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Re: more tomato questions

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 11:25:02 -0700, you wrote:

>Hi Andre,
>
>> strong tomato plants. Tomatoes need 1 or 2 transplantations. When you
>> put them outside, don't give them water but wait a couple of days. Let
>> them lay down as though they were withered. Then you can give them
>> plenty of water. In this way the first couple of days the plants will
>> search for water themselves and develop a good root structure. Pay
>
>Hmmm.  I beg to differ on this point.  In my experience watering in tomato
>transplants well /and/ feeding them with a weak fish/seaweed fertilizer
>encourages healthy and rapid top and root growth.  You see, you may have
>fantastically nutritious soil but the starts can't access much of that resource
>until they've grown roots into it.  By boosting root development at transplant
>time with seaweed, or just water for that matter, your seedlings will maintain
>and increase their growth momentum with the least amount of impedance.
>
>Cheers
>
>   ____________________
>  |                    |
>  |     Bob Carter     | Kootenay Bay
>  |  bcarter@awinc.com | BC, Canada
>  |____________________|
>
>
>Time is natures way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

Hi Bob,

To leave tomato plants a couple of days without water when
transplanting into soil, is a method used by commercial growers for
growing tomatoes in greenhouses. I have a friend who uses this method
already for a long time with very good results. This year I will give
it a try also.


-- 
Andre Vanheddeghem
Belgium
andrev@unicall.be
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