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Rarely does any of the gardeners have the conditions for growing seedlings meet the standards. Most often, plants do not have enough light, heat. You can solve the problem with the help of various biostimulants. One of them, Epin Extra for seedlings, has long been popular.
Let's see what kind of drug it is, what are its advantages. But, most importantly, how to use Epin when processing peppers, tomatoes, strawberries, petunias and other plants.
Description and characteristics
Epin Extra is a man-made artificial drug. The tool has an anti-stress effect. It contains special components that can protect plants from negative environmental influences.
The drug has three medals from the All-Russian Exhibition Center, as well as a diploma from the Russian Scientific and Technical Society of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food. When the accident occurred in Chernobyl, this plant biostimulant was used to eliminate the consequences.
Seedlings treated with Epin Extra:
- protected from temperature extremes;
- tolerates drought or heavy rains;
- survives spring or autumn frosts without much loss;
- gives a higher yield, which ripens earlier than on untreated plants.
Biostimulant Epin began to be produced more than 10 years ago. But due to massive fakes, it was decided to remove it from production. Then an improved tool appeared. Spraying seedlings with Epin Extra, according to gardeners:
- promotes the development of the root system;
- increases plant resistance;
- reduces the amount of nitrates, nitrites and pesticides in finished products.
Epin Extra is produced in small plastic ampoules with a volume of 1 ml or in bottles of 50 and 1000 ml. It has a pronounced alcoholic smell and foams during dilution of the solution, since it contains shampoo.
Many gardeners are interested in how to dilute a seedling preparation in drops. So 1 ml corresponds to 40 drops.
Instructions for use
Before you start to breed Epin Extra, you need to read the instructions for use for seedlings of tomatoes, peppers and other horticultural crops. It is necessary to dilute the plant treatment agent taking into account the recommendations.
The biostimulant can be used for soaking seeds, as well as spraying vegetables, flowers in different periods of the growing season.
How to dilute a stimulant
When preparing a working solution for watering or spraying plants, you must wear rubber gloves. You need to dose the drug using a syringe:
- Clean boiled water is poured into the container, the temperature of which is not less than 20 degrees. The amount of water depends on the expected consumption.
- Using a needle, pierce the ampoule and collect the required dose of the drug.
- Add as many drops to the water as indicated in the instructions for a particular type of work. To completely dissolve the biostimulant, add a little citric acid to the water.
- Stir the nutrient water with a wooden spoon or stick.
The solution must be used within two days.The rest of the plant treatment agent can be stored in a dark room (it is destroyed in the light). If after two days all the solution is not used up, it is poured out, since it no longer represents any benefit.
Dosage
Many gardeners are interested in whether it is possible to water flowers, seedlings of vegetable crops with Epin at the root. The instructions clearly state that the drug is used only for spraying, that is, foliar feeding.
A biostimulator is used at any stage of the plant's growing season, including for seed treatment before sowing. The consumption of the preparation for individual crops is indicated in the table below.
Timing and methodology
At different stages of the growing season, for spraying plants, a solution of different concentrations is required, with the obligatory dosage taken into account, so as not to harm the seedlings:
- When 2-4 leaves appear in a liter of water, an ampoule of the drug is diluted and the seedlings are sprayed.
- Three hours before the dive, the seedlings are treated with Epin: 3 drops of the drug are dissolved in 100 ml of water. Watering helps plants survive stress if the roots are damaged.
- Before planting the plants in a permanent place, the entire ampoule is diluted in 5 liters of water. The sprayed seedlings acclimatize and take root faster, in addition, the resistance in late blight and Alternaria increases.
- When buds are formed and plants begin to bloom, 1 ml of the product is dissolved in a liter of boiled water. Thanks to this spraying of tomatoes, peppers do not shed flowers, all ovaries are preserved.
- If there is a threat of frost return, there is a strong heat or signs of disease appear, it is necessary to increase the immunity of plants by treating them with a biostimulant solution several times after two weeks. The ampoule is dissolved in 5 liters of water.
Application for different crops
Tomatoes
To soak the seeds, use a solution of 3-4 drops of Epin per 100 ml of warm water. The seed is kept for 12 hours, then sown immediately without washing.
Now let's figure out how to use Epin for tomato seedlings:
- To spray tomato seedlings before picking, use a solution of two drops of the product in a glass of water.
- According to gardeners, tomato seedlings can be sprayed the day before planting in the ground or immediately after this procedure. The solution is made more concentrated: 6 drops of the product are added to a glass of water. Plants are treated with the same solution before frost.
- When buds are formed on tomatoes, one ampoule of a biostimulator is dissolved in 5 liters of water to process the plantings.
- The last time Epin, according to gardeners' reviews, is used on tomatoes at the end of August or September, when it is time for cold fogs.
Peppers and eggplants
When growing peppers, a biostimulant is also used. For seedlings of peppers, Epin is used according to the instructions. The processing steps and dosage of the drug are identical to tomatoes.
Pumpkin crops
This crop includes cucumbers, squash and pumpkin. Features of processing cucumbers:
- First, the inoculum is treated in a pink solution of potassium permanganate, then in a biostimulator for 12-18 hours. The solution consists of 100 ml of warm boiled water and 4 drops of a biostimulator.
- You need to spray cucumbers when 3 true leaves appear, or before transplanting, if the plants were grown in a nursery. Epin for cucumber seedlings is diluted as follows: 6 drops of the product are added to 200 ml of water.
- Cucumbers are sprayed with the same solution in the budding phase and the beginning of flowering.
- Then the treatments are repeated several more times every 2 weeks.
Strawberry
- Before planting seedlings of this culture, they are soaked in a biostimulant solution in a proportion of 0.5 ampoules per 1000 ml of water.
- Seven days after planting, strawberry seedlings are sprayed with this Epin solution: one ampoule is dissolved in five liters of water.
- The next processing is carried out when the strawberries release buds and begin to bloom, with the same composition.
Strawberry plantings are processed in the spring to save the plants from frost after harvesting last year's leaves by dissolving 1 ampoule of a biostimulant in 5 liters of water. In the fall, when the harvest is harvested and the leaves are cut, strawberries are sprayed with a more concentrated composition: 4-6 drops of Epin Extra are dissolved in a glass of water. You can process the plantings in October (an ampoule is dissolved in 10 liters of water) if a winter with little snow is expected. This will boost the immunity of the strawberry.
Biostimulant for flowers
According to gardeners, Epin is also useful for flower seedlings. Dilute the product in accordance with the instructions. Dissolve 8-10 drops of a biostimulator in a liter of water. 500 ml of the resulting solution is enough to process 10 square meters. Spray the flowers after planting in a permanent place to reduce stress, adapt quickly and take root. You can repeat the treatment after two weeks with the same composition of the solution.
When and how to spray
For work, they choose a clear evening without wind. You need to spray with a fine spray nozzle. This is an important condition, because the droplets of the solution should settle on the leaves, and not on the soil.
Treatment of plants with a biostimulant also helps in the fight against pests, since the hairs become tough, it is impossible to bite through them. The biostimulator does not kill pests, but helps to increase the vitality of the plant, activates its resistance.
Some gardeners use Zircon. They are interested in which is better, Epin or Zircon for seedlings.
It should be noted that both preparations are good, they are used for treating seeds, seedlings and adult plants. Only Zircon acts on plants more rigidly, therefore, when breeding, you need to be extremely careful.
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