How to feed tomatoes with hydrogen peroxide: from seeds to fruits

It takes a lot of effort to grow a good crop of tomatoes in your favorite beds. Including, fertilizing and disinfection are required. Hydrogen peroxide (peroxide), familiar to everyone from childhood, copes well with these tasks. This cheap drug has antiseptic properties and is an oxidizing agent. Chemical formula - H₂O₂... And it is useful as a planting stimulant and pest protection.

The benefits of hydrogen peroxide for tomatoes

The properties of hydrogen peroxide useful for tomatoes are:

• disinfection of soil before planting plants;
• aeration of the soil;
• increased seed germination;
• disinfection of affected plant areas;
• neutralization of excess nitrates;
• oxygen delivery to plant roots;
• improving the assimilation of microelements by plants;
• prevention of late blight.

For reference
Hydrogen peroxide helps not only tomatoes, but also peppers and cucumbers.

By itself, hydrogen peroxide is not a fertilizer. It only serves as a stimulant and "trigger" that improves metabolic processes in tomatoes and other crops. It must be applied correctly and carefully so as not to harm vegetables due to incorrect concentration of the agent.

Soil treatment

3-5 days before moving seedlings in open ground or in a greenhouse, experienced gardeners advise to treat the ground with a solution of hydrogen peroxide. To do this, dilute 180 ml of the product in 9 liters of water (in a large bucket). The peroxide dissolves well without any extra effort.

About two liters of solution are added to each well. Thus, they fight against possible pests, disinfect the soil. Due to the presence of an additional oxygen atom in the peroxide composition, the soil is aerated at the same time.

Planting material processing

Treatment of tomato seeds with hydrogen peroxide contributes to their disinfection and improves germination. To do this, it is necessary to soak the planting material in a 10% solution for 15-20 minutes, then rinse and allow to dry.

To increase the yield, tomato seeds are left for 12 hours in a 0.4% solution of the product, they are also washed with clean water and dried. The outer shell is destroyed under the influence of peroxide, the seeds germinate faster.

Seedlings and peroxide

In some countries, it has long been customary to water tomato seedlings with hydrogen peroxide. Thus, they increase the resistance of the root system to harmful factors and diseases. For this purpose, it is recommended to dilute 2 tablespoons of 3% peroxide in a liter of warm water and water the tomato seedlings. Such feeding is performed once a week, it makes young plants stronger and stimulates their good growth.

Watering and spraying

In adult plants, lesions on the stems are treated with peroxide, which then need to be covered with a special material. To combat fungal infections, spraying with a peroxide solution is used. To do this, 20 ml of the substance is stirred in a liter of water and filled into a finely dispersed spray bottle.

Spraying is carried out in the morning or in the evening, once every two weeks at any stage of plant development. This operation should not be performed in windy, rainy or very hot weather. Only tomato leaves are sprayed. Spraying tomatoes with hydrogen peroxide improves oxygen access to stems and leaves, and disinfects them.

Once a week, adult plants are watered with water containing 3% hydrogen peroxide dissolved in it.This substance, decomposing in the soil, does not pose any threat to the environment, but it is beneficial, increasing the yield of tomatoes, disinfecting the soil, enriching it with oxygen, destroying viruses, and preventing fungal infection.

Watering your plants needs to be done correctly to really benefit your plants.

Fundamental rules:

• so that moisture penetrates into the soil not less than 10 cm;
• you cannot erode the soil around the stem of the plant, especially, bare the roots;
• water for irrigation should be warm, settled, preferably rain or artesian (no chlorine);
• you need to moisten tomatoes abundantly, but not more often than once a week;
• when watering with hydrogen peroxide, you should try to prevent the solution from getting on the stems and leaves of tomatoes.

Advice! Watering is carried out in the morning or evening. During the day, in the heat, in the bright sun, drops of water on the leaves serve as a kind of magnifying glass and lead to severe burns of plants.

Hydrogen peroxide is successfully used by gardeners as a top dressing, disinfectant and therapeutic and prophylactic agent in the cultivation of many vegetable garden crops, including tomatoes. However, when using, you need to follow simple rules and recommendations that relate to the concentration of the solution and the features of the application. And then a high yield of tasty and healthy vegetables is provided.