How to Prepare and Apply Chinese Cucumber Sprinkle Mix?
Everyone loves the fruits of culture, but not everyone can take good care of them. It's not just about planting seeds in the ground. Many agrotechnical activities are carried out. These include feeding and processing plants.
Chinese blend composition
The hallmark of its use is that it does not remain in vegetables. The use is safe for the human body.
Composition:
- 1 g boric acid;
- 1 g of potassium permanganate;
- 1 g of ferrous sulfate;
- 3 g of copper sulfate;
- 100 g of urea;
Summer residents recommend adding Ordan 40 g, then the effect will increase. Combining at once the treatment against diseases and pests, feeding, stimulants, thus, several useful procedures are performed in one approach.
Since this solution does not bring harm, it is processed every 1.5-2 weeks. It is much weaker than chemicals, but after processing with it, vegetables are eaten for 2-3 days.
Chinese mixture for spraying cucumbers is used as a foliar dressing.
How to make a Chinese mixture?
Proper preparation is the key to a positive result. All points are required:
- First of all, urea is diluted. To do this, you can take a little water, or half a bucket at once. Mix thoroughly with each other.
- Boric acid is diluted in a glass of water, the temperature of which is 75-85 ⁰С. After dilution, it is added to the urea with water.
- Potassium permanganate is added to the mixture. Mix until smooth.
- Pour copper sulfate into a 10-liter bucket, pour water, dilute. Add the mixture and mix thoroughly. As a result, add up to 10 liters.
- Pour into a sprayer, start processing, the resulting composition is not stored.
All cucumber stalks are sprayed without exception. Not missing a single one.
What is it used for?
Treatment of the plant against downy mildew, powdery mildew and late blight also helps to fight the mite, and reanimate plants that begin to turn yellow.
Top dressing for cucumbers
Each summer resident has his own well-established fertilizer application system. Only a novice vegetable grower finds it difficult to understand all the intricacies of the process. Sometimes, feeding on time helps to avoid serious consequences leading to the death of plants.
The very first feeding is carried out when the plant has produced 4-5 true leaves. Use mullein, 1 liter per 10 liters of water.
The dosage cannot be increased, since the plant will begin to form a powerful green mass, and will not bear fruit.
Feed the second time in 14-21 days. Diluted chicken manure is used, 700 ml per 10 liters of water.In order not to burn the sensitive roots of plants, water around the bushes.
During the flowering period, one more feeding is carried out. Take 200-300 g of wood ash and dilute with 10 liters of water. The mixture is poured under the root.
The season ends with top dressing during the fruiting period. 500 ml of chicken manure per 10 liters of water. In addition, complex fertilizers are used, which are mixed independently.
Fertilizer combination
The main condition is not to harm. To do this, you should know exactly what to mix with what, and what is categorically not compatible.
Lime, dolomite, chalk are not combined:
- With urea.
- Ammonium sulfate.
- Ammonium nitrate.
- Manure.
- Bird droppings.
- All types of superphosphate.
- Chloride potassium, potassium salt.
- Potassium sulfate.
Manure and bird droppings are not mixed with:
- Ammonium sulfate.
- Ammonium nitrate.
The right combination of minerals and fertilizers will help plants to form strong bushes and produce a rich harvest.
Other ways of feeding and processing the crop
In addition to the Chinese mixture, other folk remedies are used for cucumbers. Their plus is that they do not harm plants and the human body.
Summer residents are advised to use a decoction of onion peel. This will require boiling water and 1 kg of husk. Insist 24-48 hours. After diluted in a ratio of 1: 5-8 parts. Spray with the prepared solution every 2 weeks. In addition to removing pathogens, the infusion feeds plants and kills aphids on cucumbers.
Using boric acid solution, you can significantly increase the yield of any crop. To do this, take 2-3 g of the substance and dilute it with 10 liters of water. All plants are treated with the finished mixture during flowering.
Experienced vegetable growers advise using fish heads as top dressing. For this, a special infusion is prepared. 2-3 heads are poured with 10 liters of water, insisted until foam forms on top. Then add 200 g of wood ash and allow to stand for another 5 hours. Water the plants that have begun to dry out, have ceased to bloom and give ovaries with the resulting mixture. It is necessary to carefully remove all the leaves without touching the points of growth and the top. The lashes are folded and pressed to the ground. After a while, sprouts will appear. After observing a little, the weak are removed, leaving 1 strongest. He will give new life to the old plant.
Summer residents advice
In order for plants to be less attacked by insects or diseases, proper care and agricultural technology are required. First of all, plants on the site or greenhouses are not placed too close. The optimal distance between bushes and rows should be calculated.
No need to overmoisten the soil. It is better to water more abundantly and less frequently. To preserve moisture, control pests, the soil is hilled or loosened after each watering. It is recommended to mulch the beds with plantings, this will save from the appearance of weeds, in the roots of which insects live that can destroy plants.
Better than any treatment, competent prevention works, taking the necessary measures will save you from crop loss.
Cucumbers should be regularly examined, when the first symptoms of any disease appear, fruits, leaves, stems, and even the entire plant are destroyed. By sacrificing one, the rest will be saved. All infected plant debris is buried deep in the ground or carried far beyond the site.
It is better to use folk remedies for the prevention and control of diseases, since they do not harm the human body.
Timely introduced top dressing becomes the reason that the disease bypasses. A strong plant resists bacteria and viruses longer.
The Chinese mixture is used by many, including the Chinese themselves. Its benefit is that by disinfecting the plant, it is a top dressing.With proper care, they get a rich harvest.
hello. I read about the Chinese mixture. its composition and when mixing you do not write about iron vitriol? how do you write what you need to mix correctly,