Eggplant grazing
Eggplant is a whimsical culture. Growing it requires proper care. One of the conditions is eggplant pinching. It helps to increase productivity. It is necessary to graze eggplants in the open ground and in the greenhouse, observing a number of rules.
Eggplant grazing
Recommendations
The process of pinching is understood to mean the removal of lateral shoots and partially leaves. This allows you to form, strengthen the bush, increase the size and quality of the fruit.
The pinching scheme is specific for nightshades. Growing eggplants is characterized by the formation of dense green parts of the plant with a large number of lateral shoots. The forces and nutrients of the plant go to the growing season, the expansion of the bush, and the development of fruits is suspended.
The fruits become small and deformed. Their palatability deteriorates. In severe cases, the ovaries do not ripen, they fall off.
Correctly pinch the eggplants until the buds appear. It is important to pluck the shoots in time to prevent them from overgrowing.
Patching is carried out so that the ovaries, fruits are well illuminated by the sun. Solanaceous stepchildren in the morning: so they have time to restore damage before the temperature drops in the evening.
Before forming, the bushes are tied up: from a large number of fruits, the stem bends. The wire is pulled along the bed over the plantings. A rope is tied to it, which is attached to the stem, raising it.
On the open ground, eggplant stepchildren are rarely removed, since mainly low-growing and hybrid varieties are planted. Tall species do not grow large due to not always suitable outdoor conditions.
Constant ventilation prevents moisture from accumulating in the green area. A small number of stepsons appear on the bushes or they are absent.
The cultivation of such varieties is facilitated by self-formation. They are corrected already during the development of the ovaries to transfer the plant to the fruiting stage by thinning, removing weak ovaries.
Formation into one stem
Stepchildren need to be removed once a week
The one-stem formation scheme is used outdoors when growing vegetables in a humid southern climate. The greenhouse culture most of all needs pinching in this way. An increase in humidity and temperature in greenhouses leads to the growth of bushes.
A 1-stem scheme is necessary when the crop has a weak stem that cannot handle large amounts of vegetables. It is used when the growing place of the vegetable is limited and when growing a tall variety.
You need to pinch the eggplants like this:
- Pinch off the top of the stem when it reaches a height of 30 cm;
- Remove the upper shoots after the lateral ones grow, leave 1 ovary each.
- Every 7 days, remove excess leaves and stepchildren on the branches.
- Remove flowers, apex, small ovaries a month before the cold snap: they do not have time to ripen, but inhibit the development of large fruits.
Small green parts of the bush should be removed manually, without the use of tools. This prevents injury to the vegetable, infection.Large branches are cut with shears, the cut points are processed.
Grasshopping in several stems
According to the scheme of 2 or more stems, eggplants are predominantly pinned in the greenhouse. It is effective at varying degrees of neglect of plantations. The pinching procedure is carried out when the plant is large, strong.
Eggplant should be grazed like this:
- Pinch off the tops when the young bush reaches a height of 30 cm.
- Leave 2 strong stepsons.
- In the place where the stem is divided into 2 branches, pinch off the small one.
- Leave 1 fruit on the shoots.
In hot and damp weather, it is imperative to remove excess lower stepchildren: they contribute to an increase in root moisture and the development of viral and fungal infections. In excessively dry air, shoots close to the ground are left.
It is necessary to pinch the tall eggplants growing in the greenhouse, according to the scheme:
- Zone 1 - bottom 3-4 knots. Removal of ovaries, shoot rudiments.
- Zone 2 - nodes 5 to 7. Trimming only the cobs of the stepsons.
- Zone 3 - next 3 links. Pinching shoots keeping 1 leaf each with ovary.
- Zone 4 - part of the plant from 11th branch to the end. Pinching of lateral shoots keeping 2 leaves with ovaries on each.
The upper shoots are left if they do not shade the bush. Each can grow 3 ovaries. The rest are removed. The main stem is attached to the wire, fixed on the trellis.
Conclusion
Pinching alone will not provide high yields. The method works in conjunction with indicators of the optimal temperature 20 ° C-35 ° C, humidity 65-70% and the duration of daylight hours from 10 to 14 hours.