How to prolong the fruiting of tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, cucumbers
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HOW TO EXTEND THE FRUIT OF TOMATOES, EGGPLANTS, PEPPERS, CUCUMBERS AND GET THE MAXIMUM YIELD
© Author: Dmitry Valerievich Skotnikov - ecologist, candidate of biological sciences
With the onset of August, with the use of OZhZ technology, all seedlings - tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and early cabbage - give whole harvest waves.
How to support plants and lengthen the fruiting period - read this article.
RIPE IS DIFFERENT
Paradoxically, there are two types of ripeness for the fruits of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants: technical and biological. The latter is familiar to us for the bright (not green) color of the fruit: there are varieties of pepper and tomato with red, yellow, orange, brown and even purple fruits. Tomatoes can be eaten precisely in biological ripeness, when solanine disappears in them, and sweet peppers can even be eaten green, but better - in technical ripeness.
This stage is characterized for tomatoes and peppers by the blanching of the fruit. If they are collected in this state and stored at room temperature, literally in 5-7 days they will acquire a characteristic color for the variety, that is, they will pass into a state of biological ripeness. So that storage is not overshadowed by rot, plants and ripening fruits are treated with a biological product Fitosporin Golden Autumn before harvesting (2 teaspoons per 10 liters of water - per hundred square meters). It can be processed even after harvest, it is especially convenient with the biological product AntiRot, equipped with a trigger for even spraying - just two clicks on a kilogram of vegetables.
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WHAT VEGETABLES DO WE EAT UNRUPE?
If tomatoes and peppers in biological ripeness are the most delicious and healthy, then it is absolutely absolutely impossible for eggplants to ripen completely. Their fruits become friable and bitter, and the poisonous substance solanine accumulates in them. Collect "blue" should be in the phase of technical ripeness. But how to guess it if the eggplant from the very moment of the ovary is painted in the same color as the overripe one?
The trick is this; when the eggplant fruit stops growing, it can already be cut and used for food.
Delicious eggplants, cut into ribbons and fried in oil, followed by the addition of crushed garlic and spices! Eggplants are rich in B vitamins, potassium, manganese and copper, but in order to saturate the harvest with microelements, it is advisable to help the plants with foliar micronutrients using the Rich-Micro Complex preparation. It is very important to free the bushes of peppers and eggplants from fruits in technical ripeness for the next waves of the harvest, the formation of which is delayed if the ripening ones are not removed. This is especially true for zelents of cucumbers and zucchini, which grow up literally before our eyes!
FEEDING WITH ORGANIC FERTILIZER
To provide the plants of the pumpkin family with the necessary nutrition, including the pumpkin itself, zucchini, cucumbers, squash, melons and watermelons, weekly feeding with liquid organic fertilizer will help.
This can be an infusion of dung or manure with Compostin, as well as a fermented infusion of fresh plant residues with a fermenting biological product HervoZakvass. The addition of these drugs to the infusion is recommended to enrich them with beneficial microorganisms, improve health and better saturation with all the necessary nutrients.
In the case of droppings or manure, fill a 100-liter container by a third with organic fertilizer, add 60 ml of Compostin and bring it to the top with water. In the case of plant residues (cut grass, weeds, tops of cultivated plants, etc.), grind them to pieces of maximum 5 cm in length and place them loosely in a 200-liter container without pressing. As the installation proceeds, we evenly add the biological product GravoZakvass, spending the entire 5-liter pack on such a volume.
It contains the most powerful decomposers of organic matter, the elixir of Gumi, sugar and yeast to start fermentation. We fill all this wealth with warm water so that the grass is drowned. In both cases, liquid fertilizer is prepared for 1-2 weeks, after which it is used in a 10-fold dilution with water for fertilizing irrigation of any crops. But in August we only give it to pumpkin and cabbage, the rest need something else
NO MORE NITROGEN
So for tomatoes, peppers and eggplants, in August the time has come when further growth of the vegetative mass is no longer required - everything should go to the formation and ripening of fruits. Therefore, we stop feeding these plants with fertilizers with a high nitrogen content and focus on phosphorus-potassium supplements.
To do this, before watering, I distribute the soft organic mineral fertilizer Gumi-Omi Autumn on the soil near the stems, after which I carry out surface loosening (3-5 cm deep) and watering. Gumi-Omi is a prolonged-release fertilizer, it is consumed gradually, enriching the soil not only with phosphorus and potassium, but also with nutritious organic matter. A kilogram bag is enough for 10 m. By the way, it is advisable to give such a top dressing to fruit trees, as well as shrubs for the full maturation of young bark and buds on the growths of the current year, which will help them to winter more successfully.
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Pruning and pinning to prolong fruiting
Tomato is perhaps the leader of all cultures in surgical intervention. It begins with the removal of the stepsons, which must be continued in August, then we take up the lower leaves, which are also gradually removed from the bottom up.
The first - back in July - leaves touching the ground leave, then the turn comes to the next, up to the flower brushes. It is absolutely impossible to rush to remove all the leaves at once! They are factories for the production of sugars and other nutrients that are needed for a ripening crop. Therefore, we remove only aging leaves with signs of dying off: they usually change their color, curl or begin to dry out.
At the beginning of August, we pinch the growth points of indeterminate (long) varieties in the open field, and towards the end of the month - in the greenhouse. By doing this, we give them the command to focus all their energies on the ripening of the crop. After any shredding, we treat the plants with a solution of Fitosporin (powder or liquid) in order to prevent infection from penetrating through the wounds. This should be done regularly, at least once every 1 weeks, and with the appearance of morning growth - once a week.
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EXTENDING THE FRUITING OF VEGETABLES – REVIEWS AND TIPS
PEPPERS AND EGGPLANTS WILL BE FRUITING UNTIL NOVEMBER
If peppers and eggplants growing in a greenhouse are pollinated and fed by leaves, the fruits can be collected until autumn. There are other techniques for long-term fruiting. Anyone interested in a fruitful marathon, follow the advice of experts!
Pepper and eggplant are remontant crops that can continuously bloom and bear fruit for many years. This year’s summer was not the most humane for these crops; in some places the harvest is thriving, in others the fruits have just begun to ripen. Therefore, you can try to extend the time frame for their collection. To do this, several steps are required:
Once every two weeks, foliar feeding of plants with urea concentration of no more than 0% is carried out. That is, spray on the leaves - this way the solution is better absorbed.
Use the drug "Infinity", which not only suppresses diseases, but stimulates growth and increased yield.
In the greenhouse, pollinate the plants yourself to continue setting fruit. There are no insects here, so you need to stroke the stigma of the pistil with your fingers, the pollen will fall off, and pollination will occur. And in the open ground insects work on this.
Harvest regularly. Fruits in biological ripeness left on plants age them, making the formation of new ones more difficult. There is no need to wait for the peppers to ripen; you can remove them when the barrel turns brown - the fruits will ripen, and new peppers will grow on the bush. In eggplants, unripe fruits are tastier, so their ovaries can be removed at almost any stage.
It is important that the roots of the plants “breathe”, so regularly loosen the soil to a depth of about 5 cm.
Constant watering is needed, the soil must be moist.
Take care of this in advance
But in general, for long-term fruiting of peppers and eggplants it is important:
- Use varieties of different ripening periods - from the earliest to the latest.
- Use a combination of open ground and various shelters, greenhouses, greenhouses.
IF YOU WANT TO ACCELERATE RIPPING, REMOVE ALL FRUITS THAT HAVE REACHED THE SIZE APPROPRIATE TO THE VARIETY. TO MAKE PEPPERS AND EGGPLANTS ripen faster at the end of the season, you need to remove the flowers, ovaries and small fruits.
- Maintain a high agricultural background from spring and all summer, including regular fertilizing, watering, protection from pests, diseases and weeds, formation, staking of plants, etc.
KEEPING THE PEPPER IN SHAPE
In August, we continue to work on the formation of sweet peppers, especially in the greenhouse: we try to “keep in shape” with two or three stems.
Peppers often suffer from iron deficiency. Symptoms begin with a change in color of the outer leaves to yellow-green (between the veins). The height of the plant decreases, the leaves look drooping. In August, once every two weeks you need to feed the peppers with microelements, including iron.
Pepper fruits often suffer from blossom end rot: depressed spots appear on the side opposite the stalk (at the tip). Such fruits must be removed. Since the problem is caused mainly by a lack of calcium, the peppers must be fed with calcium fertilizer (according to the instructions).
PROTECTING EGGPLANT FROM TICKS
There are a lot of spider mites on the eggplant this year. It is necessary to treat the plants during fruiting with protective biological products, for example, “Fitoverm” or “Extra-Flor” (according to the instructions). The waiting period is 2-3 days, that is, after this time you can pick and eat the fruits.
The “little blue ones” are also plagued by diseases. Verticillium wilt is particularly active: the leaves droop, turn yellow and dry out. In this case, the diseased plant will have to be uprooted and removed from the site.
LET THEM FRESH HANG
Do not rush to remove healthy eggplant bushes from the greenhouse - they can last until November. In September and October they also grow a little. The layer of air in the dome of the polycarbonate greenhouse protects the plants - October and November night frosts do not penetrate it. The fruits on the bushes remain fresh.
© Author: Gregory Monakhos, Ph.D. n., RGAUMSHA im. K. A. Timiryazeva
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I experimented with my favorite eggplants (blue, as they are called by the people). The bottom line is this.
I have a polycarbonate greenhouse. There is a garden bed lined with bricks around the perimeter. I decided to plant Almaz eggplants partly in the greenhouse, partly in this garden. I want to say that the predecessors of eggplants in the garden were courgettes, and cucumbers in the greenhouse. I landed both units at the same time, when the frost was over, on May 25. I put arcs on the garden bed and covered it with agrofibre.
I systematically processed eggplants in the greenhouse against spider mites, since periodically small light dots appeared on the lower leaves.
In the beginning, eggplants grew faster in the greenhouse than in the garden: earlier they laid the buds and bloomed. June this year turned out to be rainy and cool, so the eggplants in the garden were slightly behind in growth, by about two weeks. But at the end of June, with the onset of warm weather, they actively began to grow, and already in mid-July, the first fruits appeared. In August, eggplants in the greenhouse and in the garden bore the same fruit.
During the experiment, I realized that eggplants need to be grown in a greenhouse to get an earlier harvest, regardless of the weather. And in the garden they actively bear fruit, do not suffer from spider mites, but require warm, sunny weather and protection from the Colorado potato beetle.
I wish all summer residents good health, new discoveries and good harvests!
Irina
I experimented with my favorite eggplants (blue, as they are called by the people). The bottom line is this.
I have a polycarbonate greenhouse. There is a garden bed lined with bricks around the perimeter. I decided to plant Almaz eggplants partly in the greenhouse, partly in this garden. I want to say that the predecessors of eggplants in the garden were courgettes, and cucumbers in the greenhouse. I landed both units at the same time, when the frost was over, on May 25. I put arcs on the garden bed and covered it with agrofibre.
I systematically processed eggplants in the greenhouse against spider mites, since periodically small light dots appeared on the lower leaves.
In the beginning, eggplants grew faster in the greenhouse than in the garden: earlier they laid the buds and bloomed. June this year turned out to be rainy and cool, so the eggplants in the garden were slightly behind in growth, by about two weeks. But at the end of June, with the onset of warm weather, they actively began to grow, and already in mid-July, the first fruits appeared. In August, eggplants in the greenhouse and in the garden bore the same fruit.
During the experiment, I realized that eggplants need to be grown in a greenhouse to get an earlier harvest, regardless of the weather. And in the garden they actively bear fruit, do not suffer from spider mites, but require warm, sunny weather and protection from the Colorado potato beetle.
I wish all summer residents good health, new discoveries and good harvests!
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