Sowing tomatoes in boiling water: how to process seeds before planting

Toward the end of winter, gardeners begin an active period of sowing tomatoes for seedlings. Before planting, a mandatory processing of tomato seeds is carried out, which enhances protection against viruses and provides more friendly germination.

Recently, the method of sowing tomato seeds in boiling water has become increasingly popular among tomato growers. Despite some controversy, this method immediately took root and proved to be excellent. After all, after treatment with boiling water, even poorly germinating seeds quickly and amicably germinate.

How is this possible, and why don't the seeds die? The thing is that heat treatment helps to destroy the ethereal shell of the seeds, which prevents germination.In addition, boiling water disinfects both seeds and soil, so seedlings are he althier without additional treatments.

Step by step instructions

This seeding method is very simple and does not take much time.

Pre-prepared containers should be filled with earth by about three quarters.
The soil needs to be saturated with moisture.
Boil the kettle, and pour boiling water over the earth properly.
After that, you need to evenly sow the seeds on the ground and press them with your fingers or a knife. For better contact with the soil, you can lightly press each seed with a match.
Immediately cover containers tightly with cling film or a plastic bag.
Wrap in a thick cloth and put on a hot battery.
After an hour, the containers should be moved to any warm place.

You can slightly change the processing process, turning it into sowing tomatoes under boiling water. In this option, you first need to sow the seeds on moist soil, and then spill with boiling water. And even in this case, they will not suffer and will give one hundred percent germination.

Care for "boiled" seedlings

Now it remains only to ventilate the mini-greenhouses daily and monitor the condensate. The absence of condensation will indicate that it is time to water the seedlings. When the first "knees" hatch, it's time to move the containers with seedlings under additional lighting without removing the film. After the appearance of cotyledon leaves in most seedlings, the film must be removed from the containers.

Due to the fact that the seeds practically lie on the surface when planting, germinating they quickly stretch. To form a strong root system, they must be deepened.You can immediately plant the sprouts in separate cups or carefully pour the earth into a container, and pick a pick in a couple of weeks, when the seedlings get stronger.

Tomatoes sown in boiling water experience a shock that stimulates them to give offspring faster. So sowing seeds in boiling water not only affects the germination of tomatoes, but also speeds up the fruiting process and has a beneficial effect on yields.

In this way, you can process not only tomato seeds, but also other plants: peppers, eggplants, celery, cucumbers. Many flower seeds respond very well to treatment with boiling water. Summer residents love to experiment, so new methods are emerging that can turn a tedious struggle for a harvest into a pleasant adventure.

Reviews

Julia:

I use this method when growing peppers and tomatoes. They germinate much better than with standard sowing. I'm afraid to scald seeds without a hard shell.

Leonid:

According to the method with boiling water, we are trying to plant not only tomatoes, but also cucumbers. We spill the prepared bed with boiling water and sow cucumbers, without pre-soaking. Cover with foil and you're done.

Larisa:

When I first read about the method of sowing with boiling water, I doubted, but I wanted to try. I sowed part of the seeds in the usual way, and treated the other part with boiling water. The first to hatch were those under boiling water, friendly and strong shoots turned out. But the usual method of sowing did not give such results.

Natasha:

I don't like to experiment. If the seeds are of high quality, they germinate and develop well even without additional manipulations.

Olga:

I haven't tried scalding yet. Usually I just spill the soil with a hot solution of potassium permanganate before sowing, and everything germinates perfectly.