised appropriately, ideally around 19°C. Narrowing the day-night temperature difference is more conducive to tomato growth.

In addition, use biological bacteria to drench the roots to improve root growth, and at the same time use gibberellin + brassinolide + indoleacetic acid for foliar spraying to improve the tomato's growth.

Another thing is that after the first truss of tomatoes sets fruit, remove it promptly, as this is more conducive to the rapid growth of the tomatoes. When problems appear, don't rush to destroy them and replant; maybe there is a method that suits you. Click"Learn more"for free agricultural technology Q&A