5 Easy Steps How to Plant Tomatoes At Home
For those of you who have a hobby to grow crops, would be very fun if the penchant can be done at home alone. To channel this hobby, you can take advantage of open land around the residence. Although with limited land, many plants that can be selected for farming activities at home. plants that come from Central and South America is producing fruit that is very useful for human life.
- Choosing quality tomato seeds
The first important thing you should do is choose a good tomato seedlings. To do this you can sort the tomatoes in terms of physical, choose which have normal, fresh and free from all diseases and pests. In addition there are still some criteria that can be used as a reference to choose a suitable tomato fruit used as seeds, as below:
Choose a tomato fruit that is really already in mature condition, with the main characteristic is red and light-skinned.
It has a bigger size than the others
There are no defects or diseases caused by pests or diseases
If it is split then it has a uniform seed density
Tomato seeds are good for large seeds and if soaked in water the seeds are not floating up.
- Conducting seeding of tomato fruit well
After getting superior quality tomato seedlings, then the next step is to seed the seeds of tomatoes. Follow these steps to get a good seeding result:
Perform seeding of tomato seeds well
Soak the seeds of tomatoes first to be seed in water that has been mixed with fungicide. It aims to kill the diseases and pests that are in the seeds of the tomato seeds.
Once soaked, then put the tomato seed into a seeding medium in the form of a mixture of soil with compost fertilizer with a ratio of 1: 1 composition. Media seedlings can be placed in polybags, trays, or pots. Then make a hole in the middle of the seed medium with a finger with a depth of about 5 to 10 cm, then input the seeds of tomato seeds and close the hole with a mixture of soil and media seedlings. Place the seedling medium in the shade, with enough sunlight in the morning only.
Perform watering regularly on the seeding media, ie every morning and evening. Usually after stepping on the age of 7-10 days, the seeds of the tomatoes are seeded will start to sprout. Wait until the tomato seeds are 15 to 20 days from the start, before being transferred to the pot as a planting medium.
- Preparing the pot as a medium for planting the seeds of tomato trees
The next step in how to grow tomatoes in a pot is to prepare a place to grow and grow the tomato tree, in this case the pot or polybag. You can use various types of flowerpots made of plastic materials, ceramics, cement and clay. But you should choose a pot made of clay, because the pore pots from clay will be easily penetrated water and air circulation required roots of tomato plants during the growth period. If you want to take advantage of used goods that are not used at home, can also use a used tin or polybag to plant the tomato seeds.
- Move the seeds of tomato plants from seeding media into pots
Move the seeds of tomato plants from seeding media into pots
Once the 20-day seed in the seeding medium and planting media in the pot is ready for use, then it is time to move the seeds of the seeded tomatoes into the pot. Make a hole in the middle of the planting medium in the pot, then take the seeds along with enough seed medium that covers the root and then input into the planting media hole in the pot, then solidify it using the soil mixture sufficiently. Perform the removal of the seeds with extreme caution, lest any part of the root of the tomato tree is broken or damaged.
- Maintain the growth of tomato plants in pots painstakingly
This stage has an important role to the fertile or the growth of tomato plants in pots. First, place the pot around the sunny house yard in the morning, or it can also be placed on a place that uses a transparent roof, so it is not exposed to direct sunlight during the day. Do watering regularly in the morning and evening, so that the tomato plants get enough water supply.
Maintain the growth of tomato plants in pots painstakingly
Perform pengajiran (pemasasngan bamboo poles in addition to plants) as a medium to propagate for tomato trees that have grown large. To make tomato plants remain fertile and produce a lot of fruit and fresh, give enough manure every two months. Usually when the planting period of 60-90 days, tomato plants can already start in the harvest.
- practical steps how to grow tomatoes in pots, in principle the same process also with how to plant cayenne pepper either in the yard or in the pot. The success of this planting activity depends on your perseverance and level of understanding on how to plant and maintain the plant. Thank you good luck and hopefully useful.
