Growing a cherry tomato in the home
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Cherry tomatoes: grow at home
The price of these wonderful, beloved mini tomatoes "bites", especially in the winter. Therefore, inveterate truck farmers have long been growing cherry themselves, and right on the windowsill!
- FAMILY: Nightshade
- FRUIT: Mass 10-70 g
- KUST: The average height of 15-70 cm
- FEATURES: Indoor tomatoes differ in increased shadowiness, they do not stretch, they are compact, they are productive, they are not afraid of drafts
In addition to pleasant taste, good and unpretentiousness, cherries are beneficial in that they decorate any room: compact bushes with pink, rich red, yellow, orange tomatoes will not leave anyone indifferent! Semenacherci in the house can be sown almost at any time: from November to August. When sowing, let's say, in the beginning of December, shoots appear in the middle of the month, even days through 18-20 they are dived, and after another 50-55 days the first crop is harvested. Thus, when sowing in December, you will receive fruits in early March, when sowing in January - early April, in August - closer to the beginning of November.
Reference by topic: Cherry tomatoes (photo) at home
For growing in small pots and boxes, you need to choose cherry varieties with a compact shrub shape up to 30-40 cm
Preparing cherry for planting at home
Seeds before sowing it is important to "wake up": in the saucer pour water of room temperature, put a rag on top, and when it is impregnated, over the seeds are laid out (for one day). Old seeds "cheer", adding to the water any growth stimulant. And if the seeds are not sure, they are dipped in 5-7 minutes in a weak solution of potassium permanganate before being soaked, after which they are washed under a stream of running water. Parallel preparation of the soil (it is suitable for both seedlings and adult plants): humus, peat and turf in equal parts. If possible, any complex mineral fertilizer or crushed charcoal (200 g per 10-12 kg) is added to the mixture.
Sowing Cherry Seeds
On the surface of the substrate, grooves are made with a depth of about 1,5 cm and the seeds are laid out at a distance of about 1 cm. If seeds of several varieties are sown, they try to fit each in one row. After the rows, they are sprinkled with the same soil with a layer of 0,5 cm and watered (preferably from a spray bottle, so as not to erode the soil). In order for the seeds to sprout quickly and amicably, the container is kept at a temperature of + 26 ... + 27 degrees, and illuminated for at least 10 hours a day. In a living room, it is difficult to maintain such a temperature, so they put the nursery near the battery and cover it with foil. It is watered very carefully during this period and only if the earth begins to dry out. With the advent of seedlings, they remove the film and transfer the containers to the windowsill. There the plants last 20-25 days until a couple of real leaves appear. At this stage, the soil is moistened as the top layer dries, not more often.
Cherry picking at home
Dive seedlings into individual pots with a diameter of about 10 cm, gently pinching the tip of the root to enhance tillering. Immediately after planting, the plants are abundantly watered, and then again exposed to the sunny (preferably southern) window sill and try to maintain the temperature at least 24 ... + 25 degrees for at least the first couple of days, after which it is reduced to + 22 ... + 23 degrees. At this time, the soil is periodically watered and loosened, the room is aired, and approximately once a week, a complex mineral fertilizer is applied according to the instructions.
Transplanting and caring for cherry tomatoes at home
As soon as tomatoes form 7-9 of these leaves, they are transplanted into a larger bowl, about 5 l. This time the plants are buried at 11-13 cm to stimulate the formation of additional rootlets. A week later tomatoes are fed with complex mineral fertilizer, spending 200-260 ml of solution per bush, and so every 18-20 days.
For good fruit tying, the cherry is periodically watered, especially when the plants are in bloom, pollinated by additional soft mittens, loosened the soil. Cherry tall varieties are also stepchild, tied to the support, and the ground is poured soil. Harvest the harvest as the fruit ripens. Approximately in the beginning-middle of June homemade cherry tomatoes carefully, trying not to damage the earth litter, can be planted in the open ground.
TIP: Sometimes, with increased soil moisture and air, tomatoes in the house are "attacked" by a black leg. To avoid this, you can water plants with a weak solution of potassium permanganate for about 10-12 days.
Reference by topic: Cultivation of dwarf varieties of tomatoes and cherry tomatoes in a greenhouse.
Home-grown cherry: bush height
Allocate Cherry undersized (Pygmy, Cherry Lisa F1, Bonsai, Minibel, Zelenushka Ft, etc.) and tall varieties {Cherry cocktail, Fut Bead, Baby, Baby, Golden Queen. Marishka F1 and others). For growing on a window sill, the first ones are often chosen, but if you have high windows, a warmed balcony or loggia, you can try to grow cherry of tall varieties that will give at least twice as much harvest.
VOLUME TOMATOES CHERRY FOR THE SLEEVE |
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Name |
Description |
Features |
Minibel |
Compact, short (height 30-40 cm), ultra-shrinking (89-96 days) |
It is hung with bright red fruits weighing 15-25. Adapted to low light, small area of nutrition |
Bonsai |
A small, short, miniature, high-yielding tomato with a height of about 20-30, see Ultra-fast (85-90 days) |
Plants do not require shaping, decorative. Fruits are red, globular, weight 20-25 g, from the bush it is possible to collect 0,5 kg |
Red beanie |
Early maturing - begins to ripen on 85-90-th day after full sprouting. The plant is short, does not require formation |
Fruits are roundish, red, weight 15-20. Yield - 0,25 kg from a plant |
To the note trying to grow cherry on the windowsill
When cherry tomato seedlings grow sufficiently, I transplant the plants into permanent pots with a nutritive soil: peat, sand, turf and humus (1: 1: 1: 1).
Cherry stunted varieties quite fit pot volume 3, a maximum of 5 l. Tall tall plants in a larger container - on 8, or even 12 l. In the pots on the bottom for drainage I pour a layer of expanded clay and sand in 2-3. I sprinkle a little soil, then I put the plant with a clod of earth and sprinkle around the soil under the cotyledons.
I water about once a week. The soil, as a little dry, loosen, and cherry slightly hill. If the soil is a donkey, I can even pour a layer of fresh peat or a nutrient mixture, so that the plants form additional roots. So they will get more nutrition, the trunks will become thicker, which means they are more stable.
Benefit of Cherry Tomato
Cherry tomatoes are rich in iron, sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium. which reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases.
Contain vitamins C, E, group B, organic acids and antioxidants. slowing down the aging process and normalizing the metabolism.
In fruits of tomatoes contains lycopene, which has anti-cancer effect.
Cultivation of cherry - personal experience
This story began with my mother-in-law's desire to grow cherry tomatoes last year. And her summer experiments she decided to put on my site. Well, I did not mind and allocated a place for this, in spring the plants were sown according to all the rules, took root.
But the summer that came turned out to be hot, and since my family participated in that experiment only nominally, then, consequently, in the absence of my mother-in-law at the dacha, no one watered her planting. And the tomatoes grew very weak, stunted, the fruits on them were tiny, the size of cherries. But most importantly, it also tastes very sour. I remember then I thought: "Why do people go crazy with these notorious cherry?" But the mother-in-law said nothing. And she was not going to give up. This year, I planted cherry trees for seedlings: very densely, in three boxes at once, which I put on the windowsills.
But the light there was not enough for them, and the seedlings turned out to be stunted. The mother-in-law put an end to her and was about to throw it away, and I suddenly felt so sorry for these thin, poor little sprouts ... In general, I took all the boxes to myself, put them on the window that looks east. After a couple of weeks, the sprouts were a little fun.
Then I broke them into pots. In general, about half of the sprouts survived, but even this was very much for my garden in three hundred parts. But do not throw out now those whom I saved myself. As a result, the whole place in the garden was occupied by cherry. And they liked it there, because I kept chickens for three years and covered the whole area in autumn with a layer of litter, which by spring completely burned out.
And then I came across an old 20-liter saucepan with a falling out bottom, and I remembered how in one of the magazines there was a letter about planting tomatoes in a "bottomless" bucket. So I planted two of the longest and leanest seedlings in this pan. When planting, sprinkled with crushed eggshells, phosphorus-potassium fertilizer (a little bit), banana skins in layers. And left everything on the street.
The summer was rainy, there were no problems with watering, the cherry trees grew simply huge, growing from me. And the fruits of them were the same size as ordinary varieties. Her mother-in-law did not even believe that it was her stunted seedling that gave such a miracle.
Now I can not believe that until recently I was not interested in tomatoes. In photo 1 - my cherry plantation, in photo 2 and 3 - my tomato trees with fruitful clusters.
Elena Lebedeva
Cherry - favorites
It’s not far to spring, but still, in her expectation, every day stretches simply mercilessly. What can help pass the time? Everyone's favorite tomatoes! You look at their seedlings - the heart rejoices! And besides, it’s so nice to make plans for future crops.
So I decided to write about them. After all, no matter how much you say on this topic, everything is not enough, because there are enough important details here, and without them you will not grow large, juicy tomatoes, from which you yourself get pleasure, and buyers at the bazaar are happy. I have a lot of different varieties and species growing, but recently there were pets, even, you might say, the favorites are the leaders.
And I met them by accident: I went to the supermarket and on a shelf I saw in the box a green branch with red small and elastic fruits. I was interested (although before that the size of tomatoes was one of the main points for me), I bought it, I tried it - it tastes sweet. I liked it, I decided to plant it. Happened.
Now I do so. I collect land from the garden, add humus and purchased soil, I add a little superphosphate and ash, I mix everything. I pour boiling water with manganese. When the earth cools down, I sow the seeds. I cover with cellophane and put it in a warm place. As soon as the eyelets of the shoots appear, I rearrange the window sill, taking off the shelter. I watered as necessary.
As the street warms, I take out seedlings for hardening. I put it first in the penumbra for 10 minutes, every day I extend the "walk" time, gradually pushing the plants to the sun. As soon as frosts have passed, I plant two rows of soil in the soil with intervals between the plants in 50-60 cm. For the whole summer I only water a couple of times (water, by the way, not under the roots, but in a special shallow groove that I do between the rows). Why so few? But because the whole area, which is occupied by my tomatoes, I tightly mulch grass.
If it gets really hot in the summer, I pour from the hose, but only in the mornings, while the land is still cold.
Since the cherry bushes grow in height more than a meter, I make supports for them, and for each row I own: I drive the stakes into the ground in one line, and I already attach a continuous long rail to them, to which I attach the plants as needed. This landing looks great, especially when the fruits begin to turn red. They sing, I must say, until the colds. I collect them at intervals of a week, and each time we get one and a half buckets from a row. What else is good about cherry tomatoes is that they are simply incomparable in pickling: put in your mouth - and don’t need to cut it (and if someone doesn’t like the skin, it’s easy to peel off).
Conclusions: comrades truck farmers, plant and you have a cherry, you will not regret.
Without any troubles, this seedling grows on the window. And it can be planted in the soil immediately after frost - a large crop is guaranteed to you.
© Author: Lidia Petrovna Kropotkin, Krasnodar Region
© Authors: Irina GURIEVA, ml. scientific. Comp. All-Russian Research Institute. Michurina, Marina Strinatko, Boryspil
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I planted 3 varieties of tomatoes: cherry yellow and red and "cream". With cherry with both all right, but with "cream" trouble. Virtually all the flowers along with the pedicel withered, tomatoes on the fingers could be counted. In addition, only one bush was "cream", the rest were incomprehensible big fruit with holes. And one more question: why do the stepsons grow from the leaves and in the continuation of the flower brush? This is normal?
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Causes, causing the drying of flowers, a great many. There are the most common causes of this phenomenon in tomatoes, in particular:
- insufficient pollination for pollinated varieties;
- temperature outside the range of comfortable growth;
- violation of nitrogen nutrition;
- violation of the water regime - little moisture or, conversely, its excess;
- defeat by pests or diseases;
- excessive number of fruits.
Any of these causes can cause
drying or falling of flowers. Therefore, noticing that the flowers began to turn yellow and fall off, it is necessary to quickly understand what is disrupted in the technology of cultivation, and immediately take action. If this has already happened, then it is necessary to draw conclusions and prevent this from happening again next year.
According to the presented photo, one gets the impression that the plant is affected by phyto-fluorosis. Since only the "
ki "(one of the varieties of tomato), it can be assumed that the cultivated variety did not have resistance (the ability to resist) to late blight. Take this into consideration and carefully approach the choice of cultivar in your own conditions.
Growing on "cream" large tomatoes, most likely, were the result of cross-pollination with other species and varieties, and maybe you sold the wrong seeds.
In that stepchildren grow from leaves and in the continuation of the flower brush, the growing conditions are to blame: temperature - too cool or hot, violation of optimal humidity, unbalanced nutrition.
To be frightened and to experience here it is not necessary. Leafs-stepchildren should be cut off, but there will be no consequences for further vegetation.
The mechanism of this phenomenon lies in hormonal abnormalities arising under the influence of stress factors of the external environment. An increased amount of auxin (a hormone responsible for the growth of fruits and shoots) is created. Most often this happens when there is a lack of light and high humidity.
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At home, cherry tomatoes are grown in simple vases or hanging baskets. For this, low-quality varieties for open beds are suitable. They root system is less active, and plants will normally develop in a limited space.
Vases or any other suitable container is chosen by the volume of 2 l and we put in them one seedling. This will prevent thickening and will enable to grow strong bushes with a good harvest. To create an excellent decorative effect, you can place several seedlings in decorative baskets. Vases are used in capacities from 5 to 20 l.
For hanging baskets, ampel varieties of cherry tomatoes are optimal. They are intended to bear fruit in a hanging position and have excellent decorative qualities. Such varieties do not require pasynkovaniya, they bend their branches, and the fruits are much smaller than those of simple cherry tomatoes.
It should be remembered that regardless of the way of growing, such tomatoes do not tolerate air stagnation and drought. They require constant watering with soft warm water. Fruits must be fully ripened, greenish have low taste qualities.
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Cherry tomatoes are very fond of my children.
Still would! These tomatoes are very sweet and small - a "children's" size.
Low-grown cherry varieties do not require garters, very early, so we try the first fruits at the end of June. Pleases with a variety and color scale: orange, yellow, dark-red tomatoes look beautifully in a salad.
In March, I sow cherries in boxes, and then transplant the seedlings in a greenhouse. Since the varieties I select are undersized, the plant places take up a little. To such dwarf cherry is, for example, Florida PETIT. Its stem barely reaches 25 cm, and the fruit is very sweet. Very compact bushes also in Pygmy. If you like sweet and sour taste, then plant Bonsai.
All these little bushes take up little space, but are very productive, they can be grown both in the open ground, in the greenhouse, and even at home.
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Cherry in baskets
People of my generation know how to use their minds every square centimeter, so all the places lit by the sun are occupied on the balcony, including ... on the wall!
In February, I sow the seeds of Cherry Garden pearl on seedlings. In chernozem I add some loose sand for looseness. About a week later, when 3 leaves appear, I dive them into separate pots.
The balcony I have glazed, so the bird cherry colds to my tomatoes are not terrible. Already at the end of April, I plant seedlings in hanging baskets. Soil I use the same as for seedlings. I stop watering for a day, but I put the bushes in a damp ground. Immediately pour with warm water and, when it is absorbed, I sprinkle roots with a layer of soil 2-3, see.
I hang baskets of tomatoes on hooks driven into the wall under the ceiling in a checkerboard pattern for better illumination. I get very good harvests - enough for salads.
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Prepare seedlings in the summer, eat tomatoes in winter!
Since the lamps for plant lighting have become available, I have been fascinated by the cultivation of cherry tomatoes on the window sill. Varieties I choose early, with low, compact bushes and not too large, but dense brushes.
I especially like Balcony Miracle - a variety developed for indoor cultivation and not too sensitive to the length of daylight hours. So that tomato bushes with bright fruits adorn the windowsill in late autumn, I grow seedlings in the summer, in July. I carry out pre-sowing preparation of seeds as usual: I disinfect them in a solution of potassium permanganate, soak for half a day for swelling and sow in a nursery.
Previously, planted seedlings in hothouse beds, but it turned out that then the roots are too injured when transplanting into pots. Yes, and plants are already getting used to living freely, using a large volume of land, and then hard to survive the restrictions. Therefore, I now dive grown seedlings first in 1 liter pots, and then transfer to permanent residence in 5-liter.
I feed the plants once every 2 weeks, alternating the ash-manure infusion and the superphosphate solution (1 tsp for 1 L of water).
Closer to August, pots with indoor tomatoes I carry from the greenhouse to the veranda so that the plants do not pick up the phytophthora. Just in case, I still spray them with diluted milk whey with a drop of honey. At the same time, I begin to include the evening light at 1-2 hours, as the natural light day is reduced, and the tomatoes are yet to mature and blossom.
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Tomato crumbs
I always dreamed of growing cherry on the windowsill - it turned out to be not so difficult!
You can start at any time of the year, but ideally - in the middle of spring. Cherry love the soil with trace elements, take care of this in advance.
Choose undersized varieties that grow well. Before planting, soak the seeds in the growth activator for 10 hours. Then sow the seeds, immersed in the soil by 0.5 cm, pour warm water, cover with a film. After 5 days, wait for the shoots! Let them grow - and only then thin out, leaving the strongest.
When the tomatoes give a third true leaf, transplant them into separate small pots. And after a month - in large constants (pots in the shape of a cylinder are ideal). Cherry is afraid of too wet soil, watering with cold water and drafts. They need regular loosening of the soil, spraying and additional artificial light in the winter (2-3 hours in the morning and evening).
In summer, cherry need to be watered every 3 days, in winter - 1 time per week. Place the tomatoes on the south side — they are thermophilic plants. With the beginning of flowering, feed them with ash or mineral fertilizer (1 tbsp. Per 0,5 l of water). Repeat two more times with an interval of 2 weeks.
Collect the harvest on time, so that the new tomatoes soon ripen, and the plants are fruited longer!