Transplanting by side contact method of plug seeding increases the productivity of two truss tomato on wet sheet culture by improving the initial taking root

Abstract

Transplanting by side contact method of plug seeding increased the root development after transplanting on wet sheet culture compared to conventional bottom contact transplanting. This method was applied to field experiment of two truss cropping system of tomato. As a result, transplanting by side contact method of plug seeding increased the rate of fruits setting by 42%, the root dry weight by 14% finally and sugar content of tomato fruits by 15% compared to conventional transplanting.