How To Cultivate Tomato Palnts

How to cultivate tomato plants ? Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) Is an important horticultural commodity either because the price is pretty good as well as users in a consumer society. Tomatoes can be eaten as a vegetable or fruit is consumed fresh or in processed form such as tomato sauce.

In general, the tomatoes can be planted in the lowlands to the highlands. Tomatoes require loose soil, porous, fertile soil acidity (pH) between 5-6, 750-1 rainfall. 250 mm / year and 25% relative humidity.

Technical tomato cultivation can vary from region to region and depending on soil conditions, altitude, agro-climate conditions, habits and skills of farmers concerned and available financing. Therefore essential before seeking an intensive tomatoes should consult with a technical officer or the local agricultural extension, but in general technical tomato cultivation can we say briefly as follows:

Preparation of Land

Choose a loose, fertile land with good irrigation. Select is also a land not previously planted with tomatoes or other plants that are still in the family Solanaceae such as peppers, eggplant, tobacco or potato to break the cycle of crop pests.

Perfectly cultivated land, where low soil pH by adding agricultural lime dose of 150 kg per 1. 000 square meters, and mix evenly distributed in conjunction with tillage. Then made beds with a width of 120-160 cm and 40-50 cm in double rows to single row. Among the beds are made ditch with a depth of 20-30 cm width 30 cm.

Basal fertilizer should be given, usually consisting of 4 kg Urea / ZA, 7.5 kg and 4 kg KCl TSP for each one. 000 square feet or if using Compound Fertilizer NPK (15-15-15) approximately 20 pounds per 1000 square meters. Basal fertilizer mixed with the soil evenly over the bed and leave for 5-7 days before planting. Planting hole made with a diameter of approximately 10 cm 15 cm deep planting holes spaced 60 x 80 cm or 60 x 50 cm above the bed.

Seedbed

Select from the tomato seed varieties that have been recommended. Prepare the planting medium is a mixture of soil and manure in the ratio 2: 1, then enter in polybags. Enter the seeds one by one in a polybag and cover lightly with fine soil.

After 8-10 days old seed, select seed of good, strong and healthy. 5-6 leaf seedling leaves (25-30 days after seedling) move into the field.

Planting

Planting the seeds was carried out during 3-4 weeks with 5-6 leaf blade. Planting should be done in the afternoon. Open polybags first, then the input seed to the planting hole to a limited base of the stem, filled with earth with a bit pressed and flush with water.

To seed the dead, damaged or abnormal growth of its stitching done up to a maximum 2-week-old plants after planting and do irrigation / watering setap day until the plants grow normally. Marker pairs immediately so as not to damage the roots of plants with a height marker 1 to 1.5 m.

Crop fertilization.

The first fertilization done at 1-week-old plants after planting with urea and KCl with a ratio of 1: 1 with a dose of 1-2 grams per plant. Fertilizers are given 3 cm around the plant, soil and water tutupkembali with water. A second fertilization age of 2-3 weeks after planting with the same fertilizer dose of 5 g, administered 5 cm around the plant stem. Fertilization is then performed at 4 weeks old plants after planting with the same fertilizer dose of 7 grams per plant, given 7 cm around the plant. Liquid organic fertilizer can be applied every 7 days by spraying with appropriate dosing recommendations.

Weeding

Weeding is done when the plants are 28 days after transplanting (DAT) in conjunction with the tilling and fertilizing the plants pengguludan aftershocks followed. Weeding is then performed on the old plants 40-45 DAT.

Fastening

To sustain the plants that are not easily collapsed, the crops had reached a height of 10-15 cm should be tied to the stake. Binding of each plant to grow again waged a height of less than 20 cm. Plant tied with a shape like a figure 8 with a plastic rope (raffia / Japanese grass), so plants are not damaged by abrasion stake.

Disposal of shoots

Disposal of unproductive shoots every week and only retain three main branches for each plant. Disposal shoots aims to stimulate flowering plants at the age of 32 days after planting. Disposal shoots should be done in the morning to make dries quickly so as not become place the entry of the disease.

Plant height can be limited by cutting off the tip of the plant when the fruit reach 5-7 fruits per stalk.

 Those are some ways to cultivate tomato plants, lots of things we need to learn about cultivate these plants very well, because of the many pests that are attacking this plant. See also articles about how to care tomato plants.