How to feed tomatoes with ammonia: dosages and recipes

Organic and mineral fertilizers are used for feeding tomatoes, and not all vegetable growers know that tomatoes can be fed with ammonia. It contains a lot of nitrogen, which is important for photosynthesis and is necessary in large quantities during the growing season, when the plant is actively gaining green mass. At each stage of development, nitrogen is needed in a different amount, and gardeners take this into account when preparing fertilizers. Salmon in top dressing solves other problems as well.

Signs of a lack of nitrogen in tomatoes

It is easy to guess about nitrogen deficiency by the type of tomato bush and the peculiarities of its development:

• pale or yellowing bottom sheets;
• smaller new leaves, in comparison with previously grown;
• fragile and thin shoots;
• slowing down the development of the bush or stopping growth;
• a decrease in the number of flowers or their absence at all;
• hypersensitivity to temperature changes.

The signs of nitrogen deficiency are the same for mature plants and seedlings.

The complex effect of ammonia on tomatoes

The substances contained in ammonia are quickly absorbed regardless of the type of feeding: root or leaf. Tomatoes after proper treatment with a solution with ammonia:

• actively bloom with the subsequent formation of ovaries;
• return to normal development: the stems are strengthened and withstand the stress of ripening fruits, the green mass is growing.

An important plus of using a solution with ammonia is that it destroys aphids, scares off a bear, wireworm, snails, slugs. Pests, sensing the smell of ammonia, leave the treated bushes.

2-in-1 recipe

In order to simultaneously solve both problems: to feed and protect from pests, fertilizer is prepared according to the following recipe:

1. Add 50 ml of 10% ammonia to a bucket of water.
2. Laundry soap is grinded on a grater and a handful is thrown into the water.
3. Stir until the soap dissolves.

The tomato bushes are treated with the resulting product, sprinkling on the leaf and watering.

Advice
Scaring off pests that eat the greens of the plant will be more effective when processing a bush on a leaf.

Target application

Most often, fertilizers with ammonia are used to solve a specific problem, most often to replenish nitrogen in the soil. The specific recipe is chosen based on the needs and state of the plantings. But, regardless of the purpose of processing, they start with small concentrations: this way the plant will have time to adapt to changes in the nutrient medium.

Advice
Fertilizers with ammonia are used immediately after preparation, so that ammonia does not evaporate.

When growing seedlings

The first meeting of tomatoes with ammonia occurs at the seedling stage. To protect seedlings from attacks by pests and microorganisms that cause diseases, plastic seedling containers are treated with a solution of ammonia (1 ml of alcohol per 1 liter of water). The same means is used to irrigate the land prepared for planting seeds.

The time for the first feeding comes when 4 leaves appear on the seedling or 2 weeks after the pick. The plant is watered with a weak solution prepared from 5 ml of alcohol and a bucket of water.

The next time, ammonia for tomato seedlings is taken during transplantation - half a liter of a solution obtained from 10 ml of ammonia and a bucket of water is poured into the hole.

During fruiting

After moving to a site, the plants need to be supported, their growth and development must be enhanced.Therefore, they are watered weekly under a bush or sprayed with a solution of ammonia (50 ml per 10 liters of water).

To ripen the crop

In the autumn, when frosts are coming, unripe tomatoes remain hanging on the bushes. You don't want to shoot green tomatoes, but it's a pity to leave them on the bush - they will disappear.

To speed up ripening, tomatoes are sprayed on the leaf with a product in ammonia:

1. 200 ml of apple juice.
2. 10 ml of liquid soap or shampoo.
3. 10 ml of ammonia.
4. Pour everything into 10 liters of ordinary water.
5. Process tomato plantings no more than once every 7 days.

For pest control

Treatment with ammonia on the leaf helps from aphids, in a dosage of 50 ml per 10-liter bucket. Mix (until completely dissolved) 1 piece of laundry soap to the solution. The detergent creates a protective film through which larvae and aphids cannot penetrate.

They protect themselves from wireworms and bears when planting a bush by adding 0.5 liters of a weak solution (for 10 liters of water - 10 ml) of ammonia to the hole. The same composition is used for root feeding in order to save the plant from ants.

When is it better to root, and when to spray

Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages. So, when watering, it is easier to control the amount of nutrients, the feeding process itself is faster and does not require a respirator and glasses. The weak point of the root method is that the result is visible only after a while.

On the other hand, when spraying, the result is almost instantaneous. However, because of the small splashes scattering everywhere, you need to strictly observe safety measures and make sure that children, pets, and neighbors do not get under the fertilizer.

Important
The requirement to work in personal protective equipment remains in force when preparing a solution.

Also, the method is chosen based on the purpose for which fertilization is applied. For prevention, watering is more appropriate. With a nitrogen deficiency, especially during the fruiting period, this is not enough, and foliar feeding is carried out.

Plantings are sprayed strictly in the evening or in cloudy weather so as not to burn the foliage, and they plan the procedure for a day without precipitation.

Experienced gardeners recommend regularly feeding only weak tomato bushes, and sprinkling healthy ones to protect them from insect pests and pathogens.

Disadvantages of fertilizing with ammonia

The disadvantages of using solutions with ammonia include:

• the need to wear protective equipment for the face and hands, which complicates and delays work;
• acidification of the soil, which provokes the defeat of fungi and late blight (restore the pH of the soil by liming);
• lack of flowering and fruiting: overdoing it with nitrogen fertilization, it is easy to "emasculate" the planting, so that they will intensively gain green mass, but will neither bloom nor bear fruit. In this case, you need to stop adding ammonia solution for a while.

Plants absorb nitrogen faster from ammonia than from other nitrogenous compounds. This is the main reason for the popularity of ammonia as a fertilizer for garden crops. And they feed vegetables, flowers, trees with a solution. Another reason to use this pharmacy drug is that it is inexpensive, affordable. However, it is necessary to remember about safety measures and dosages, otherwise the body and planting will suffer.