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  1. A. BYKADOROV Rostov-on-Don

    Many gardeners try to grow huge, weighing more than 1 kg, tomato fruits Russian size. I also made this attempt several times and realized that in order to fill them, the plant needs to be very well fed. However, I didn’t want to water the garden with synthetic fertilizers. And this is what I came up with.

    I sowed one seed in peat pots with a diameter of 10 cm: one tomato Russian size and two - Volgogradets. Seedlings were grown, as usual, for three and a half weeks. When the seedlings grew three true leaves, I carefully cut off small sections of the skin on each stem (at the same level), joined the cut points together and wrapped the stems with adhesive tape.
    After two weeks, the tomatoes grew together, and I cut off the stems of the Volgogradets tomato above the grafting site (they can be rooted in the sand). The Russian size ultimately remained on three “legs”.
    In mid-April, I planted the seedlings, which already had seven true leaves, in an unheated greenhouse. At the beginning of May, powerful bushes produced two clusters. I removed the remaining brushes so that they would not draw nutrients onto themselves, and the established heat interfered with the pollination of new flowers. Watered moderately. Since the ridges had been filled with manure-bulk and caliphos (a type of fertilizer - Ed.) since the fall, during the fruit-filling period I fed the tomatoes only with a solution of magnesium and boron salts. At the same time, the bushes looked good, because the “chicken legs” actively nourished the above-ground parts.

    As a result, I got five fruits from each bush, weighing 1-1,5 kg each. And on tomatoes, where I left 1-2 ovaries, the fruits gained almost 3 kg.

    That’s all the wisdom and no “chemistry”.

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