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When growing tomatoes in a summer cottage, you also have to deal with crop diseases. Late blight is considered the most common problem for gardeners. They are always wary of a possible outbreak of this disease. Late blight can destroy the crop, which is extremely undesirable.
In a few days, the fungus will infect all the tomato beds. If you do not take preventive measures, you may miss the onset of the disease. Many summer residents try to do without chemical treatments in order to limit the entry of toxic substances into the fruits; they try to use folk wisdom recipes and medications.
Among such proven means in the fight against late blight is pharmaceutical trichopolum.
This remedy is an antimicrobial drug and helps plants overcome a terrible disease. A similar medicine is metronidazole, which is cheaper than trichopolum and is also in deserved demand among thrifty summer residents. Preparations are used to spray tomatoes in greenhouses and open ground several times during the season. Using the above means, they carry out processing of tomatoes for preventive purposes and at the moment the spread of late blight begins. The main thing is to have time to treat tomatoes with Trichopolum before the fruit is damaged.
The use of trichopolum in a summer cottage
Summer residents have recently begun to actively use metronidazole and trichopolum in the fight against late blight of tomatoes. But the results immediately convinced everyone that this was a reliable and budget-friendly product. Thanks to the benefits of metronidazole or trichopolum, tomato processing becomes more effective. Spraying three or four times per season is enough to prevent late blight from causing much harm to tomatoes. The advantages of Trichopolum, which are noted by summer residents:
- Safety for humans. The fruits can be safely consumed after rinsing with water.
- Effective effect not only on fungal spores and pathogenic bacteria, but also on tomato pests that are avoided by plants treated with trichopolum or metronidazole.
When should I start using trichopolum or metronidazole on tomato beds? Let us recall the signs of late blight:
- the appearance of black or dirty gray spots on the leaves;
- inflorescences quickly turn yellow and black;
- if fruits have already set on the bushes, then brown spots appear on them;
- tomato stems become covered with dark spots;
- the main sign is the rapid spread of the listed symptoms.
The presence of all signs is already an active phase of the disease.
Therefore, spraying tomatoes with trichopolum (metronidazole) should begin in advance. Experienced gardeners have developed a treatment schedule that will reliably protect tomato plantings.
The disease spreads very quickly and you may be late. Therefore, carry out preventive spraying on time.
Do not skip the main periods of treating tomatoes with Trichopolum and Metronidazole:
- sowing seeds;
- picking seedlings;
- transplanting into open ground or a greenhouse.
Such treatments are preventive rather than curative, and therefore more effective. They will not allow the insidious fungus to settle on tomato bushes and prevent its rapid spread.
Timing and method of spraying tomatoes with Trichopolum
In addition to treatments in the initial stages of tomato growth, it is necessary to spray throughout the season.
- First preventive spraying tomato. Processing begins in early summer. During this period, ideal weather conditions are created for the proliferation of fungal infections on tomato bushes. Therefore, you should not limit yourself to tomato beds. Add the drug and spray other crops. Metronidazole is suitable for cucumbers, beans, cabbage, grapes, and fruit trees.
- The second treatment is carried out before the start of harvest. Best in two weeks. But if you have already noticed the appearance of rot on the leaves of tomatoes ahead of schedule, then spray without delay! In this case, the treatment will need to be carried out daily until the symptoms of the disease disappear, adding root watering with a trichopolum solution.
Some experienced summer residents advise treating with the drug once every 10 days during the season. Regular spraying can lead to the adaptation of fungi to the drug. In this case, you need to change the formulation of the treatment composition.
To prepare the solution, dilute 20 tablets of trichopolum or metronidazole in 10 liters of water. The tablets must be thoroughly crushed and diluted in a small volume of warm water. Then mix with the rest of the liquid. After 20 minutes, the tomatoes are sprayed with this mixture.
For small areas, use a sprayer; if the plantings are large enough, use a sprayer.
The following will help enhance the effect of the solution:
- Regular pharmacy green stuff. Pour one bottle of “diamond green” into the trichopolum solution and spray the tomatoes. The mixture should get on both sides of the leaves.
- Alcohol solution of iodine. One bottle is enough for a bucket of composition with trichopolum for spraying tomatoes.
Preventive spraying of tomatoes at the beginning of development is carried out with a composition with a lower concentration (10-15 tablets per bucket of water).
To prevent fungi from getting used to the drug, combine spraying with other formulations:
- Grated garlic cloves (50g) + 1 liter of kefir (it must ferment!) dilute in 10 liters of clean water. Pour the diluted mixture into the sprayer and treat the tomatoes.
- Mix one liter of whey + 25 drops of pharmaceutical alcohol solution of iodine (5%) with 10 liters of water.
To prepare solutions, summer residents more often choose metronidazole than trichopolum. Trichopolum has a fairly high price.
Treatments are carried out more than once, so it is more economical to use its analogue.
Conclusion
The effectiveness of Trichopolum has been proven by the experience of gardeners. It is used to reduce the amount of toxic substances absorbed by tomatoes when treated with chemicals. But there are products that not only protect tomatoes from diseases and pests, but at the same time supply nutritional components. Therefore, you have the right not to limit the list of drugs for spraying only to pharmacy names.Although those summer residents who correctly use Trichopolum completely get rid of late blight on their plants.
Irina, hello!
Unfortunately, you did not write what diseases you are going to save the flowers from. If we had known what problems phlox, delphiniums and lilies had, we would have given specific recommendations for treating plants.
To answer your question, we answer that flowers can be treated with both metronidazole and brilliant green.
• Metronidazole, which we better know under the name Trichopolum, is an antimicrobial and antiprotozoal (destroying protozoan organisms) drug.
• Zelenka or brilliant green is an antiseptic.
Metronidazole acts on a number of fungal plant diseases, as they are caused by protozoa. Zelenka is used in agriculture as a selective herbicide; its solution in low concentration will disinfect the plant.
In order to treat flowers, dissolve 10 metronidazole tablets in a bucket of water, pour in a teaspoon of brilliant green. Stir well, strain through a nylon stocking. To make the solution work better, add 2 tablespoons of liquid soap (but not detergent!!!).
Important! When spraying, do not neglect personal protective equipment.
But it is better to use such a solution as a preventive measure, and not when the disease has already affected the plant.For these purposes, there are many chemical and folk remedies that grow right in your garden or nearby meadows.
We would like to note that the use of chemicals is most effective for ornamental plants, since we do not use them as food.
Can it be used for spraying flowers: denphiniums, phloxes, lilies? Metronidazole + brilliant green? What is the amount of brilliant green and metronidazole for the solution? Thank you.