Mikastorm
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Do you know how many leaves a tomato plant really needs to thrive? Are you ready for this?
A Grand total of.....
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3 Leaves! Yes. 3 little leaves. Yet, at the 8 week mark, most people will have about 40 or 80 leaves! This is serious trouble for the tomato plants. Here’s why.
1. The tomato leaves and the leaf branches suck away all the food, water, and energy from the fruit! They need to be removed so that the food, water, and energy goes into the flowers(the fruit!)
2. The tomato leaves form a thick coating around the entire tomato plant. Preventing the flow of fresh air to the plant! You’d think the tomato plant could breathe, but it’s suffocating!
The tomato plant needs a constant flow of fresh air! The air needs to be re circulated about 60 times per minute. The leaves completely stop this process.
3. If the weather becomes too humid, the huge jungle of leaves offers a nice damp area of fungal diseases and all kinds of other nasty stuff to form and kill your plants within 48 hours or less.
4. If you’re growing tomatoes outdoors, and it rains, the damp leaves offer a spring board for fungal diseases.
The list goes on and on, however, point 1 and 2 are most important. I’ll say it again...
"The tomato plant needs a constant flow of fresh air! The air needs to be re circulated about 60 times per minute. The leaves completely stop this process., The tomato leaves and the leaf branches suck away all the food, water, and energy from the fruit! They need to be removed so that the food, water, and energy goes into the flowers!(the fruit!)"
If This is Not Done Properly,
You'll See...
1. Fewer Tomato Flowers
2. A Much Lower Turn-Out of Fruit,
3. Sour Red Balls For Tomatoes
4. Dwarfed Often Deformed Tomatoes
5. Tomato Plants Take Longer Mature
It’s a simple case of energy re-direction. The tomato plant needs only 3 leaves to assimilate carbon-dioxide and absorb the sun’s energy. The rest of the leaves are un-necessary. They’re dead waste.
If you want to grow incredibly tasting tomatoes in half the time and produce 3 to 10 times more tomatoes, you need to use this secret.
When you correctly remove the right leaves from the plant as it grows, all the energy that would normally be used to growing and sustaining the thick tomato branches and the bushy leaves goes right into the fruit. The tomato plant then produces more fruit, the fruit grows quicker, and the fruit is much tastier!
Overall, the whole plant is much stronger, and less likely to die from some sort of disease
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