Growing tomatoes under glass enables you to control and influence a considerable number of cultivation factors. One of these factors is strengthening the resilience of the crop. The greater this resilience, the better equipped your tomato plant is to protect itself against abiotic stress. Improve the resilience of your tomato plants by applying our CE fertilisers and biostimulants. All contain natural ingredients and leave no residues, there is no growth inhibition, no re-entry restrictions and there is no safety term before harvest!
Follow our advice and start strengthening your tomato plants as early as during propagation. All the energy that is put into making the young plants more robust, stronger and more resilient will pay off later on during commercial growing. The crop is then more adept at coping with stress conditions.
Ask your propagator to feed the young plants with our versatile CE fertiliser ArgicinPlus, to give the plants a head start in times of stress. ArgicinPlus contains three different components: orthosilicic acid (silicon), willow bark extract and colloidal silver.
Due to its broad effect, ArgicinPlus is the standard for the propagation phase of tomato plants.
Recommended dosage/advice for use - ArgicinPlus in tomato growing
From the time at which the plants are delivered to you by the propagator and you start commercial growing, it is important that you further maintain or even scale up plant resilience. You can do this by combining the application of our CE marked biostimulants SalicylPure and SilicaPower:
Recommended dosage/advice for use - SalicylPure and SilicaPower in commercial growing of tomatoes
You can administer both products via irrigation (dose from the A fertiliser feeder or separate fertiliser injector based on the aforementioned doses), or you can spray. If you spray, an adjusted dose: 0.5 litres/ha/week (and 0.4 litres/ha/week in high wire crops) applies specifically to SilicaPower.
Tomatoes are frequently grown on rock wool. Organic substrates and perlite are frequently used as a growing medium. Rock wool and perlite are sterile, well-suited for a uniform root environment, but also without any form of natural soil life. When the growing conditions are poorer, we therefore recommend adding Soil Bac-1 to improve the microbiological soil life. Soil Bac-1 contains a Bacillus mix of gram positive bacteria that help with root formation and help to restore and rebalance the soil life, improving crop growth.
Recommended dosage/advice for use Soil Bac-1
Being able to supply the crop with plenty of clean water every day isn’t always a given. Blocked drippers or algae in the basin soon lead to problems. Stay ahead of these problems by using our - 100% natural - water-maintenance products Blue Bac-1 and Blue-Bac 2 every month. These bacterial products won’t only clear your basin or silo, but will also prevent a green film from forming and organic blockages.
Blue Bac-1 is a bacterial product based on useful and harmless bacteria. These bacteria compete with algae for nutrition, causing the algae to die off. They also assist in the digestion process of dead algae. This ensures that your basin and/or silo will become clean and stay clean.
Recommended dosage/advice for use Blue Bac-1
The Bacillus bacteria in Blue Bac-2 help clear organic contaminants from your irrigation system and drippers. The enzymes formed by these bacteria form a very smooth 'coating' on the inside of the pipes, which organic contaminants such as sand, cannot adhere to. The use of Blue Bac-2 also has a positive effect on the root development of the plants and helps you to maintain the pH (stability) of your feed water.
Recommended dosage/advice for use Blue Bac-2
Do you use hydrogen peroxide? Read this tip!
The recommended products ArgicinPlus, SalicylPure and Soil Bac cannot be used in irrigation water to which hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) has been added. The ingredients in these products are broken down by the H2O2 in just five minutes.
Blue Bac-1 and Blue Bac-2 are natural alternatives to H2O2 or other chemical disinfectants, such as hypochlorite. Contact our advisor to discuss our solution if you nevertheless wish to use hydrogen peroxide at the same time as SalicylPure, ArgicinPlus or Soil Bac.
Would you like additional advice for your own tomato cultivation situation?
Do you have any additional questions or would you like to know which biostimulants and CE fertilisers are best suited to your crop? For concise advice, contact your dealer or our advisor Alwin Scholten. Call Alwin on telephone number +31 (0)6 49 33 49 30, or contact him by email alwin.scholten@plantosys.nl
Administering ArgicinPlus from the very start to young tomato plants directly improves the plant resilience of the crop. In commercial growing, you will reap the benefits of these crops with a stronger skin as the skin will improve storability.
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Alwin Scholten