The pilot phase was conducted in the greenhouse for agricultural production in the Experimental field of the
Faculty of Sciences agricultural of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos; they were two crop
sowings during production cycles (November 2014) autumn-winter and spring-summer (June 2015).
Red tomato seedlings were determined “Saladette” type produced in trays of polyethylene of 200 cavities,
which was transplanted at a density of 16 plants m-2, two plants per each bag (16 L capacity) with red tezontle
substrate. The Fertigation was eight irrigation during the day, with a nutrient solution of Steiner [4] modified.
The experimental design was completely randomized with repeated weekly samplings with destructive variables.
We assessed aspects related to the growth of plants, specifically the leaf area; this variable was obtained
through 16 weekly plant by sampling during each cycle.
Results were statistically examined through an analysis of variance and Tukey (α ≤ 0.05) for the separation of
means, using the program SAS 8.1 [5].
To determine the stable state of leaf area in tomato plants by average weekly obtained through an application
of Markov chains transition matrix.