When planting tomatoes, vegetable growers will remove the side branches of the tomatoes in time to prevent the waste of nutrients made by the leaves, so as to ensure that the nutrients produced by the leaves are concentrated to supply the growth of the main branch fruits. However, many vegetable growers simply remove their collaterals. As a result, due to improper methods of evacuation, the yield of tomatoes is affected. How to properly handle tomato collaterals is described below:

First of all, tomato collaterals cannot be removed prematurely. It has been proved that when the tomato side branch is too small, the nutrition it produces is greater than the nutrient consumed, so it should not be eliminated at this time, especially when the leaves of the plant do not completely cover the ground. In order to make full use of the side branches to produce nutrition, it is advisable to remove the side branches at a length of about 5cm. For the first branch of the lower part of each flower of the tomato, it should be removed as early as possible, and should be removed when the length is about 3cm. If the first side branch of the lower part of the flower per ear of the tomato is not removed in time, its growth will soon exceed that of the main branch, and a large amount of nutrients will be wasted.

Second, the removal of tomato collateral can not be too late. If the tomato lateral branches are removed too late and the collaterals are longer than 5 cm, they will compete vigorously with the main branch for nutrients and the growth will gradually exceed the main branch. Lateral branching and sparseness will also cause aging of the phloem of the lateral branch. Since the lateral branch and the phloem of the main branch are closely connected, the epidermis of the main branch is easily broken when the lateral branch is removed, which affects the growth of the tomato.

In addition, when removing lateral branches of tomatoes, piles should not be left to prevent re-emergence of lateral branches from the same leaf.

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