Tomato "Krakus"

* EARLY TOMATO HARVEST.
All the power is in the roots.
If the tomato root system is well developed, the bushes are strong and grow quickly. The easiest way to increase the volume of the root system is to deepen most of the seedling stem when planting. This can be done with tall (indeterminate) varieties and hybrids, in which the first inflorescence appears high - in the axil of the 7-9th leaf. If you deepen low-growing (superdeterminate) or medium-sized (determinate) tomatoes, the inflorescences will end up on the ground.
From two plants - one.
To increase the strength of medium-sized tomatoes, you can graft by merging the stems of 2 plants during the seedling period, and then remove one of them above the grafting site. In this case, the tomato, using a larger feeding area, reacts less to sudden changes in environmental conditions, and yields a crop earlier than usual. The fruits are more uniform in size, ripen faster and almost simultaneously on the brush, which increases the overall yield of the plant.
Grafting of tomatoes (determinate and determinate) should be carried out after at least 4-5 well-developed leaves have formed on the plants.
The higher the grafting is done, the greater the distance between the root systems can be, which means greater opportunities for better vegetation are created. In the center of the internodes, opposite each other, a strip of the stem is cut 1/3 of the diameter wide and about 4 cm long.
You can use any cutting tool, the main thing is that it is very sharp and clean. The blade should smoothly enter the tissue at a slight angle, then parallel to the spine of the stem pass a section of about 2.5-3 cm and smoothly exit, leaving no burrs or roughness on the cuts. After this, without delay, it is necessary to connect the cuts, carefully wrap them with bast, and then with a film strip. After fusion (about 1.5-2 weeks), carefully, in 2 stages (with an interval of 3-5 days), completely cut off the upper part of the unnecessary plant, which can be rooted if desired, after which the bandage is removed. When planting grafted plants in the ground, it should be taken into account that the grafting site may be fragile. With a wide spread of root systems, it is recommended to temporarily wrap this place with bast so that the plant tissue does not tear. The removed part of the plant can be completely rooted in water, but its upper part about 10 cm long takes root easier. Overgrown mounds can also be used as cuttings. The cut on the rooted shoots should be at a right angle to the axis. The shoots are planted in a loose nutrient substrate, when planting, the petioles of the leaves are not deepened. If they need to be removed, the operation is carried out 2-3 days before planting so that the damaged areas heal (so that the shoots do not die during this time, the tips are placed in water).
For reliable rooting, the cuts before planting must be updated and powdered with charcoal or some kind of root formation and growth stimulator (Heteroauxin, Kornevin, Kornerost, etc.).