Spring frost grabbed the tomatoes will survive or not. Tasty Garden Tasty Garden: What to do if tomatoes are frozen. Gardener's advice

Any gardener seeks to plant seedlings early when warm weather is established in order to get a richer harvest. In the spring, quite often, the weather changes dramatically, and low temperatures capable of destroying any strong seedlings. Is it possible to help, save the plants, if. Of course, you can try to buy new seedlings and plant them again. However, there is no guarantee that the purchased seedlings will give a good harvest.

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frozen seedlings

How can you try to save your seedlings?

Tomatoes have an amazing ability to revive and seedlings can be restored in several ways.

Processing "Epin"

This drug is able to increase the immunity of vegetables, especially when stressful situations. A solution for treating frozen plants is prepared according to the instructions: dilute one Epin ampoule in 5 liters of water, mix thoroughly and slightly acidify the mixture with several crystals citric acid. Spraying is carried out early in the morning or late in the evening after sunset on calm days. It's just that the active substance of the biostimulant epibrassinolide quickly disappears under the influence of sunlight. Spraying is carried out not only all parts of the plant, but also the soil under the bush. The drug is absorbed by the plant within 2-3 days.

Re-treatment is carried out after 7-10 days until the culture is completely recovered. ?

Moreover, the treatment with "Epin" is carried out in any cases that cause plant stress: drought, diseases, lack of light. And it applies to everyone vegetable crops. And even healthy plants can be treated with Epin three times a season, which leads to an increase in yield.

pouring water

With frosts down to -6-7 degrees, the stems of tomatoes become icy, and in this case it is almost impossible to restore the seedlings. You can buy seeds of ultra-early tomato, and thus provide yourself with delicious tomatoes.

If the frost was small, and the temperature did not fall below -2-3 degrees, then frozen plants can be saved by dousing. The plant should return the lost moisture in order to normalize sap flow. For this, pouring cold water before sunrise so that drops hang on the villi of the tomato. After dousing, do not touch the plants so that the water does not roll off the plant.

It is important to use water from natural sources: rivers, streams, wells, ponds, lakes. Tap water that has been treated can damage the plant due to harmful impurities in its composition.

pruning

If the tomato seedlings are frozen, then you should not immediately destroy it. It is difficult to judge the death of a plant visually and it is worth giving a chance to tomatoes. Therefore, a bush is cut with a sharp knife to the level of the soil, they are built above this place on open garden microgreenhouse and be sure to feed under the root with a solution of manure or urea. Now you need to wait for the appearance of stepchildren, who are quite capable of giving a good harvest, which will be a little later. Of course, this method is used for deep planting of tomatoes and when there are healthy roots.

Shelter from the sun

So only slightly wilted seedlings are saved. Such plants cover until sunrise big chunks cardboard. In addition, it is imperative that the wilted plants be additionally treated with Epin. Seedlings sheltered from the sun will slowly warm up, thawing, and the moisture from the plant will not quickly evaporate.

If part of the shoots has turned black, then they are cut off and fed with urea ( Matchbox to a bucket of water).

Methods for sheltering a tomato from frost

It is better to worry about sheltering seedlings than to nurse them later. Experienced summer residents have many secrets on how to save seedlings from the spring cold.

These are bonfires kindled next to plants, the smoke of which protects from low temperatures. Dry grass or manure is used for fuel. Bonfires are usually used in open beds. A fire in a greenhouse can damage it. For greenhouses, you can use special heating tablets. They are also used for heating plants on open field if over the landings stretch a plastic film over the arcs.
Many use frost protection. carton boxes covering plants. But plastic bottles serve as poor protection, especially if the plant is already large.
Hilling seedlings with earth helps, covering the plant as much as possible.
Can be covered with agrofibre. In addition, building roofing material keeps heat very well. Caps are rolled up from its pieces and placed over a tomato bush. And it’s easy to store such caps by stacking them on top of each other to use in the next seasons.
Mulching plantings with peat or straw helps tomatoes survive frosts.

Do not despair if, try to help her using all the ways. In addition, keep an eye on the weather forecast and try to cover the plants well with all available methods.

Even knowing that tomatoes are characterized by very weak cold resistance, a rare gardener does not strive to plant seedlings of this crop a week or two earlier. After all early harvest- the most valuable and most expected, and its receipt directly depends on the timing of landing. However, the consequence of such unjustified haste is the freezing of tomatoes in the garden and even in the greenhouse. Let's see how you can reanimate frost-affected plants.

Tomatoes are frozen ... What to do?

Tomatoes "killed" by the cold

Tomato plants are seriously damaged if they fall under frosts of only -1 ... -2 degrees. At the same time, lowering the temperature to -6 degrees is fatal for crop seedlings - in this case, no resuscitation measures will save your green pets.

In the frosty air, thousands and thousands of tiny hairs stand on end on the stems and leaves of tomatoes, and small drops of moisture accumulate on each of them. This is the response of plants to cold stress, it is designed to help activate their immunity. Water, as it were, creates a kind of protective shell on the skin, which to some extent prevents the cooling of the internal tissues of tomatoes.

So, in the morning you opened the newly planted seedlings and found on it all the signs of hypothermia listed above. What can be done in such a sad situation?

First, pour the soil around the tomato bushes with cool water, being careful not to wash off the droplets of water condensate that performs protective function. Secondly, without touching the plants, shade them from the morning sun - for example, set arcs above them, over which carefully throw a dark film or agrofibre. Third, once your tomatoes have warmed up a bit, it makes sense to spray them with a solution that will help restore the roots' ability to extract water from the soil and nutrients. To prepare it for 10 liters of water, add one milliliter (that is, a whole cap) of cytovit and zircon.

How to protect tomatoes from upcoming frosts

Frost damaged tomato leaf

Of course, it is better not to initially create such cold tests for heat-loving tomatoes, because this inevitably and significantly reduces the potential yield of plants. It is easier and more logical to take care of the protection of the planted seedlings in advance if frost threatens in the weather forecast.

And in this case, your next steps will depend on where you grow tomatoes - in a greenhouse, greenhouse or in an open garden.

In open ground, tomatoes will endure even significant temperature drops (down to -6 degrees at night, and up to +2 ... On top of the film, it is also desirable to sketch cardboard, old outerwear, blankets and other rags. Moreover, such a shelter can not be removed until heat returns to your area. If mild frosts are expected (up to -2 degrees maximum), then even caps from ordinary newspapers will reliably protect tomatoes - just do not forget to generously sprinkle their edges with soil to cut off the path of frosty air to your plants.
Greenhouse tomatoes are also very easy to save from sudden frosts - just throw any available rags over the frames. If a strong north wind blows during the day, then such a heater can not be removed at all. And when the temperature rises above + 10 degrees, it is recommended to open the plants for a couple - three hours a day - this will contribute to their hardening.
Oddly enough, but most of all from return frosts suffer tomato plants grown in greenhouse conditions. First, the positive difference between greenhouse/greenhouse and outdoor temperatures is driven by solar activity. However, it is much more difficult to heat a spacious greenhouse room than a compact greenhouse. Secondly, the high walls of the greenhouse structure are in contact with cold air, which causes it to cool even faster. And finally, thirdly, there may be gaps between the foundation and the walls of the greenhouse, thanks to which the night cold will freely penetrate into the room. Therefore, you should not think that growing tomatoes in a greenhouse relieves you of responsibility; on the contrary, in such situations, try to hide them under arcs in advance and cover them with any handy materials - film, rags, etc. By the way, water containers only help if you worry about additional shelter for the planted seedlings.

How to protect tomato seedlings from recurrent frosts in the open field, I suggest watching a short video.

Hardened Tomatoes = Healthy Tomatoes

Hardening off tomato seedlings makes them less susceptible to cold, heat, and wind. Keep in mind that it is necessary to harden not only those plants that you plan to grow in an open garden, but also those intended for planting in a greenhouse, and even more so in a greenhouse.

Direct contact with the sun and the breeze is only beneficial for young tomato bushes. Hardening measures should be started very carefully and gradually, bringing the plants to Fresh air at first only for 2-3 hours in cloudless weather and only for 1-2 hours on windy days. Over time, it will be possible to fearlessly leave plants under open sky and for the whole day.

landed on permanent place, hardy seedlings will not only be easier to get used to new living conditions, but will also be able to endure a short matinee down to -2 degrees without any solid shelters without much damage to themselves.

If for some reason it was not possible to grow your own tomato seedlings, then when buying plants, you should try to choose specimens with well-developed, slightly wrinkled foliage, but a narrow, thick main stem and developed fibrous roots.

Plants with hanging "ears" with pale, light green stems most likely did not undergo any hardening and were not fed properly. But also tall seedlings with dark green wide leaves should be bypassed - although it was fertilized with “mineral water”, it was not hardened at all.

Of course, often the choice of a summer resident is limited and one has to be content with what market sellers offer. Then you can try to gradually strengthen the purchased seedlings by placing them for a while in an unheated greenhouse. As soon as the temperature "overboard" exceeds +10 degrees, start to slowly open the plants. It is better to start with a half-hour exposure, because you do not know in what conditions the seedlings developed before. Every day, increase the duration of the hardening procedures by an hour, while making sure that the plants do not break from strong wind and they weren't roasted in the midday sun. After a week of such manipulations, you will have at your disposal quite viable, hardened tomatoes, ready for planting in a permanent place.

So it happens from year to year with many gardeners that they manage to freeze the seedlings! Despite the fact that, and how to protect seedlings from recurrent frosts.

And here again a flurry of questions rained down about whether it is now possible to save the frozen seedlings or is that all!

Today we will talk about emergency methods of resuscitation of frozen plants. I hope this information is useful to many...

If it so happened that the seedlings were frozen, then you should not give up. Yes! It's a pity of course: so much work and money invested! And it may not be possible to save everyone, but you need to try! Of course, for the rich, this is not a problem - he went and bought new seedlings. But not everyone has such an opportunity, and purchased seedlings can always disappoint or surprise in the future.

But frozen seedlings should not be rushed to throw away. The first rule for saving the dying, whether it be: frost, heat, lack of light, temperature changes or illness, is to spray the plants with Epin.

It is useful to spray young plants with Epin, as well as plants that have undergone stress: frost, branch breakage, invasion, disease, etc. Eliminate the cause of damage/disease if possible before spraying plants. Epin is not a medicine or a panacea, it is an effective means of rehabilitation and maintaining the health of plants at all stages of their growth and development.

The recommendation to spray the plants in the early morning or late evening is due to the fact that in sunlight the active ingredient of epin, epibrassinolide, disappears very quickly, and there will be little sense from daytime spraying.

In addition, spray only the vegetative parts of plants - branches and leaves, remembering (if possible) to moisten the lower parts of the leaves with the solution. Spraying under stressful conditions (drought, lack of light, diseases, etc.) is done every 7-10 days, until the plants are completely healed. If your pets are quite healthy, spray them three times a season.

Epin standard solution, which is suitable for spraying almost all horticultural crops: 1 ampoule (0.25 mg) per 5 liters of water.

Another nuance: the tap water that we usually use is alkaline, and alkali significantly reduces the beneficial effect of epin. Therefore, before diluting the drug in water, add a few crystals of citric acid to it. Epin is absorbed by the plant within 2-3 days, so spraying should be carried out on non-rainy windless days.

It is even better to make a magic compote from healthy garden, Ecoberina, NV - 101 and Epin. Then your plants will certainly come to life and at the same time you will get an excellent harvest! But these drugs are sold at Natural Farming Centers, if there are such in your city, then it’s good, but Epin and HB are sold in all ordinary garden stores.

Restorative functions of vegetables!

Many plants have a natural regeneration function. For example, tomatoes and peppers shoot side shoots and leaves from the stem. Therefore, you should not remove them if they were caught by frosts, of course, if the frosts were not on the ground! Just surround them increased attention and give it time. And they will come to life! Some frozen plants after treatment with biological products were covered for a while with cardboard boxes and this helped:

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But the main thing here is that at first you will be properly frightened, and then, having come to your senses, you will find the right decision(most often even by accident), and thereby enrich your gardening experience. So I want to describe one incident that took place in the country.

The children brought me with seedlings and all the accompanying clothes to the site on May 5th. I, of course, barely catching my breath, immediately set to work.

She leveled the ground, put the arcs and found that the non-woven material was left in the apartment (always, when collecting something for the dacha, you will forget it).

I had to cover the greenhouse with cellophane. The weather was warm (13° on the thermometer), quiet, in the greenhouse in three hours it was already under 18°. I put there boxes with seedlings: low, with flowers - between the beds, and high, with tomatoes - right on them. I tucked the film everywhere, fixed it, and the children took me back to the city.

Arrived a couple of days later, happy - finally I'm in my favorite garden. open greenhouse, and my seedlings are all black, lowered the leaves (baby flowers are intact). I'm in a trance. I can’t believe my eyes: well, this can’t be!

After all, there were no frosts, I followed. A neighbor came and said that there was just one frost - just one, just today, but while I was riding the bus, there was no trace of it. Although no, here they are, these traces ...

I rashly took out the boxes in the sun and let's pull the seedlings out of the glasses. What I was looking for or wanted to see, I myself do not know.

By the time I came to my senses, I had already emptied two boxes. I got even worse. She grieved, and then diluted a double dose of the stimulant (60 drops per 3 l), sprayed the remaining seedlings with them twice (after the first treatment she poured water very generously) and brought it into the greenhouse. In the evening I covered it with non-woven material and left for the city.

In the morning I was already at the cottage again. Again she took the seedlings out into the street, again sprayed with a solution, but now she left it in the sun. I didn’t cut off the black leaves, but on the fifth day I cut them off, leaving stems 1 cm high. I didn’t do anything else with the plants, I didn’t even water them.

Nine days later, "buttons" of greenery appeared on the stems in the axils of the leaves. Oh, and then I came to life!

And then I already wanted to go collect extra seedlings from acquaintances. Mine grew up (feeding it with fermented grass and chicken manure) and almost caught up with the neighbor's (only in fruiting then lagged behind for two weeks). During the season, I sprayed the plants with the same stimulant twice more: before the first ovaries appeared and before the second brushes ripened. I watered it once every two weeks under the root - with fermented grass and just water from a hose.

In general, the growth stimulator saved me. The harvest was no worse than that of the neighbors.

I now use this remedy whenever bad weather lasts for more than four days, so that the ovary of the tomatoes does not fall off.

Dear gardeners, do not flog the fever in case of failures! Use all means, try. Don't give up! And you will have excellent harvests.

Note: utensils for seedlings

I would like to talk about containers for tomato seedlings.

I consider this an important issue. During the winter I collect in large numbers paper liter milk bags. I cut off one edge of them, rinse thoroughly, then cut the boxes along the edges with scissors to the middle: four petals are obtained. I bend them and fix them with an elastic band or thread, I fall asleep inside the earth.

I water it warm water and I sow 2-3 seeds in each bag, sprinkling them on top with a thin layer of soil (no more than 0.5 cm). I put the boxes near the battery, pressing them tightly against each other, cover with a film. Sprouts appeared - I do not remove the shelter. Loops appeared - I remove the film and transfer the boxes to the window sills. When the plants are decorated with 2-3 real leaves, I leave one of the strongest sprouts in bags (I don’t cut the weaklings, but pluck them).

Seedlings have grown to 10-15 cm - I cut off the lower leaves with sharp scissors, exposing the stems. After that, I wait 2-3 hours (so that the wounds are slightly tightened), I remove the fixing elastic bands from the boxes, bend the petals up, seal the slots with tape and fill up the ground to the height of the bare stems. And so I do until the boxes are completely filled with soil.

If during these procedures the seedlings slow down growth, then this is not so scary, it just builds up new roots. But then it will grow strong and healthy.

And now it's time to land my pets in the wild. I water them well with warm water, lightly press on the boxes, turn them over with my left hand, and the plants, together with the ground, “pop out” right into my right hand. It is very convenient to place seedlings in such boxes on the windowsills. They stand there tightly to each other, evenly - the place is saved for other cultures. And it is convenient to transport: put it tightly in cardboard boxes - and take it!

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Nature is full of surprises, and the most unpleasant of them is the sudden changeability of the weather. Frosts pose a significant danger to young plants, and too low air temperatures can even kill them.

But if the necessary measures are taken in a timely manner to restore frozen plants, then crops can be restored in a short time. In the article I will tell you how to feed tomatoes after frost, and what resuscitation measures are needed to save the future crop.

Not only tomatoes, but also other crops can be severely affected by weather variability. lowered temperature conditions often provoke the death of young seedlings. What happens to plants under the influence sub-zero temperatures air?

Under the influence of frost, the liquid contained in the cells of the plant turns into ice.
As soon as the air temperature becomes positive, the ice in the cells melts, increasing in volume, which provokes the rupture of cellular structures.
Frozen plant cells die.

Severe frosts can damage the entire plant. If not the whole plant is frozen, but only some of its parts, then using emergency resuscitation measures, the seedlings can be restored.

How to restore tomatoes after frost

There are certain actions that will help save tomato seedlings after frost.

Spraying with water

If the surface of the leaves of tomatoes is covered with frost, then the plant must be sprayed with water and then shaded. Spraying is done until the air temperature rises and the frost from the surface of the leaves has melted.

Spraying is carried out with cold water. You can use either a spray gun or a fine spray hose.
After - the plant is shaded. To do this, you can use a sheet of cardboard, newspaper, plywood or something else that will reliably cover the tomatoes from the scorching sun.

Spraying with antidepressants

Gardeners call the tool "Epin-Extra" a miracle drug, and all because it is capable of in the most short time restore crops affected by frost.

Solution preparation:

1 ampoule of the drug dissolves in 5 liters. boiled water;
the effectiveness of the product can be enhanced by adding a few crystals of citric acid to the water or pouring 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice.

The prepared solution is sprayed on the lower and upper sides of the leaves, as well as the trunks. It is important to repeat the resuscitation procedure every week, and so on until the plant is fully restored.

Another drug for restoring frozen tomatoes is Zircon.

Solution preparation:

in 10 l. cool water dissolve 1 ml. active agent.

Tomatoes are sprayed every 7 days. The total number of resuscitation treatments is 4 times.

Important! Processing of frost-damaged tomatoes is carried out either in the early morning or late evening.

Feeding frost-damaged tomatoes

Frost-damaged plants can be helped to recover with a nutritious top dressing. When applying fertilizers to the soil, it is important to observe the proportions. Mineral solutions should be weaker, otherwise, instead of restoring, such top dressing will destroy frozen tomatoes.

How to feed tomatoes after the cold?

"Zircon". A nutrient preparation will help reanimate frozen tomatoes. Fertilizer is applied strictly in root system seedlings, it is important that not a drop mineral supplement did not get on the leaves or stem of the plant.
Urea. An effective remedy resuscitation of plants after frost is urea. Fertilizer is also applied only under the root system of tomatoes.
Bird or cow dung. Biological top dressing is especially effective if the tomatoes have suffered from morning frosts. Fertilizer is applied exclusively under the roots of the plant.

Frozen parts of tomatoes should be removed, as they will not be able to recover. emergency measures to prevent the consequences of frost will help plants survive this difficult period and continue their development.

Immediately after applying one of the above fertilizers to the root system, the plantings are covered with a layer polyethylene film for 10 days. If the plant was not killed by frost, then after the designated period it departs.

The timeliness of resuscitation measures will help the tomatoes recover quickly and begin to bear fruit on time.

Recovery of greenhouse tomatoes after frost

Some gardeners are sure that seedlings grown in greenhouse conditions protected from the negative phenomena of nature. In most cases, this is true, but sometimes plants grown in a greenhouse are exposed to low temperatures.

If the tomatoes in the greenhouse are frozen, then you should act urgently, namely:

Remove the film from the greenhouse completely.
Water the seedlings with warm water. The ideal liquid temperature is +30 degrees. Watering should be moderate, you can not pour the plants, as this can lead to their death.
Treat the leaves and trunks of frozen plants special tool- Epin. The composition for spraying is prepared as follows: in 1/2 l. warm water stir 2 mg. active drug. Spraying is carried out every 10 days.

Outcome

It is possible to restore frost-damaged tomatoes if resuscitation measures are used in a timely manner.
To restore tomato seedlings, spraying with water or antidepressants is used, as well as fertilizing plants with fertilizers.