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Growing vegetables, berries and flowers is not only a hobby for many gardeners, but also a way to replenish the family budget. That is why they pay a lot of attention to obtaining healthy and strong seedlings. Many gardeners use 3% peroxide for seeds and seedlings.
Water after dissolving peroxide (peroxide) in it is similar in composition to melt or rain water. That is why it is very useful for the proper development of plants. Methods for using pharmaceutical antiseptics for seeds and seedlings of various crops during the growing season will be discussed in the article.
Is it possible to water plants?
The benefits of hydrogen peroxide for plants have been studied for a long time. Experts believe that systematic watering or spraying plants with a solution has a positive effect on the development of garden crops:
- the root system is healed and strengthened;
- plants get sick less, as their immunity increases;
- treating seedlings with hydrogen peroxide nourishes the plants and at the same time disinfects the soil.
So you can water the plants with a pharmaceutical product, but only 1-2 times a week.
Benefits of the product
Peroxide is essentially a natural pesticide and fungicide, a growth stimulator and a means of filling the soil with oxygen. Chemical formula H2O2. It is very similar to water molecules (H2O), but with only two oxygen atoms. This is precisely the composition of melt and rain water after a thunderstorm.
The second oxygen atom contained in the peroxide is able to detach from the molecule and enrich plants and soil with oxygen. Thanks to this, metabolic processes are enhanced, and the plants begin to feed intensively.
The presence of a redox reaction of hydrogen peroxide promotes the oxidation of nitrates and nitrites. Once in the soil, peroxide restores the manganese and iron salts needed by tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and other crops.
Peroxide for seeds
When treated with a solution of hydrogen peroxide, the seeds are disinfected, their dormant cells awaken, and seedlings appear quickly and amicably. Seedlings of peppers, tomatoes, and strawberries grown from such seeds have good immunity, tolerate transplantation and temperature changes more easily, and, most importantly, get sick less often. As a result, healthy plants produce a rich harvest of environmentally friendly fruits and berries.
Any seeds can be treated in a peroxide solution. Particular attention should be paid to seed material of which you are not sure of the quality, as well as seedlings for which you have to wait a long time for seedlings to emerge.
What is the reason for the tightness:
- The seeds of pumpkin and watermelons, cucumbers and zucchini, beets and tomatoes, and peppers have a hard shell.
- The seed material of dill and parsley, carrots and parsnips, Shabot cloves and begonias, and other flowers has a high content of essential oil.
Once in the peroxide solution, the seeds lose inhibitors and essential oils, thereby accelerating the germination process. To soak the seeds, use the following composition: 1 tablespoon of peroxide per 500 ml of water. After soaking, the seeds are washed in clean water, dried and sown in seedling boxes.
Seeds of tomatoes, peppers, beets and eggplants are soaked in a solution of 3% hydrogen peroxide for 24 hours. The rest are about 12 hours.
Tillage
When growing seedlings of vegetable crops and flowers, not only seeds are prepared. Containers and soil need to be treated. It's no secret that the soil contains disease spores and harmful bacteria, as well as insect larvae. Hydrogen peroxide is also used to disinfect soil and containers for seedlings, regardless of whether the soil was purchased in a store or made independently.
One bottle of pharmaceutical product is dissolved in 4 liters of water. You need to water the soil a few days before sowing seeds or planting seedlings to make up for the lack of oxygen. It is advisable to treat the beds with peroxide after harvesting.
Practical use
Hydrogen peroxide is widely used for seedlings of tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, as well as for growing flowers:
Peroxide for tomatoes
Gardeners in reviews note that they use hydrogen peroxide for tomato seedlings. For watering and spraying use a solution of two liters of water and 4 tablespoons of peroxide.You can water tomato seedlings with this solution every week.
Bushes of adult plants grown in open or protected ground are also sprayed with a peroxide solution after 10 days. For 2 liters of water you will need 30 ml of pharmaceutical preparation. This is not just feeding tomatoes, but also an effective means of combating pathogenic microflora on leaves, fruits and soil.
In reviews, gardeners write that tomato seedlings and adult plants respond well to fertilizing with peroxide. Sluggish, weak seedlings can be watered with hydrogen peroxide in the following proportion: 20 tablespoons per 10 liters of water. Plants quickly grow green mass, flowers and ovaries do not fall off.
Peppers
You can feed peroxide solution not only to tomatoes, but also to peppers and eggplants. They are also watered and sprayed.
For feeding pepper seedlings A solution is prepared with 3% peroxide based on one liter of water and 20 drops of a pharmaceutical product. Seedlings are watered under the root or sprayed no more than once every seven days.
Change the concentration of the solution to watering pepper seedlings no need. After all, a high dose of peroxide can destroy the delicate root system. And instead of benefiting the plants, harm will be done.
Grown pepper seedlings are constantly watered with peroxide. At this stage of development, prepare a solution of one liter of water and 2 ml of peroxide with frequent watering. If the plants are watered rarely, then add 2 tablespoons of the product per liter of water.
Peroxide against diseases
Nightshade crops, in particular tomatoes and peppers, suffer from fungal diseases. 3% peroxide also helps to cope with this problem, since the pharmaceutical product is an antiseptic.
To do this, you need to prepare a solution of 25 ml of peroxide and one liter of warm water.Spray the stems and leaves of tomatoes and peppers thoroughly with this mixture.
The scourge of nightshade crops is late blight. For treatment, you can prepare a solution from pharmaceutical preparations: add a few drops of iodine and 35 ml of peroxide per liter of water.
Before spraying, it is necessary to remove leaves and fruits affected by late blight. The plants need to be treated until the disease subsides.
cucumbers
Gardeners in reviews note the beneficial effect of hydrogen peroxide on the development and fruiting of cucumber seedlings. The solution from the pharmaceutical product not only disinfects the soil, but is also a good fertilizer.
Before sowing you can soak cucumber seeds in a peroxide solution. The recipe for preparing water with peroxide is simple: dissolve 25 ml of 3% pharmaceutical product in 500 grams of water and immerse the seeds in it. This treatment awakens the seed, feeds it with oxygen and kills pathogenic bacteria.
To water and spray cucumber seedlings, dilute a tablespoon of peroxide in one liter of clean water. To treat adult plants, prepare more solution: pour 10 tablespoons of the product into a ten-liter bucket of water.
Cucumbers are processed in the evening or in the morning before sunrise so that the leaves do not get burned. Plants are sprayed not only from above, but also from the inside of the leaf and the stem.
Strawberries
Strawberries, just like other garden plants, can be treated with peroxide:
- In the spring you need to shed the soil to prevent fungal diseases. The proportions of the solution are 1000 ml of water, 5 tablespoons of 3% product.
- Hydrogen peroxide for seedlings and adult strawberry bushes is used for spraying plants in the spring and during the growing season. This saves the plantings from gray rot and other strawberry diseases, as well as from pests.
- 2 tablespoons of peroxide are diluted in 1000 ml of water. This solution is used on garden strawberries all season, spraying the plantings every 7-10 days.
The pharmaceutical product does not harm insects and humans. Berries can be harvested a few hours after processing.
Petunias
When growing flower seedlings, gardeners try to feed them with various fertilizers. But this procedure is not always harmless. Ignorance of agricultural technology can destroy tender plants.
Peroxide, a medical product for disinfecting wounds, is harmless compared to mineral fertilizers, but the result is excellent. You can soak seeds in a peroxide solution and spray seedlings.
Peroxide working solution for feeding petunia consists of 1000 ml of water, two tablespoons of pharmaceutical product. Spraying seedlings allows you to grow healthy, lushly flowering plants.
Peroxide against diseases and pests
Peroxide is used to spray flowers and herbs to prevent diseases and pests. To do this take:
- 3% peroxide – 50 ml;
- medical alcohol - 2 tablespoons;
- liquid hand soap – 3 drops;
- water – 900 ml.
This composition helps get rid of aphids, scale insects, mealyworms, black legs. With the solution prepared immediately before work, it is necessary to carefully treat not only the leaves, but also the stems.
Contraindications
Gardeners have been using peroxide for a long time and note that the product has a positive effect on garden and vegetable plants. Although there is one contraindication.
Sometimes, after watering and spraying peppers, tomatoes, strawberries and other crops, white spots may appear on the store soil, somewhat reminiscent of mold. In this case, watering must be stopped, only periodic spraying should be done.
If such a problem occurs on soil prepared independently, then stop watering the plants and spraying for a while.
Conclusion
Hydrogen peroxide, which can be purchased at a pharmacy at an affordable price, is similar in properties to potassium permanganate. That is why, when growing seedlings of various gardening plants, you can use this product without using chemicals.
The product is used not only for soaking seeds, watering and spraying seedlings and adult plants, but also for treating the soil before planting. You can water the beds in open ground or in a greenhouse with a peroxide solution.
Hydrogen peroxide is an excellent tool for washing greenhouse surfaces and treating pots before planting.
