Copper sulfate for cucumbers
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A vegetable crop such as cucumbers, unfortunately, has a low level of resistance to various diseases. Summer residents and gardeners ask themselves the question: with the help of what to carry out the treatment? The most popular, effective and inexpensive method of treatment is with the help of such a remedy as copper sulfate for cucumbers.
Copper sulfate for cucumbers: a description of the product
Copper sulfate for cucumbers: photo
Copper sulfate for cucumbers belongs to contact fungicides, providing a shelter effect for plants from various diseases, blue color in powder form or in the form of small granules, particles. It is necessary to provide him with contact with water. The composition contains copper sulfate.
It is possible to purchase copper sulfate for cucumbers in special shops with the theme of a garden and a vegetable garden or in ordinary supermarkets in the household chemicals department. They are used in the beds, in the garden, in the treatment of fungus diseases on shrubs, trees, vegetables, flower crops.
The specificity of the tool
Copper sulfate for cucumbers has a high acid level. To reduce the level of acid, summer residents are poured into a preparation in which they placed three to five grams of laundry soap in advance and poured two hundred to five hundred milliliters of boiling water. Don't forget to lather your laundry soap.
Self-made preparations, which are based on a fungicide, begin to perform the declared actions after two to four hours. At a temperature in the region of about fifteen degrees, it is worth applying the solution for up to two weeks, at a temperature in the region of about twenty-five degrees, it is worth applying the solution for up to one week.
Copper sulfate treatment of grapes: photo
It is necessary to carry out work on the processing of grapes with copper sulfate on days without wind and any precipitation. In case of an unexpected arrival of precipitation after the procedure for applying the drug, you should not wait and reapply the drug. Otherwise, no effective result will occur. All because of the huge amount of runoff solution contained in the soil.
It has prophylactic and antibacterial action. It is worth working with the drug carefully, as it harms the human body, because it is toxic. Scientists classified it as a drug with a third hazard class. Because of this, it is necessary to apply the solution in special clothing, goggles and a mask that does not allow you to inhale this drug.
Safety engineering
If copper sulfate gets on the skin tissue, it is necessary to immediately rinse this area of the skin with a huge amount of clean liquid. The drug provokes irritation of the mucous membranes, causes bronchial cough, and nosebleeds. It is worth mentioning that with excessive amounts of the fungicide, the plant has numerous foliage burns, the flowers dry out faster, and the fruits decrease in size and deteriorate in taste.
The use of copper sulfate for cucumbers
Ignoring the numerous medicinal properties of the solution, it is also used in:
- is part of many fertilizers.
- used as a disinfectant for wood surfaces.
- used as a disinfectant for soil.
Copper sulfate for cucumbers containing copper sulfate is used in the spring season and summer season. Before the winter season, application is not recommended, since the soil does not tolerate an excess of any substances and trace elements.
Making a Bordeaux preparation
Bordeaux preparation is often used in beds and vegetable gardens, as it has a beneficial effect on herbaceous crops. Copper sulfate is part of this fungicide.
To make a Bordeaux preparation, you must take any container made of wood, plastic, glass. Never use containers made of metal. There are two options for making a solution: either three percent strong, or one percent gentle.
A strong three percent is made as follows:
- Three hundred grams of copper sulfate is placed in boiling water, but in small quantities.
- Gently pour in ice water, try to increase the volume of the drug to ten liters.
- I slowly pour the prepared preparation into the milk of lime, strain the slaked lime, the amount of which should be about four hundred grams.
- Stir the solution all the time it is prepared.
To make a one percent gentle solution, you need: ten liters of clean water, one hundred grams of copper sulfate, as well as slaked lime. They contribute to the excellent property - the drug keeps well on vegetable crops. During the growing season, this vegetable crop uses this concentration exclusively.
Remember that the drug must be infused for three to four hours. Then pass it through several layers of gauze and you can use it.
Copper sulfate treatment for cucumbers
This drug is used at different stages of the growth of cucumbers.
It is necessary to dose the components of a solution of copper sulfate for cucumbers according to this scheme: fifty to seventy milliliters of water are used per one hundred milliliters of solution. The water temperature is about forty - fifty degrees. All must be mixed in any container made of plastic. Try to make the solution about ten liters in volume. Before using the drug, pass it a couple of times through several layers of gauze.
First point
The initial stage is the preparation of the planting material for sowing. To do this, arrange a procedure for disinfecting seeds. Transfer the seeds to a 2% preparation. Do not touch it for eight to nine hours. This process will promote early germination.
Second point
Next, you need to prepare the soil in all types of sites. It is necessary to disinfect the soil. Seven days before planting this vegetable crop, moisten the soil with a three percent preparation. Usually it takes three hundred grams per ten liters of water.
Lack of copper in the soil
When growing cucumbers in the ground, which lacks copper, it is worth adding top dressing to it, which contains this drug. Mandatory fertilization is required for peat, sandy, marshy, sandy loam soils. In the spring season and autumn season, add copper sulfate to the soil, in the amount of one kilogram per square meter. Performs this procedure once every five years.
Use during illness
They also use a solution based on water with copper sulfate to carry out a procedure to heal herbaceous crops from various diseases. The components that make up this drug cure:
- powdery mildew.
For use on a plant affected by powdery mildew, they acquire about seven grams of copper sulfate and one hundred grams of laundry soap per ten liters of water. In another container, dissolve copper and laundry soap in clean water. Then pour slowly, remember to stir.
- penosporosis, or downy mildew.
Use Bordeaux solution.
- ascochitis.
The preparation is made from: five grams of vitriol, ten grams of urea, ten liters of water. Apply twice after seven days.
- root rot.
Usually for ten liters of water there is one teaspoon of copper sulfate, one teaspoon of zinc sulfate, one tablespoon of superphosphate. The drug is used for watering in its pure form, do the doses as follows: for five liters of the drug there is one square meter.
- gray rot.
To get rid of the disease in greenhouses, use one teaspoon of copper sulfate (finely chopped), one tablespoon of wood ash. Stir and sprinkle over infected plant parts.
If there is a lack of copper during the growing season, it is necessary to use fertilizers. Usually, ten liters of water account for one to two grams of copper sulfate.
To determine the rate of expenditure, it is worth following this plan: a one percent solution is used - ten liters per hundred square meters. To prepare the drug, take one hundred grams of solution for ten liters.
This vegetable crop is included in the diet no earlier than a week after you have processed the plant. It is advisable to process other herbaceous crops fourteen days before harvest. Before eating the fruits, it is recommended to thoroughly rinse and dry them. The crop does not absorb this solution, the drug remains bloom on the peel.
Use in greenhouses
Copper sulfate is considered an excellent disinfectant. When planting this vegetable crop in greenhouses, greenhouses, it is possible to process surfaces made of wood. However, do not overdo it. The soil becomes more acidic, the growth of the plant slows down, and the plant itself withers.
It is recommended to use poor vitriol for cucumbers in case of building a greenhouse. Get a wall paint brush or a regular dish sponge. Dip it in the solution and start working on wooden surfaces.
