How to process potatoes before planting
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You will need
- Ash
Instructions
- Between potato bushes you need to squeeze calendula! and there won’t be any beetle! at least along the perimeter and diagonals!
- It is also useful to treat potato tubers with a 0,01% solution of succinic acid. This will increase the outflow of plastic substances from the leaves into the tubers, and more organic matter accumulates in the tubers, and this is an increase in yield. The biochemical composition of potatoes and their taste will also improve.
- Not to the detriment of the folk way – to collect it with your hands and in kerosene.
- A month before planting potatoes, prepare the tubers: transfer them to a bright room with a temperature of about 15-20 degrees and spread them in 1-2 layers for germination.Before planting, soak the tubers for 10 minutes in a solution of copper sulfate, potassium permanganate and boric acid – this will help the potatoes resist disease and develop better. Sprouted potatoes must be handled carefully so as not to break the sprouts. Each eye has 3-4 dormant buds, from which shoots are formed. The first shoots are the most productive. If you break them off, of course, a “spare” kidney will grow, but it is less productive.
- Then 3 more sprays with an interval of 5 days with such growth stimulants: potassium humate or sodium humate (according to the instructions on the package). In addition to these treatments, seed potatoes should be sprayed daily with plain water to maintain moisture. All this time, the potatoes should be in a room where the air temperature is about 15 degrees and there are daylight sources (fluorescent lamps can be used). Otherwise, the sprouts will be just white, long and brittle, but should be green, plump and strong.
Treatment of potato seeds before planting
First, tubers are treated for various diseases with such a solution: 3 teaspoon of copper sulfate is diluted with 1 liters of water. You can simply spray the tubers with this solution, or it is better to lower the whole tubers into it for a minute. After a week of disinfection, treatment is carried out aimed at accelerating germination. For this, seed potatoes are sprayed with such solutions at intervals of 5 days:
When the weather becomes steadily warm, then we can already plant our potatoes. I advise you to wait for such weather conditions when the soil is warmed up to 8-10 degrees. This will ensure quick germination and will not allow the newly planted material to freeze.
Mid-April is the best time to prepare for sowing potatoes. Many people prefer to grow it on their plots, because their own potatoes are always tasty, crumbly! Therefore, today we will talk about how potato seeds are treated before planting, which allows you to get a rich harvest and excellent taste.
Before planting, be sure to dress the potato tubers with protective and stimulating agents. One of these is the Poteytin stimulant. To spray 50-60 kg of potatoes, take one ampoule of the drug and dissolve in a liter of plain water. The treatment of tubers with various microelements shows good efficiency: boron, manganese, copper, molybdenum, zinc. All these substances are contained in the complex fertilizer “Mikom”.
Processing potato tubers allows you to multiply the yield of this crop. It is also important that some drugs have a protective effect against many pests and diseases.
Colorado beetles are well written on the Golden Lily website in the Potato section. They manage there without chemicals.
But the beetles will still postpone the larvae, it is not necessary to process the tubers, but to process the tops … about calendula, I don’t know, I’ll try it for the first time … but also, there are a lot of remedies from beetles, it helps … I spray each bush, and I also pick it up with my hands …
I will describe my method of preparing potatoes for planting
You can process the tubers with wood ash just before planting. Ash contains phosphorus, potassium and a number of important microelements – boron, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, and others so necessary for the life of plants (by the way, almost the same set is contained in cement dust – cheap and cheerful!). For this, the ash is placed in cheesecloth and the potatoes are powdered at the rate of 1 kg of ash per 50 kg of potatoes. By the way, a very useful thing – the starch content increases by 2,0-2,5%.
Immediately before planting potatoes, several methods of processing tubers are used.
Ways to prepare potatoes for planting from other gardeners
- Some gardeners process potato tubers with drugs such as Prestige, Cruiser. Of course, they very well protect potato plantings from pests such as wireworm, Colorado potato beetle, and aphids. The drug Maxim protects potatoes from scab, rhizoctonia disease, dry fusarium rot. But you need to know exactly the time during which these drugs completely decompose in the ground, otherwise the chemistry will get to your table in the form of mashed potatoes or other side dishes. In any case, when using these tools, it is not worth digging early potatoes.
- Such sprouts can easily break off when planting
- In 3 liters of water, dilute 1 teaspoon of nitrophoska or nitroammophoska;
- Seed potatoes must be prepared for planting in 30-40 days.After the autumn harvest, you, of course, selected the best seeds from the potato bushes. Now it is necessary to move the selected tubers from the basement, cellar or other cold storage place to a well-lit place with a temperature of 15-20 degrees in order for the vernalization process to begin, i.e. germination of potato buds.
After planting, various pests living in the soil can cause great harm to potato tubers: wireworm and false worms, bear, gnawing scoop, May beetle. Therefore, be sure to carry out the treatment with special insectofungicidal preparations. These include “Cruiser”, “Maxim”, “Prestige” and many others. Moreover, “Prestige” protects not only from soil pests, but also from the Colorado potato beetle. For 100 kg of potatoes, you need to dissolve 100 ml of the drug in 6 liters of water. Spread the tubers on a film and spray at least 3/4 of the surface of the vegetable.
- Seed potatoes must be prepared for planting in 30-40 days.After the autumn harvest, you, of course, selected the best seeds from the potato bushes. Now it is necessary to move the selected tubers from the basement, cellar or other cold storage place to a well-lit place with a temperature of 15-20 degrees in order for the vernalization process to begin, i.e. germination of potato buds.
- Potatoes, copper sulfate solution, potassium permanganate, stimulants, fertilizers with trace elements, insectofungicidal preparations.
- Read it.
- I heard about Prestige, but I haven’t tried it myself.
Cement dust can be applied to the soil – the effect is the same as from wood ash. In years of heavy rains, cement dust contributes to the accumulation of starch in the tubers (and as you know, excess moisture reduces the starch content). At the same time, the tubers are beautiful – of the correct shape, clean. Potatoes grown with cement dust are crumbly and taste great. The application rate of cement dust is 700-900 g per one hundred square meters.
Preparing potatoes for planting – video
Treatment of tubers with a solution of gibberalin or heteroauxin. For one day or on the day of planting, the tubers are sprayed with a solution (concentration 6-8 mg per 1 liter of water). Studies show that treating tubers with a stimulating solution gives an increase of 60-70 kg of potatoes per hundred square meters!
The better to process potato tubers before planting from the Colorado potato beetle not to harm the harvest
Olga Malysheva
How do you prepare potatoes for planting? Maybe you have your own ways, please share them in the comments.
Leonid Petrosyan
Seed potatoes are placed in boxes in 2-3 layers, laying each layer with a wet mixture of humus and sawdust. With this method of preparation for planting, tubers have not only sprouts, but also roots. The nutrient mixture must be moist throughout the entire germination period. With this method, the potatoes are obtained earlier.
Lady-N
In 3 liters of water, dilute 1 tbsp. a spoonful of fertilizer Effekton;
To begin with, I prepare such a solution: I pour a little potassium permanganate into a bucket of water so that the water turns into a rich pink color (not dark). I add a glass of wood ash and a heaped teaspoon of ammonium nitrate. The solution should be warm.
After about a week, when the potato tubers have awakened and warmed up, they should be treated with solutions of mineral fertilizers. It is good to use melt water to prepare the solution, since there is still a lot of snow outside the city. Superphosphate is bred in it with the addition of copper sulfate, potassium permanganate, urea. Treatment of potato seeds will go faster if the tubers are placed in a net and dipped in a mixed disinfectant-nutrient solution for a few minutes. Such processing will speed up the emergence of seedlings for a period of about 5 days.
Many gardeners practice heating potatoes when there is no way to germinate them in natural light. For this, the temperature in the room must be at least 18-20 ° C. Warming up is carried out for 8-10 days. Please note that very long heating will lead to the formation of long shoots that can break during planting. Because of this, the yield is reduced by 40%. The most viable are the first shoots.
Before planting, be sure to sort the potatoes by varieties so that you can then plant them in different places. To obtain a super-profitable harvest (300-400 grams of potatoes per one hundred square meters), carefully consider the pre-sowing treatment. The easiest thing to do is to sprout potato tubers in a well-lit and well-ventilated light for a month. The temperature should be cool enough: + 10 … + 15 ° С. Arrange the tubers in the boxes in a maximum of two layers. Flip the potatoes from time to time, and turn the boxes to the light on different sides. When all conditions are met, thick and strong shoots germinate on the tubers.
Nothing. beetles can still sleep for three years. fight the larvae. so it’s too early
For which year we have been treating with prestige …
elena perkova
Treatment of tubers with a solution of microelements increases the yield of potatoes and imparts resistance to diseases. The solution contains boron, manganese, copper (½ teaspoon of each drug in a bucket of water). Seed tubers are moistened with a sprayer or in another way with a solution at the rate of 1 liter per 10 kg of tubers.
Guy
Treatment with a solution of ferric chloride gives not only an increase in potatoes, but also frees the tubers from scab. And this is very important, since with scab, the tubers become covered with ulcers, which worsen the presentation and storage of potatoes.
Elena Shumova
Before planting, spray the tubers with Prestige. Protects against wireworm, Colorado potato beetle and some diseases.
Tatyana Pavlova
If you purchased the tubers right before planting, then at least 3-4 days before planting, warm them at a temperature of about 35 degrees to awaken the buds, then the seedlings will appear faster.
Solowei
In 3 liters of water, dilute 1 teaspoon of urea.
Galina Dovbnya
I dip the seed potatoes in the solution for 20 minutes. Then I take it out and put it in drawers in one layer. Then I put them in a bright room for germination. The ambient temperature should be around 10-15 degrees. I moisten the potatoes with a spray bottle every day. By the way, the room should also be humid. And so I keep it for 4-5 weeks. Immediately before planting, I dust the tubers with wood ash.
Olga
The fertilized tubers should then be placed back in a well-lit room, but not in direct sunlight. Spray the seed at least once a week with warm water to keep the potatoes from losing moisture, and flip from barrel to barrel.
Alex
The belated spring has finally begun! With the advent of the sun, the snow melts very, very quickly, so the time has come for gardeners to actively start the sowing campaign this year in order to get the harvest on their personal plots on time.
Also, a good result is shown by spraying the tubers with a solution of copper sulfate every week. The ratio is as follows: 2 grams per 10 liters of water. Alternatively, spray the tubers with a potassium permanganate solution (3 grams per 10 liters of water). Rinse and dry the potatoes before spraying. The solutions will have no effect if they come into contact with dirt on vegetables. However, the potatoes do not need to be in liquid, otherwise they will simply rot.
Sergey
If you are interested in folk remedies, then an infusion of fresh walnut leaves is suitable, pour 1 kg of leaves with boiling water and leave for 5-6 days, after processing the potato bushes, an infusion of tomato tops, a decoction of celandine, an infusion of dandelion and more described in detail on Ogorodko’s website in an article about folk remedies for the Colorado potato beetle
Evgeny Kaliberov
Before planting, we process the tubers with a prestige and save ourselves from the beetle and do not spray the potatoes.
Somewhere I heard about the fact that along with planting potatoes in the hole, you need to put a handful of onion husks. Allegedly, it helps from the wireworm and from diseases.
