How to use ethephon to ripen tomatoes?
Ethephon is a high-quality and efficient plant growth regulator. The main uses of ethephon are: promoting female flower differentiation, promoting fruit maturity, promoting plant dwarfing, and breaking plant dormancy.
There are three ways to use Ethephon to ripen tomatoes:
(1) Coating the peduncle:
When the fruit is white-ripe, apply 300mg/kg ethephon on the last two peduncles of the inflorescence. It will mature red in 3 to 5 days.
(2) Fruit coating:
Use 400mg/kg ethephon to coat the sepals of white-ripened fruit flowers and their adjacent fruit surfaces to advance red ripening 6 to 8 days.
(3) Fruit soaking:
After harvesting the fruits during the color-changing period, soak them in an ethephon solution of 2000-3000 mg/kg for 10-30 seconds, then take them out and place them at 25°C and air humidity of 80%-85% place. After ripening, it will turn red after 4 to 6 days and should be put on the market in time, but the ripened fruits will not be as bright as those on the plant.
There are three ways to use Ethephon to ripen tomatoes:
(1) Coating the peduncle:
When the fruit is white-ripe, apply 300mg/kg ethephon on the last two peduncles of the inflorescence. It will mature red in 3 to 5 days.
(2) Fruit coating:
Use 400mg/kg ethephon to coat the sepals of white-ripened fruit flowers and their adjacent fruit surfaces to advance red ripening 6 to 8 days.
(3) Fruit soaking:
After harvesting the fruits during the color-changing period, soak them in an ethephon solution of 2000-3000 mg/kg for 10-30 seconds, then take them out and place them at 25°C and air humidity of 80%-85% place. After ripening, it will turn red after 4 to 6 days and should be put on the market in time, but the ripened fruits will not be as bright as those on the plant.