Yeast feeding for cucumbers. Recipes and rules of application
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Yeast feeding for cucumbers is very effective - it has already been 100% proven, and more than once. Below you will find recipes for yeast dressings, familiarize yourself with them, fertilizers are easy and simple to prepare, plus all this is an economical and not energy-intensive option. In particular, those gardeners who enjoy doing organic farming and who work for both quality and quantity will be delighted with yeast recipes.
The beneficial properties of yeast
Yeast is rich in fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Yeast mushrooms boast the content of rare amino acids, they also contain organic iron and other essential trace elements for seedlings. And then the thought immediately creeps in that here it is, the benefits of yeast! But in reality, the utility is different.
The yeast effect for plants lies in the activity of fungi: the yeast fungi introduced into the ground begin to actively reproduce, they create good conditions for other beneficial soil microorganisms and fight against pathogenic enemies. In cucumbers, morbidity decreases, and a strong immunity to bad climatic conditions and enemies is developed. Yeast quickly recycles organic matter and mineral components that were introduced earlier, saturating the earth with nitrogen and phosphorus. Benefits, of course, benefits, but you still need to use yeast with caution.
When yeasts ferment, they start to take up a lot of calcium and potassium. Often, eggshells (ground) and wood ash are added to the fertilizer to compensate for nutrient deficiencies.
If you fertilize humus-poor soil with a yeast solution, the soil will be depleted, despite the fact that a favorable short-term effect of fertilization will still occur.
Rules for feeding with yeast fertilizers without harm to the soil:
Feeding with yeast solution is necessary only after organic and mineral fertilizers have been applied with a sequence period of a week or two.
Together with the introduction of top dressing or two or three days before it, the wet soil is fertilized with wood ash and egg shells, loosening the earth, or dissolved fertilizers are applied simultaneously with watering.
It is necessary to strictly observe the schemes and doses of feeding (see the recipe). Otherwise, they'll do it first, and then they just look at the instructions;)
With the correct fertilization, you will see effectiveness within two to three days in adult plants and in the first 24 hours in seedlings.
The best effect of yeast feeding can be seen with tomatoes and cucumbers. A lot of organic and mineral fertilizers are produced for these plants; this is a very favorable place of residence and conditions for yeast fungi.
The facts, thanks to which a rich harvest is obtained when using yeast fertilizers.
- The plant begins to bear fruit faster by 10-14 days.
- Seedlings have the fastest rooting, diseases do not attack.
- Much greater set of inflorescences and fruits occurs without voids.
- The plant bears fruit for a longer period of time.
- Cucumbers become tastier, crisper and sweeter.
Advice: if you process the seeds in a yeast solution before planting, then the germination time will be shortened, and the plants will come out together and quickly.
Yeast dressing for cucumbers - the best dressing recipes
In order to prepare top dressing, nutritional (the most affordable yeast and plus the economy option), feed, brewer's yeast are used.Fertilizers are prepared from dry and pressed yeast (sold in briquettes).
In order for the yeast to ferment faster, sugar must be added to the top dressing. The solution itself should be insisted in temperature conditions of + 30-40 °. Yeast multiplies more intensively in an acidic environment, sugar is a good helper in this.
Basic yeast recipes are supplemented with dairy products, they release calcium for the yeast to ferment and prevent plant fungus. Ash can also help from the fungus, it will also help with a lack of potassium. The shell of the eggs will share the calcium.
Wood ash infusion is prepared separately from yeast. Before watering, a solution of yeast and ash is added to each other. It is necessary to insist the ash solution for 12 hours, infuse the yeast solution without sugar for 6 hours, with sugar to stand for two to four hours. Consider these guidelines when preparing yeast infusions. By the way, catch a life hack: honey, jam, syrup can replace sugar.
Basic Pressed Yeast Recipe.
You need to take 100 g of live yeast, pour warm water (1 liter), so that the mushrooms ferment faster, you need to add 50 g of sugar to the solution. When a foam in the form of a cap appears at the top of the solution, water is carefully added to it, it is necessary to bring the solution to a total volume of 10 liters. Then the fertilizer goes straight to work.
Basic dry yeast recipe.
The solution is prepared identically to the compressed yeast solution. But only in this case, a different dosage of yeast is used: you need 10 grams of yeast per 1 liter of warm water.
Basic dressings can already be used in their simple form, but you can make them even more useful.
Milk supplement from yeast.
There are two recipes for how to make dairy yeast supplements. The first method: according to the basic recipe, but instead of water, a liter of heated milk is poured. The finished fertilizer is not diluted with water. Cucumbers are sprayed with this solution against fungus and powdery mildew.
The second way: a basic yeast fertilizer is taken, 1 liter of milk (kefir, whey) is poured in instead of water, a glass of egg shell powder is poured out. It is better to apply this fertilizer to the ground around adult plants.
Yeast feeding of cucumbers with wood ash.
First, an ash solution is prepared. A glass of ash is taken, 3 liters of boiling water are poured into the ash, the solution is infused for at least half a day, then the finished concentrated solution is filtered and water is added to a total volume of 10 liters.
100 g of pressed yeast or 10 g of dry yeast is poured with a liter of warm water and kept. When foam appears, the yeast infusion is carefully poured into the ash solution, half a glass of egg shell powder is added or 15 grams are added, no matter what kind of potassium fertilizer (excluding potassium chloride). Ash and yeast dressing is poured over the ground around the cucumbers that live in greenhouses, hotbeds, in the open, and home seedlings are fertilized.
Green fertilizer for cucumbers with yeast.
If the soil of your site contains little humus, then this recipe is for you. You need an ash solution according to the recipe written above, separately a yeast solution (100 g of fresh yeast / 1 l of water).
Herbal infusion (prepared in advance): 10 liter bucket for? fill with any pre-chopped grass (freshly cut, nettles, calendula, even weeds, but without seeds), then pour water to a full bucket and stand for 24 hours. Next, the herb infusion is filtered, a 3-liter solution of ash and yeast, diluted in advance, is added to it. Fertilizer is fed to cucumbers growing in the open field, in greenhouses and hotbeds.
Top dressing scheme
Yeast feeding of cucumbers is carried out strictly according to the recipe.
Top dressing dosage:
For adult plants - 1 bush requires 1 liter of feed.
For seedlings only planted for permanent residence - 1 greenhouse needs 0.3-0.5 liters. feeding.
For home seedlings - 1 seedling will require only 15-30 ml of solution.
Yeast root feeding is carried out no more than three times per season, foliar feeding (spraying) - no more than 2 times during cultivation. Cucumbers are sprayed in warm cloudy weather to avoid plant burns. If it rains after spraying, then the procedure is carried out again, because the rain will wash off the yeast solution from the leaves.
The first yeast feeding for cucumbers
It is carried out at the stage of growing seedlings, when two to four leaves appear on its seedlings. The soil should be of high quality, saturated with humus and nutrients, only under this condition it is possible to apply yeast fertilizers. If the soil is poor, then the first top dressing is not carried out until the plants are planted for permanent residence.
Second yeast feeding for cucumbers
It is used when the plant takes root at its permanent place of residence and 7 days after fertilizing the soil with organic matter: chicken droppings or mullein. If organic fertilizers were applied before planting, then yeast top dressing can be applied 10 days after planting the seedlings.
The third yeast feeding for cucumbers
It is carried out at the stage when the plant is in bloom and the fruit is set. At a later time, yeast feeding is not carried out, because the yeast takes potassium from the ground, and it is needed, also in large quantities, for seedlings at the fruiting stage. After the plants have faded, the yeast is introduced foliarly.
Yeast feeding for cucumbers - rules of application
The active development of yeast occurs in warm weather (but not in dry weather), and they actively multiply at t + 30-35 °. After a temperature of + 40 °, fungi die en masse. It is necessary to take this feature into account when using yeast fungi in greenhouse conditions, in which the air temperature during the day reaches + 45-50 °. Therefore, before greenhouse feeding, you should first ventilate the room or carry out feeding in the morning. Early additions of dressings are useless, at t below + 4-8 ° the yeast stops developing. It is necessary to use yeast dressings for cucumbers when a stable warm time comes.
By the way, before feeding, you need to moisten the soil, because microorganisms become active in a humid environment.
Various sources write that someone stores yeast solutions for weeks, but this is if the yeast has enough sugars for nutrition. The basic top dressing must be used immediately, as it can ferment, and live microorganisms will die.
But all the same, yeast fertilizers have a beneficial effect on cucumbers: the seedlings after transplantation grow stronger, more fruits are tied, the cucumbers are dense, without voids inside - this is how gardeners and farmers respond positively to yeast feeding.
So we have come to the end of our interesting informative article on how to properly use yeast mushrooms for cucumbers, how to prepare top dressing.
Use this information, and you will be assured of a rich bountiful harvest.