To obtain a quality and abundant harvest, gardeners always resort to seed soaking. With regard to potatoes, it will have to be processed twice: first to help the tubers germinate and prepare for planting, then protect them from pests and diseases. Treatment with copper sulfate is considered to be protective and stimulating measures, potato seeds, it will render service twice before planting. And from the ecological point of view it's safe.
Copper sulphate for potatoes
Precondensation treatment with copper sulfate begins not with cooking potatoes for the solution itself. This item is almost the last in the general preparations for planting. Everything happens in three stages:
- Approximately two weeks before planting, even before processing with copper sulfate, the planting material of the potato needs to germinate . Your task is to find a warm place with scattered light, then lay the tubers and wait for the greening. A characteristic green shade makes tubers resistant to many diseases.
- Although the treatment before planting with copper sulfate and refers to methods for improving the yield of potatoes, but from special means for good seed growth should not be discarded. Right in the boxes you can sprinkle tubers with a solution of wood ash, good results are given by "Immunocytophyte".
- Processing of potatoes with copper sulfate is carried out immediately before planting. To use for potatoes in a ten-liter bucket, we mix a teaspoon of copper sulfate, as well as potassium permanganate with boric acid. Very carefully we shift the potatoes into a grid and dip them in a bucket for 15 minutes. As a result, copper sulfate will not only save from phytophthora, but will also protect the potato from the harvest of other diseases. And right after processing, you can roll the tubers in the wood ash.