A great way to improve the quality of your seed fund is to soak the seeds in hydrogen peroxide before planting. Plants grown from such seeds, healthy, have a well-developed root system, powerful growth. And the germination of seeds rises, they germinate faster.
Soaking seeds in hydrogen peroxide
Having tried in practice, which gives soaking of seeds in hydrogen peroxide, gardeners-gardeners become fans of this method, which, besides positive influence on seeds and future plants, is also absolutely inexpensive, simple in execution and accessible to anyone who has decided to grow something from seeds. It is especially important to process the seed material that you collected on your own site or received from another gardener, rather than bought in a seed shop, because the seeds can be infected with all sorts of diseases.
How to dilute hydrogen peroxide for soaking seeds?
Before using hydrogen peroxide to soak seeds, it should be diluted with water. Nothing difficult: pour a half-liter jar of clean water, pour in the same 3-percent hydrogen peroxide, stir. Such a solution can be used to soak seeds of any plants before planting. Only before you lower the seeds into a mixture of peroxide with water, soak from minutes to 30-40 in plain water. In dilute hydrogen peroxide, the seeds can withstand up to 12 hours, although there are exceptions - for tomatoes, beets, the time is increased to 24 hours.
How to determine the quality of seeds when soaking?
Another positive moment when soaking before planting is the identification of empty, defective, substandard seeds. When you lower the seeds into a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide, mix it lightly and remove all the pop-up seeds. Of these, or nothing will sprout, or grow weak, painful, lean plant. Even if you know which seeds come up when soaking, do not rush to cut from the shoulder, keep in mind - some plants have "floating" seeds and in that case all the seeds can float on the surface.
Methods for soaking seeds before planting
Gardeners and truck farmers use both conventional and the most creative ways of soaking seeds before planting them. The traditional way, when the seeds are wrapped in a damp cloth, is probably known to everyone. Its disadvantage is that a constant control of the moisture of the tissue is required. If you accidentally miss and the fabric dries, when the seeds have already begun to "peck", they will die. The same applies to the soaking methods in toilet paper, cotton pads and the like. Inventive people found new ways of soaking, devoid of this shortcoming.
Soaking seeds in peroxide in the twine
Another way to soak seeds in hydrogen peroxide is the use of twisting from a normal sachet and toilet paper. Toilet paper is better to use more dense and soft. Procedure:
- Prepare a solution of hydrogen peroxide in water (per liter of water - 1 tablespoon) and pour it into a container with a spray gun.
- Tear off the strip (no longer than 40 cm) from the roll of packages for breakfast (you can also from garbage bags) and spread it on the table.
- Place a strip of toilet paper on the film and moisten it abundantly.
- On wet paper, spread the seeds with a toothpick moistened with water, and cover the seeds with one more stripe of paper. Dampen the top layer of paper.
- The distance on which seeds should be placed from the top edge of the package is 1-2cm, the distance between the seeds depends on the size of the seeds.
- Twist your multilayered "cake" in the form of a roll and fasten with a packing rubber band so that it does not turn around.
- In a glass to establish twisting upright, seeds upwards, to pour on a bottom a solution of peroxide in water (1,5-2,5 sm)
- Cover the cigarette with a package, put in a warm place.
Soaking seeds in a sponge
Soaking seeds in a solution of hydrogen peroxide using conventional household sponges is a relatively new method that has not yet become well known. The algorithm for the action of such soaking before planting the seeds:
- Take the two new foam sponges.
- Prepare a solution of water with hydrogen peroxide (for half a liter of water - 1 teaspoon).
- Dampen the first sponge in the solution and squeeze.
- Place the seeds on the surface of the sponge.
- The second sponge moistened like the first.
- Cover the second sponge with seeds located on the first sponge and fix the sponges between each other with elastic bands.
- The resulting "sandwich" put in a bag and tie it.
- Put the seeds in a warm place (23-25 ° C).
Whichever methods you use to soak your seeds in hydrogen peroxide before planting them, do not seek to dunk the bulk of the seeds in a new way for you. It would be more rational to make one or more experimental groups for unverified methods, and dunk the remaining seeds more than once with the tried method to find out if this option is suitable for you and how your seeds will react to it.