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Processing potatoes before planting is a crucial stage in the preparation of seed material. Correct processing is the key to a good harvest. And the best way to combat plant ailments and harmful insects is prevention.
As a pre-sowing protection before germinating seeds, you can soak or spray the tubers using folk remedies. This helps to increase germination. From pests, tubers need to be treated with special preparations.
How and how to process potatoes is up to you. And from the correct choice of method and composition for processing the harvest depends.
Against the Colorado potato beetle
- put onion peel and ash in the hole
- plants are planted in the middle of potatoes that scare off the beetle: garlic, beets, coriander, beans, calendula
- synthetic poison (Prestige drug)
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- Calendula scares the Colorado potato beetle away from potatoes
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- Onion husks and ash are placed in the hole before planting.
To increase yields
This speeds up germination and improves productivity on average. by 15%.
From disease
- Treat the ground from phytophthora with a solution Baikal M-1
- Treat the tubers with a solution copper sulfate or drug Fitosporin M.
Growth stimulator after germination
Epin - immune stimulant for potatoes. Helps the plant survive freezing and stimulates intensive growth and branching, which increases yields by 50%.
Poteytin - a proven stimulant that accelerates germination by a week, strengthens stem damage resistance and increases yields by 20%.
Bioglobin - a new generation stimulant. Made on the basis of mammalian placenta and causes a short-term doubling of the rate of cell growth. Using the drug according to the instructions, the yield doubles.
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- Epin
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- Poteytin
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- Bioglobin
Conventional seedbed preparation
From the wireworm
Against wireworm, seed potatoes are treated with the following substances:
- Taboo... Helps to protect from pests until the first 4 leaves.
- Prestige... Can be used on all varieties of potatoes, except early varieties.
From aphids
When treating tubers with the drug Commander, potatoes protect themselves not only from aphids, but also from the wireworm and the Colorado potato beetle.
Greening potatoes
In order to speed up the vegetation process of the plant, so that the plant grows healthy and with good immunity, in order to protect the plant from many diseases, seed potatoes must be subjected to the gardening process. Sunlight hitting the skin of the tubers "Turns on" the process of photosynthesis of the plant, thereby stimulating its growth.
The process is autumn and spring. In autumn lay out seed potatoes in good dry weather in a sunny place. Turn the tubers from time to time as they are planted.
In the spring the potatoes are also laid out in a well-lit place, and they also turn it over as it turns green. But you need to monitor the temperature regime (+10 +12 degrees). Sometimes, when the weather permits, they take it outside, thus hardening the planting material.
How to process potato seeds before planting
In order to get good material for planting potatoes, which does not carry hereditary diseases, you need take seeds (not tubers!) from fruits formed in autumn on a potato plant, rinse and dry them.
In the spring, treat these seeds with microelements and plant them on seedlings. It should be borne in mind that such seedlings do not tolerate picking very well. Harvesting from such plants, you need to choose the best specimens in shape and quality, regardless of size.
Substances for application to seed potatoes
Potassium permanganate
A solution of manganese sour potassium is used to process potatoes before boarding... One gram of potassium permanganate is stirred per bucket of water. The tubers prepared for planting are placed in the solution for 40 minutes.
Copper sulfate
A solution of copper sulfate is used for the same purposes as potassium permanganate. On one bucket of water, you need to put 10 grams of vitriol and the same amount of zinc sulfate.
Fitosporin
Treatment of tubers before planting is carried out by Fitosporin M from phytophthora... In one liter of water, add 60 milliliters of the liquid Fitosporin M.
Aktara
It is applied either by spraying the plant, or by applying to the ground... You need to dilute 2 grams of aktar into a bucket of water. Spray the plants once before flowering, the second time after digging up the potatoes.
Ammonia
For processing tools and spraying bushes from nematode a 10% solution of ammonia is used in the amount of 10 milliliters per bucket of water.
Boric acid
When scab appears the bed is treated with a solution of boric acid. Dilute 6 grams in a bucket of water. This amount should be poured onto 10 square meters of soil.
Maxim
The drug works well for pre-planting processing potato tubers. Having processed the planting material, it forms a protective "shell" through which diseases such as fusarium, rot, phomosis do not penetrate. For 1 liter of water, dilute 40 milliliters of the drug and spray the tubers.
Prestige
Namely: destroys almost all potato pests... The drug is endowed with fungicidal properties. Namely: it prevents the penetration of almost all diseases into the plant.
To treat the planting material with this drug, you need to prepare a solution. For 1 liter of water, add 100 milliliters of the drug. Tubers are sprayed with this solution, and after about a couple of hours, when they are dry, you can start planting in the ground.
Wood ash
The huge field of application makes ash indispensable in your garden. Potatoes are soaked in a solution of wood ash (about 100 grams per bucket) before boarding.
After bathing the seed potatoes in a solution of potassium permanganate or copper sulfate, they are sprinkled with ash. It is placed in the potato planting site at the rate of 100 grams per square meter.
Ash not only plays the role of potash fertilizer and disinfects seed material and soil, but also repels such pests as the leaf beetle.
Soaking potatoes before planting
Experienced farmers soak potato tubers for two days before planting in a special solution that feeds the seed.
They say that the germination of the plant improves, the rate of tuber formation increases, and the total potato yield increases by 15 percent.
It is very simple to make a solution for soaking with your own hands. Dissolve 40 grams in a bucket of water nitrogen fertilizers, then the same superphosphate and the same amount potassium salt... For soaking 50 kilograms of potato tubers, this should be enough.
To grow a healthy, powerful and prolific potato plant, you must avoid the possibility of disease and pest damage to the potato.
Careful soil preparation, selection of planting material and processing of potatoes before planting make this much easier. And knowing how to do it all correctly, you can grow a crop of potatoes that all neighbors will envy.
