How to use hydrogen peroxide for tomatoes?
To get a good harvest of tomatoes, you need to make some effort and connect all sorts of tricks to achieve success. A good help in business will be the use of hydrogen peroxide, which is not only widely used in medicine, but also has a beneficial effect on the well-being of plants, prevents the development of various kinds of diseases in them and protects against pests.
What is useful?
In the natural environment, plants receive the nutrition necessary for life and growth from rainwater. But when it comes to growing garden crops, no one really relies on the mercy of nature. It can be very difficult to collect the right amount of water and rain "in reserve" and it is already difficult to hope that only pure drops fall from the sky in today's ecology. In order to certainly ensure a good harvest of tomatoes, they use hydrogen peroxide.
The disinfectant familiar to everyone has an unstable oxygen atom in its composition. This is an oxidizing agent that disinfects the soil and the vegetable crops themselves, nourishes their roots with air, activating metabolic processes in plants and saturation with useful substances.
Also, hydrogen peroxide has the following positive properties:
- disinfection of places of damage in plants;
- increasing the germination of seed material;
- increasing the ability to assimilate microelements by plants;
- improving the composition of the land;
- neutralization of nitrates and nitrites.
In order not to harm the tomatoes, peroxide of varying degrees of concentration should be used for seedlings and adult plants. At the same time, you must always be aware that this remedy is not a real fertilizer, but only starts growth processes in vegetable crops and boosts their immunity.
How to feed the seeds?
The quality of the harvest depends on the health and vigor of the seeds. The use of such an affordable pharmacy product as hydrogen peroxide allows them to sprout faster. For top dressing, before planting, the seeds are soaked in a peroxide solution. For two glasses of water, take one tablespoon of three percent hydrogen peroxide and soak the seed material for tomatoes in the resulting composition for a day. Then it is washed with water, allowed to dry and planted in the ground.
You can go the other way: the seeds are wrapped in cheesecloth and placed in 3% hydrogen peroxide for fifteen minutes. Then they take them out, wash them under a stream of clean water and leave them alone for a while - the seed material should dry out.
Manipulations with peroxide make it possible to disinfect the seeds and ensure good germination, as well as resistance to external influences for future sprouts.
Peroxide should be treated with the earth itself, as well as the containers in which it is poured. This will make it possible to avoid infection with various diseases, the pathogens of which may be in the soil and on the surface of the boxes.
The contents of the peroxide vial are dissolved in four liters of water. The soil is shed with this composition a few days before the seeds "settle" there. With the same solution, you can wash the surfaces of the boxes.
Experience shows that when treated with peroxide, the seeds develop into strong seedlings, and then into strong, dense bushes that can produce an excellent harvest.
How to fertilize plants?
Seedlings should also not be left without exposure to hydrogen peroxide. For top dressing per liter of settled water, you need to take half a tablespoon of three percent peroxide and water the sprouts with this remedy once every seven days (instead of the usual watering). If the seedling is overgrown, it is necessary to assess whether it needs such stimulation.
For the first time, such treatment is done two to three weeks after the seeds have sprouted.
Young tomato bushes need to be fertilized with peroxide even after transplanting them into the garden. The earth itself also needs to be treated with this pharmacy, as is the case with seed soil. The application of other fertilizers is not a reason to cancel the peroxide treatment, although it is important here to prevent overfeeding. 50 milliliters of hydrogen peroxide is diluted in a ten-liter bucket of water and the plants are watered.
Such procedures should be carried out once a week or ten days.
The procedure itself must be carried out correctly so as not to harm the plants:
- the liquid must be poured under the root, avoiding contact with the leaves;
- a warm solution is used for work;
- when watering, do not wash the soil with a jet;
- water should be absorbed into the ground no deeper than ten centimeters.
Reviews of experienced summer residents and farmers indicate that such treatment is very effective for weak plants. Thanks to watering with peroxide, they quickly recover and grow green, preserving flowers and ovaries.
The effectiveness of spraying bushes with a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide has also been proven.For ten liters of water, it is enough to take ten tablespoons of a pharmacy product.
Sprinkle the resulting composition on tomatoes should be in the evenings or in the mornings. Thanks to this procedure, the leaves are provided with additional oxygen saturation, which gives the plants energy for growth.
It is also necessary to carry out such processing with skill:
- do not start procedures in heat and wind;
- use a spray bottle that produces very fine mist.
All these measures, together with the task of activating the development of tomato bushes, solve the problem of protecting them from the effects of pathogenic microbes and pests. Peroxide treatment prevents the development of root rot, white spot and late blight in tomatoes.
The cause of such diseases of garden crops are fungal microorganisms that are able to defeat the active oxygen found in hydrogen peroxide.
To prevent diseases from starting their development, ten milliliters of three percent hydrogen peroxide is stirred in a liter of water (or more in appropriate proportions). With this composition, watering and spraying are carried out alternately a couple of times a week.
Special measures will require the processing of tomatoes with the involvement of hydrogen peroxide if the beds were attacked by aphids or other pests. You need to mix one tablespoon of peroxide with ten milliliters of ammonia and one tablespoon of finely chopped laundry soap, dissolve it all in water (1 liter). Tomato bushes are treated with a freshly prepared mixture with an interval of ten days.
When using peroxide to treat tomatoes, it is important not to overdo it with its effect on plants and soil. If white spots like mold begin to appear on the ground, it is better to stop watering and spraying for a while.
For those who have never used peroxide to feed and protect tomatoes, experienced gardeners are advised to start using solutions not on all the bushes, but only on some of them. On different soils, in different conditions, recipes with peroxide can work differently. Each amateur gardener eventually selects certain proportions of hydrogen peroxide dilution that work best.
The use of hydrogen peroxide when growing tomatoes does not require much effort and expense, but if the permissible concentration is observed during irrigation and spraying, you can avoid many troubles when growing tomatoes and collect a wonderful harvest that will delight not only in summer, but also in winter.
For the use of hydrogen peroxide for other vegetables, see the following video.