It is very difficult to find a garden plot that does not have tomatoes among other crops. Today there are several thousand varieties of tomatoes. Tomatoes are grown in a seedless and seedling way. The technology of growing seedlings does not differ in complexity, but it requires the vegetable grower to comply with certain rules.

Types and varieties of tomatoes

First of all, you need to choose a tomato variety for cultivation in the garden that meets your own tastes and requirements. Tomatoes differ in fruit size, they can be:

  • small-fruited (Cherry, Mirabel);
  • moderately fertile (Martina, Volgogradets);
  • plum (Roma);
  • large-fruited (pink Bovine heart).

Cherry

Tomato bushes can be tall or short. The former are grown on trellises, the latter do not need a garter and support.

Important!Not all tomatoes are suitable for preservation, some are used only for consumption raw.

There are varieties that are grown for making tomato juice and pasta.

Conditions for growing seedlings

Seedling tomato

Tomato seedlings can be grown independently at home. To do this, you need to have:

  • a suitable window sill;
  • seedling boxes;
  • ready-made soil;
  • high-quality seed.

Seedlings should be planted on time. For crops, you need to provide a suitable temperature regime and timely watering.

Why tomato seedlings fall and wither

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Even experienced vegetable growers are often faced with the fact that young shoots suddenly begin to wither and turn yellow. And although there are many reasons for this, they can all be divided into two main groups:

  • improper care;
  • disease.

Improper watering

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Young seedlings really need a sufficient amount of moisture and light. They need to be watered regularly with a spray bottle. The soil in the seedling box should be moist and loose. It is necessary to water so that the soil in the container does not turn into a swamp. In such conditions, the roots of plants will begin to rot, and the sprout will wither.

Important! If the leaves on the seedlings have withered and faded, you need to check if the drainage holes in the pots are clogged. Perhaps excess water accumulates in the container and its excess has caused the sprouts to wilt.

If the soil in the pots is constantly wet, increase the size of the drainage holes and reduce the number of waterings.

Lack of moisture

If the plant is watered infrequently, why does the tomato seedlings wither and fall? Young shoots can wither, including from a lack of moisture. The fact that plants do not have enough water is indicated by dry crumbling soil in containers and yellowed leaves on seedlings. In such conditions, the plants begin to dry out.

Rolling the leaves

To rectify the situation, it is enough to increase the number of waterings. It often happens that in a too hot room the soil in the seedling boxes and pots dries out too quickly, and the beginning grower does not water the plants more often than prescribed in the manual. In this case, you need to water the plants as needed, as soon as the soil dries slightly.

Important! Seedlings are watered only from a spray bottle.It is impossible to water weak sprouts from a mug, so they can be damaged or overfilled.

High room temperature

Seedling boxes should not be placed close to heat sources. High temperatures will negatively affect the condition of the seedlings.

For seedlings, window sills and well-lit shelving are fine. Do not put them next to the battery on the floor or near the stove.

Drafts

Seedlings are very fond of fresh air, so the room where they grow should be regularly ventilated. When opening the window, you need to make sure that a draft does not form in the room.

On a note.Cold air currents are harmful to seedlings. Seedlings caught in drafts begin to ache and dry, they have a sluggish look. The edges of the leaves are folded.

Eliminating this cause is easy enough. To save the plants, you just need to take out the boxes with seedlings from the room during the airing.

Dense sowing

During sowing, seeds should be placed at a sufficient distance from each other. This is a very important condition that can further affect the development and growth of tomato bushes. Sowing too thick leads to a lack of nutrients.

After the appearance of two or three full-fledged leaves on the shoots, the plants must be seated in separate cups. When sowing too densely, the seedlings are weak. After transplanting, such shoots are poorly accepted, look lethargic, their top and leaves are drooping.

It is difficult to transplant it, the roots of neighboring plants are intertwined so that it is impossible to untangle them without damaging them. This is the answer to the question of why tomatoes wither and die after a pick.

Tomato seedlings wither and wither in the greenhouse

It often happens that perfectly healthy seedlings transplanted into a greenhouse are poorly accepted and wither.

There are several reasons for this:

  • shoots are transplanted too early, before 2-3 full leaves appear;
  • it's too hot in the greenhouse;
  • larvae of harmful insects live in the greenhouse soil;
  • during transplantation, the plant roots were mechanically damaged.

In order to prevent the death of planting material, the soil in greenhouses and greenhouses must be treated in advance from pests and infections. It is necessary to start doing preventive cleaning of greenhouse shelters and tillage immediately after harvesting the remnants of fruiting plants.

The contaminated soil is completely removed from the greenhouse and steamed soil is introduced instead. Immediately before planting seedlings, cool boiling water is poured into each prepared hole in an amount of 2 to 5 liters. Then the beds can be treated with a slightly pink manganese solution.

Note! If the plants begin to wilt due to too high a temperature inside the shelter, you need to open the vents or the door. At the same time, care must be taken that drafts that are harmful to weak and small shoots do not form in the greenhouse. Otherwise, sprouts steamed in a hot room, cooled by a stream of cold air, will begin to disappear.

The seedlings will begin to wither and die if water is poured into the ground. The root system, flooded with water, rots and the plant can completely disappear. To regulate the amount of moisture in the soil, drip irrigation can be done in greenhouses. The liquid supplied by such a system will be enough to ensure the normal development of plants.

Why do tomato seedlings die after a pick

One of the most common factors affecting the poor condition of young tomato shoots in the ground is mechanical damage to their root system during transplantation. In such plants, the top with leaves has a stunted appearance and can completely fall off. After a while, the sluggish sprout will dry out completely.

Important! When replanting seedlings, you need to remove the roots from the seedling box along with a lump of soil. A few hours before transplanting, the soil in containers with shoots is poured abundantly with water.

It is even more convenient to plant plants that have been sown for seedlings in special peat cubes or pots. Such a container is lowered into the hole along with the sprout.

Picking tomatoes

The reasons for wilting for plants planted in open beds are almost the same as for greenhouse plants. The difference is that with early planting, young shoots can wither after spring night frosts. To prevent this from happening, tomato beds need to be provided with temporary shelter.

Pests of tomato beds

Young tomato sprouts in open beds and in greenhouses can be eaten up by harmful insects:

  • beetle larvae;
  • bear.

Pests eat the lower part of the stem and roots of the seedling, after which it withers and dries up. In this case, only special preparations can help, the action of which is aimed at exterminating harmful insects. The sprouts gnawed by the bear and the larvae cannot be saved.

For this reason, in order not to ask questions later why the tomato seedlings planted in the ground wither, it is important to carry out prevention and exterminate pests in advance before planting vegetable crops in the beds.

Diseases of tomato seedlings

Plants on the windowsill can have a wilted appearance due to infectious diseases. It is quite easy to save seedlings that wither due to improper irrigation or a draft. To do this, you just need to adjust the number of irrigations and move the boxes to another place. It is much more difficult to treat seedlings infected with pathogenic fungi or bacteria.

The most common diseases of tomato seedlings:

  • blackleg,
  • fusarium.

Note! Infection can get into the room along with poorly prepared soil. For this reason, the soil purchased from the store must be burned out and treated with antiseptics. None of the infections dangerous to tomatoes can withstand high temperatures.

You can try to save plants affected by an infectious disease. How to do it? To do this, they need to be sprayed with a solution of antiseptics and transplanted into the treated soil.