Modern gardening and floriculture is unthinkable without the use of fertilizers and growth stimulants. Some use them at the stage of growing seedlings, others feed adult plants to protect them from diseases. There are many who use Zircon as their main fertilizer. The instructions for it will help even an inexperienced gardener figure out how to use this drug, when, in what doses.
Medication description
The product has a light yellow color with a green tint. It comes in liquid form and smells like alcohol. It is important that its active component is destroyed by exposure to light, so treatment should be carried out in the evening or morning hours.
The product itself is not a fertilizer. "Zircon" refers to immunomodulators, whose task is to reduce the negative external impact on plants and activate their internal forces. In other words, it affects cultureslike fertilizer.
The manufacturer in the description indicates that the drug is not recommended for use as the only top dressing, since it does not contain nutrients. But in combination with fertilizer, the drug is indispensable. It not only enhances the effect of top dressing, but also prolongs it.
Useful properties
Fertilizer "Zircon" has a wide range of activities. It leads to better rooting of seedlings, cuttings. The tool is suitable not only for deciduous crops, but also for conifers.
Other useful properties of the drug:
- Improves growth, flowering, fruiting.
- Accelerating seed germination.
- Increases crop germination.
- Maturation occurs one and a half to two weeks faster.
- Plants develop resistance to frost, drought, waterlogging, lack of light.
- The harvest is of the highest quality.
- Yield increased by 50%.
- Ornamental plants bloom much earlier.
- Reduces the likelihood that the crop will be affected by powdery mildew, late blight, Fusarium and other ailments.
What is it about this remedy that makes it so effective?
Composition
Fertilizer "Zircon" consists of substances that are released from Echinacea purpurea. The preparation also includes caffeic, chlorogenic, chicory acids dissolved in alcohol. That is, it is a herbal remedy. If diluted in water, foam will appear.
Drug production
The only manufacturer of the biostimulant is the NNPP "NEST M". The rest of the companies only package finished products and supply similar products to the market. You can buy ampoules of one milliliter, as well as bottles and canisters made of plastic with a volume of one, five, ten and twenty liters.
The average price of Zircon fertilizer is 20-50 rubles per milliliter. It contains forty drops of the substance.
General instructions for use
The drug is not used in its pure form. It is made into an aqueous solution. To do this, take a glass, plastic or enameled container. It is forbidden to use galvanized utensils. If the drug in the ampoule has stratified, but the expiration date has not passed, shake it well enough to form a homogeneous mass.
Solution preparation technology:
- A third of the required volume of water is added to the container.
- The drug is added to it.
- The capsule containing the solution is filled with water.
- The resulting liquid is poured into a common container.
- The remaining two-thirds of the water is added.
- The mixture is thoroughly mixed.
After preparing the solution, it must be used within a day, but if necessary, it can be stored for another two days. For this, several crystals of citric acid are added to five liters of the finished liquid. Keep the solution in a dark place. If you follow the instructions, the Zircon fertilizer will cope with the tasks. Its effectivenessproven by multiple examples.
Soaking
To soak the planting material, the prepared solution from the Zircon fertilizer must be at the same temperature as the environment. It is necessary to immerse seeds, bulbs, tubers in it. Different plants have their own specific norms.
Dosage and soaking time for specific crops:
- Cucumbers. For any variety, you will need to dilute five drops of the drug in one liter of water. Soaking time six to eight hours.
- Potatoes. One liter of water will require twenty drops of biostimulant.
- Vegetables. For various crops, you need ten drops of the product per liter of water. The soak will last six to eight hours.
- Flowers. Zircon is also very widely used for these plants. To soak the seeds or the root system of plants, you will need to pour the contents of one ampoule into one liter of water. Keep in solution for six to eight hours.
- Gladiolus. These flowers will need to make a mixture of twenty drops of the drug and one liter of water. The soaking process will take one day.
- Bulb crops. It is necessary to dilute forty drops of the biostimulant in one liter of water. The bulbs should spend eighteen to twenty-four hours in the mixture.
- Shanks. The solution should consist of the contents of one ampoule of the drug and one liter of water. Processing time twelve to fourteen hours.
The components of the drug are destroyed in natural light,therefore, the procedures should be carried out in a room where there is no sunlight and electric light.
There are other ways to use Zircon fertilizer.
Spraying
When the plants are in the vegetative stage, they can be sprayed with a working solution. For the procedure, a calm morning is suitable, and evening is better. The leaves are evenly wetted with the prepared solution. If we are talking about a plant that has undergone stress in the form of a transplant, a decrease in air temperature, a disease, then it is treated with a biostimulant once a week.
To improve the condition of fruit trees, it is necessary to make a working solution from the contents of one ampoule of the preparation and ten liters of water. Trees are sprayed completely. During processing, a lot of solution will go away. You can use a special micro-sprayer. In any case, a he althy and abundant harvest will make up for the money and time spent.
For spraying berries, you will need a different concentration of the drug. So, eleven to thirteen drops of the stimulant are taken per liter of water. Shrubs have their own dosage: eighteen to twenty drops of the drug per liter of water. If you spray at the time of the formation of inflorescences, they will bloom much faster.
Vegetable crops should be processed before the fruit appears. For spraying potato bushes, four drops of the drug are diluted in one liter of water. The procedure should be carried out after the full emergence of shoots and the beginning of budding.
Seedling processing
Gardeners use a biostimulant for young seedlings of various crops. What concentration is prescribed in the instructions for seedlings? Fertilizer "Zircon" will need only four drops. They are bred in one liter of water.
Young shoots are watered from the syringe very carefully. Fluid should get between the rows. The procedure is repeated every three days. It takes place over ten days. Fragile leaves can be processed separately. For this, a thin brush for watercolor paints is suitable. With its help, you need to shake a couple of drops on problem shoots. It is also worth processing seedlings a few days before planting in open ground. At the time of planting in the wells, you can add a couple of tablespoons of the finished solution. Then all plants will take root.
Irrigation
For watering, there is its own instructions for use. Fertilizer "Zircon" is added to the water with the calculation of one ampoule per ten liters of liquid. Roses can be watered so that the solution runs down the stems and onto the soil. It is important that on the day of treatment (and preferably within three days after it) there was no rain. Then the effect will be 100%. Depending on the desired result, the procedure can be repeated several times with a break of four to five days.
Compatibility with other drugs
"Zircon" can and even should be used with various top dressings, vitamins. The drug is combined with insecticides that protect garden and ornamental crops from pests. It doesn't matter what origin they are.biological or synthetic.
"Zircon" is compatible with fungicides that prevent fungal compounds from infecting plants. They may also be of biological or synthetic origin.
However, it is not recommended to use a biostimulator in combination with fertilizers that have an alkaline reaction. Also, Zircon cannot be combined with Bordeaux and Burgundy liquids.
Before carrying out complex processing, drugs should be checked for compatibility. To do this, combine both components together and look at the reaction. If a precipitate forms in the mixture, the products should be used separately from each other.
Security Issues
Since the drug is based on plant ingredients that are not poisonous, it is harmless to humans. It is also safe for insects that pollinate plants. The biostimulator does not pollute groundwater and does not lead to the death of fish. Food products that have been grown using "Zircon" can be used in dietary nutrition. It is permissible to give them to children.
However, the elementary rules of protection when working with this drug should be followed. These include the use of protective clothing, a ban on smoking and eating during work. After the procedure, you must take off your clothes and wash.
When watering plants, the soil should be well moistened beforehand. Then there will be no risk of burning the root system.
Zircon fertilizer is widely used for indoor plants. There are many reviews on this topic on the net.
Examples of saving plants
There are many situations where indoor flowers are under a lot of stress. So, in one of the reviews it was described that after the appearance of a cat in the house, problems began with the plants. The animal constantly dug up the ground, after which the flowers had to be replanted. As a result, they shed their leaves and withered. After processing the leaves and soil with a solution, the situation changed for the better. Ficus, anthurium and many other flowers have been saved. They have new leaves. "Zircon" helped in this.
Fertilizer for plants (biostimulator) perfectly helps plants recover after transplantation. Many flower growers note its positive effect even on exotic crops. As soon as the flower begins to dry, blacken, turn yellow, it is enough to treat it with the preparation, and it will be resuscitated. Because of this, many flower growers always keep a couple of ampoules at home.
Zircon fertilizer, reviews of which are only positive, can save even a dying flower. In one example, almost the entire root system of the dracaena rotted. The plant was dying before our eyes. After treatment with the drug, he began to grow new roots.
It is also used by lovers of violets. During spring and autumn transplants, their roots are damaged. The drug corrects the situation. However, violet owners note that when overdosed, their green spaces grow excessively large. This is not always beautiful, because the inflorescences are not visible behind the huge leaves. This only confirms the fact that everything needs a measure.
