The best ways to pollinate tomatoes in a greenhouse.

When growing tomatoes at home on a windowsill or in a greenhouse, the question often arises of how to ensure that the vegetables are pollinated. In order for the tomato crop to be rich and high-quality pollination must take place properly. If pollination does not occur completely, or does not occur at all, then gardeners help the tomatoes by hand. At the same time, pollination of tomatoes in the greenhouse can be both artificial and natural.

Is it necessary to pollinate tomatoes in the greenhouse?

Everyone has long known that the amount of the crop directly depends on how the pollination was carried out. If it is bad, then the harvest will be meager, but the better pollination is carried out, the greater the yield will be. If you grow tomatoes at home on a windowsill, then they will definitely have to be pollinated artificially. In order for the harvest to be large, all the conditions necessary for it must be created for it. You need proper lighting, proper watering and all the necessary fertilizing. With manual pollination, several methods should be carried out, it is simply necessary for the plants to grow well and develop actively.

In order for each bush of the plant to give a greater yield, it is necessary that the ovary be as large as possible. Very often, gardeners are faced with the fact that the flowers and the ovary simply fall off, but there may be several reasons for this, and knowing them, everyone will understand why this happened with his plant: it is possible that there is a lot of ovary on your bush. The bush simply does not cope, it is hard for him and from this he simply drops flowers.

• It is possible that the seedling is simply not enough light.
• When there is too much nitrogen in the ground, the bush also throws off absolutely the entire ovary.
• Often inflorescences and ovaries fall off when the tomatoes are planted from the seeds themselves.
• Very often, the cause of the falling off of the ovary can be some kind of fungal disease.

Pollination of tomatoes in a greenhouse: video

Self-pollinated varieties are very common in tomatoes. Flowers from one bush can pollinate a lot of plants around them. But for the current pollination for the bush, you need to create all the conditions it needs.

Fruits may never set on bushes if the climate is not suitable for growing tomatoes. Thus: if the air temperature is below +13 degrees, then the structure of the pollen changes, respectively, the plants will not be able to self-pollinate.

Also, in the heat above +30 degrees, the flowers just simply fall off, and completely everything, leaving no chance for pollination.

If the humidity is increased, then the plants not only run the risk of becoming infected with the fungus, but the pollen does not scatter at all, therefore, independent pollination cannot occur.

In any case, if the climate is not suitable for growing tomatoes, then there is no chance of harvesting. Tomatoes are generally very picky plants for the environment, and if there is even the slightest deviation from the norm, then the entire ovary from the bushes completely falls off.

In order for tomatoes to be able to safely independently pollinate, they need to create all the necessary conditions for this: you must always control and regulate the required air temperature.

Pollination of tomatoes in a greenhouse: photo

In order to normalize the humidity, you need to reduce or, on the contrary, increase the number of irrigations.

If the humidity is high, despite the amount of watering, the soil around the bush should be mulched. Dry sawdust, straw and so on are well suited for this.

At the time when the bush begins to bloom, and top dressing still needs to be applied, this should be done as carefully as possible and while using as little potassium as possible.

When tomatoes grow in a greenhouse, in order for them to be pollinated either naturally or artificially in the heat, you need to arrange a draft in the greenhouse so that the pollen scatters as best as possible. Or you can just open the vents and send bees and bumblebees there.

If it is not possible to regulate the ventilation of the greenhouse, then for such a case there are automatic vents. And in order for the insects to fly into the greenhouse on their own, you can attract them by putting sugar syrup in the greenhouse or plant (in extreme cases, just bring) such plants that attract bees with their smell. Natural pollination is always better than artificial pollination.

The amount of the crop directly depends on pollination. If it does not happen, then all the flowers will simply fall off, and there will be no ovary. In order to pollinate plants on your own, there are only two ways, natural and artificial.

Natural pollination

Natural pollination of tomatoes in the greenhouse: photo

With natural pollination of greenhouse tomatoes or potted bushes, there are only three ways: 1. It is to attract the necessary insects. When your tomatoes grow under the cling film, they need to create all the necessary conditions. To attract bees to this place, it is necessary to plant nearby such plants and flowers that have a sweet and pleasant smell. Or in the entire territory of the greenhouse you need to place containers with syrup, to which all the bees will just as successfully flock.

You can also spray all plants with sweet syrup, this will also attract bees.

Airing the greenhouse is also a very effective way. Due to the draft, the pollen will scatter throughout the greenhouse and qualitatively pollinate the plants.

Also, in addition to bees, tomatoes and bumblebees are very good at pollination, and in some cases they work even better.

Artificial pollination

Artificial pollination of tomatoes in a greenhouse: photo

But artificial pollination of tomatoes in a greenhouse is carried out when the plant itself cannot get dusty. It is also required when tomatoes are grown at home on a windowsill. And this can be done in several ways. You can just shake the plants well and the pollen can fly safely and quickly. This method is very convenient because pollination takes place very quickly.

You can also pollinate tomatoes in a greenhouse with a simple brush with a soft bristle. The main thing is to carry out this procedure carefully, transferring pollen from flower to flower using a simple brush with a soft bristle. It is very important not to damage the flower itself.

You can create an artificial draft with a fan or other available means.

There is also a very unusual way. In general, gardeners are very resourceful people, so some of them have adapted to carry out manual pollination using an electric toothbrush. It must be carefully brought to each flower and, with the help of vibration, re-pollination occurs.

The main thing is to correctly identify those flowers that have not been pollinated. In non-pollinated flowers, the petals are closed, but when they are already pollinated, the petals are bent outward.

Artificial pollination should be carried out several times with an interval of at least three days. This work is always done only in the morning, and the weather at this time should be dry and warm.

After you have carried out manual pollination, the tomatoes need to be watered, and the greenhouse itself must be opened for airing.

Means for pollination of tomatoes in the greenhouse

Also, in order to pollinate tomatoes in a greenhouse, tomatoes can be treated with a spray bottle with special preparations that can be purchased at a gardening store. In order to set as many fruits as possible after pollination, after the procedure, it is necessary to carry out treatment with such solutions as: boric acid.10 grams of the drug must be diluted in 10 liters of practically boiling water. After the powder has dissolved, and the solution itself has cooled, the tomato bushes must be sprayed with a spray bottle.

A drug such as Gibberros has a very good effect on tomatoes at a time when they are actively blooming.

After the procedure, treatment with such a preparation as "Ovary" helps. It stimulates the plant very well to develop as many fruits as possible.

"Tomaton" this drug helps fruit to set well when the weather is cold and damp and they cannot do it on their own.

Also, such a drug as "Bud" copes with this task perfectly.

How to pollinate tomatoes in a greenhouse?

To grow a decent tomato crop, you need to know all the nuances. Observe proper care and create the climate necessary for them. If everything is done correctly, then ripe and high-quality fruits in large quantities will not be long in coming.

In general, pollination is practically the main condition in growing tomatoes. Therefore, it is in the greenhouse that especially great attention should be paid to this process. Although tomatoes are self-pollinated plants, which have enough of their own pollen in order to form the required amount of ovary. And the ovary, as you know, appears from a flower, and the plant itself can pollinate it. At a time when the seedlings begin to bloom, you need to very closely monitor the climate in the greenhouse, and this is done so that the fruits develop actively, as they should.

Pollination of tomatoes in a greenhouse: useful video

Before starting to pollinate tomatoes in a greenhouse, they just need to create the conditions that they just need. After all, it depends on what conditions the pollination will take place, how the fruits will be tied.
In a bad climate, instead of forming an ovary, the flowers may simply fall off, and for this there are several reasons that gardeners very often face: there may be little light for tomatoes.

The bushes have formed too many inflorescences, and they simply cannot cope. In this case, it is better to simply remove some flowers so as not to lose the entire future harvest.

If you planted seedlings from self-collected seeds. Very often, the seeds collected from hybrid varieties grow well, the bushes are actively developing, but they will not give any more harvest.

Flowers can also fall off due to the fact that the tomatoes have become infected with some kind of fungal disease, but outwardly this is not yet noticeable, but the plant itself already gives such a reaction.

With a lack of proper feeding, the plant also sheds inflorescences. With a lack of proper nutrition, the plants simply do not have enough strength to form an ovary and form the fruit of a tomato.

When tomato bushes grow outdoors, pollination is easier and there is no point in interfering with this process. After all, there is enough wind and the necessary insects for this process on the street. But for those growing in a greenhouse, this is a completely different question. After all, pollination there directly depends on the person.

When tomatoes are grown at a time when there are simply no insects, and it is simply impossible to ventilate the greenhouse. Any gardener, regardless of his experience, is simply obliged to think in advance about how exactly he will pollinate his plants.

There are enough methods for this, the main thing is to create the necessary climate.