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Unregulated use of chemical fertilizers and similar plant protection products depletes the soil. Sometimes it becomes simply unsuitable for growing crops, since the crop grown on it is dangerous to eat. Therefore, the number of supporters of organic farming, which excludes the use of any “chemicals,” is growing every year. But all gardeners suffer from tomatoes. We have to treat them in order not only to cure, but also to prevent diseases of late blight, Alternaria and black spot. If you don’t want to use “chemistry,” then treating tomatoes with phytosporin is the best option. It is suitable not only for supporters of live farming, but also for all gardeners who want to grow a high yield of healthy tomatoes.
Composition and benefits for plants
Fitosporin is a microbiological preparation. It is a bacterial fungicide and biological pesticide. It contains Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus subtilis - a gram-positive, aerobic, spore-forming bacterium, both the culture itself and its spores.
The drug phytosporin is multifunctional:
- It is a systemic microbiological fungicide. It penetrates the tissues of tomatoes and, spreading through the vascular system of plants, suppresses the growth and development of pathogens of many tomato diseases, including Alternaria, late blight, and black rot. It creates a protective film on all parts of the tomatoes, which prevents pathogenic flora from penetrating through it.
- The use of phytosporin suppresses the growth of pathogenic microorganisms on the soil surface, and therefore can disinfect it.
- Immunoactive factors produced by Bacillus subtilis are immunostimulants for plants and increase their immunity in general and their resistance to late blight, Alternaria blight and black rot in particular.
- Thanks to the immunoactive factors and certain amino acids produced by Bacillus subtilis, damaged tomato tissues are restored, their growth and fruit quality are enhanced.
Fitosporin has a number of useful features for gardeners:
- a wide temperature range in which bacteria exist - from minus 50 to plus 40 degrees; when frozen, they go into a spore state; when normal conditions for existence occur, the bacteria resume their vital activity;
- the effectiveness of phytosporin can reach 95 percent;
- Possibility of processing tomatoes at any growth period. Tomatoes treated with phytosporin have no waiting period. Vegetables can be eaten even on the day of processing, you just need to wash them well.
- The drug has a fourth degree of danger and is low-toxic. The safety of hay bacteria for humans has been proven. Some of its varieties are used as medicine.
- Fitosporin is well compatible with a number of chemical pesticides, fertilizers and growth regulators.
- Possibility of long-term storage of the working solution.
Release form of the drug phytosporin
Fitosporin-M is available in several forms: as a powder in bags containing 10 or 30 grams of the drug, in the form of a paste - one bag contains 200 grams of phytosporin in liquid form.
There are other forms of the drug:
- Fitosporin-M,Zh extra - the active ingredient is enriched with the addition of humic substances and a full set of microelements in a chelate form accessible to tomatoes; used for pre-sowing treatment of seeds and treatment of tomatoes and other plants during the growing season. Not only fights tomato diseases, but also stimulates the formation of immunity, enhances growth, and fights stress in plants;
- Fitosporin-M tomatoes – enhanced by the addition of microelements, the composition and quantity of which is best suited specifically for tomatoes.
Features of tomato processing
To maximize the benefits for tomatoes when treated with phytosporin, you need to dilute the drug correctly and comply with a number of conditions.
- Do not use metal utensils or utensils that previously contained any chemicals.
- Use clean, non-hard and non-chlorinated water.
- The water temperature should not be higher than 35 degrees, since bacteria die at 40 degrees.
- Spraying should not be carried out in cold weather; bacteria are inactive during this period and the benefits of such treatment are small. Plants should be treated in calm and always cloudy weather, since bright sunlight is harmful to bacteria.
- The prepared solution must stand for at least two hours before treatment so that the hay bacteria is activated. Do not keep the prepared solution in the sun.
- The entire plant needs to be treated, including the lower surface of the leaves.
Consumption rates and frequency of treatment
The powder is diluted with warm water in the following proportions:
- for soaking seeds - half a teaspoon per 100 milliliters of water, soak the seeds for 2 hours;
- for pre-planting soaking of roots - 10 grams per 5 liters of water, holding time up to 2 hours, it is possible to water the planted seedlings with the prepared solution, which will simultaneously disinfect the soil;
- for preventive spraying - 5 grams of powder per 10 liters of water, frequency - every ten days, if the protective film is washed off with water due to rain, the treatment should be repeated.
Paste based on phytosporin.
- Prepare the concentrate in the following proportion: one part paste – two parts water. For further use, the concentrate is diluted in water.
- For seed treatment - 2 drops of concentrate per 100 milliliters of water.
- To treat the roots - 15 drops of concentrate per 5 liters of water.
- For spraying tomatoes - 3 teaspoons per ten-liter bucket. The frequency of processing is once every ten to fourteen days.
There is no rain in the greenhouse, so the protective film on the tomatoes lasts longer. That's why processing of greenhouse tomatoes phytosporin has its own characteristics, which the video describes:
Here's how to use this drug for seedlings:
Conclusion
The use of phytosporin will not only protect tomatoes from major diseases, but will also make the plants stronger and the fruits tastier and healthier.
