Almost all plants need to be protected from diseases and pests. To do this, you can use chemicals or look for something natural. In this case, biological preparations are increasingly used. One of them is "Gamair". How to apply this plant medicine and what is its advantage?
Description of biological product
There are still few biological preparations. One of them is "Gamair". It was created by the specialists of CJSC "Agrobiotechnology" (Moscow). Designed to destroy pathogens of bacterial diseases of most cultivated plants. The remedy also helps with some fungal diseases.
The active substance of this medicine is beneficial microbes - antagonists of soil fungi Bacillus subtilis.
Gamair is produced in the form of gray-brown loose tablets and SP - a dry powder that dissolves easily in water. The powder is more convenient to use on large areas for processing vegetables, fruit trees and shrubs. per hectareuse from 300 to 5 thousand liters.
Applied for spraying adult plants or for tillage before sowing seeds. The drug successfully fights powdery mildew, root and gray rot, moniliosis and scab on trees.
Tablets are more convenient to use for the treatment of small areas. Application rates - 1-2 bags of 10 tablets per hundred square meters.
After using the drug, a quick effect is noted. Its action begins almost immediately after processing. This makes it possible to overcome diseases in the initial stages.
The medicine is not dangerous for people, warm-blooded animals and fish. "Gamair" has low toxicity, it is classified as class IV in terms of danger to humans. The substance does not accumulate in roots, berries and fruits, leaves and stems of plants. The drug, according to the instructions, can be used in any phase of their development. It has no phytotoxicity.
How to use the drug "Gamair"
Instructions for use advises the right amount of tablets to be immersed in a glass of non-cold water, mix thoroughly. Then add water to get a certain amount of solution.
In order for the preparation to stick better on the leaves, an adhesive is added to it. It can be soap or a special growth accelerator bought in a store, for example, Epin. It only needs 1 mg per bucket of water.
The resulting solution is thoroughly mixed again, pour it into the sprayer. Plants are treated periodicallyshaking the balloon. After watering with the drug, the area is dug up.
When working with the drug, you need to remember that it contains living organisms. Therefore, it is necessary not to damage them, but to create good conditions for them to live. Do not immerse tablets in hot water. After all, it can destroy bacteria, which will nullify all the benefits of using the drug.
What crops are treated with Gamair
Tests have shown that "Gamair" has a positive effect on cereals, potatoes. Tubers are treated in solution immediately before planting. With its help, cucumbers and tomatoes of open and closed ground are protected. They use Gamair to protect white and cauliflower.
Instructions for use, reviews liquid working solution is advised to be used to protect and treat fruit trees, shrubs, strawberries. It has a selective effect on some pathogens of indoor flowers.
Using Gamaira for tomatoes
Tomatoes are grown in the garden and in greenhouses. In order for the fruits to be clean and not hurt, it is advised to use "Gamair" instructions for use, reviews. When to treat plantings and what doses?
For tomatoes in a greenhouse from bacterial cancer, the soil is watered even before planting, for three days, with a suspension. On a bucket of water you need to take 2 tablets of the drug. To combat white and gray rot, you need to take 10 tablets for the same portion of water. Spray plants during the appearance of buds, untilformation of tomatoes. Repeat treatments after 15 days. The maximum quantity is 3.
For tomatoes growing in a garden or field, Gamair is also used. Instructions for use, reviews advise treating plants to combat various rots. To prepare the medicine, two tablets are diluted in a bucket of water. The resulting liquid is used to cultivate the soil two days before planting tomatoes.
Treatment for late blight is carried out every 2 weeks. The first time - during the appearance of buds. Dilute 1 tablet in a liter of water. Processed three times during the season.
Cucumber Processing
Cucumbers in greenhouses are often affected by gray rot. To combat it, it is advised to use "Gamair" instructions for use, reviews. When to process cucumbers and how to prepare a working solution?
2 tablets of the drug are diluted in three liters of water. Spraying is carried out from the beginning of the appearance of buds to the formation of cucumbers. Processing is carried out 2 times per season. Up to 20 liters of working solution are used for one hundred square meters.
Cucumbers that grow in open beds are also treated for rot. Two tablets are added to a bucket of water. Spill the soil a few days before sowing the seeds. The number of treatments per season is two.
Gamair is also used to combat peronosporosis. Instructions for use and reviews advise spraying cucumbers twice a month after the appearance of buds. 1 tablet of the drug is added to 1 liter of water. During the season, 2 treatments are carried out. For watering 1 weave you need a bucketsolution.
Cabbage Processing
Gamair (tablets) is also used to protect cabbage. Instructions for use, reviews advise using them for the treatment and prevention of black leg, bacteriosis. A suspension is prepared from the black leg by dissolving 1 tablet in 5 liters of water. Shed the soil and a few days before sowing the seeds. Carry out one treatment per season. A bucket of Gamaira solution is added to 10 liters of area.
Instructions for use, reviews recommend diluting 1 tablet in a liter of water to protect against bacteriosis. Then the plants are sprayed, starting with the formation of 4 true leaves, then every 2-3 weeks.
Processing fruit trees
Use "Gamair" for processing fruit trees, including apple trees, cherries from scab and moniliosis. Dissolve 1 tablet of the drug "Gamair" per liter of water. Instructions for the use of tablets advises to process plants per season no more than three times. The first time spraying is carried out when the flower buds are just about to open, the second - after flowering. The last time - when the size of the fruit reaches 2-3 cm. Up to 5 liters are used to process one tree.
Processing houseplants
Helps processing "Gamair" from diseases of flowers. Make a tablet in 5 liters of water. For one flower pot, it takes from a glass to a liter of the product. 5 liters of solution are applied per 1 square meter in open ground. Some gardeners have a question: is it necessary to water the soil before using Gamaira? Not necessarily, you can immediately apply the medicine.
When treating flowers from spotting, plants are sprayed during the period of active growth with the drug "Gamair". Instructions for the use of tablets recommends adding 2 of them per liter of water. During the season, up to three treatments of indoor plants and flowers in the flower bed are carried out.
User reviews are advised to use the medicine in this way: pour 70 mg into a pan with a capacity of half a liter with water at room temperature, set a flower in it.
"Gamair" instructions for use for orchids advises using it together with "Alirin" (1 tablet each) and "Fitosporin" (2 g) per 5 liters of water. The resulting solution is treated with the roots of flowers by dipping the pot in a bowl with a solution. Repeat orchids with problematic roots are processed in a month.
User reviews say that the drug helps in the initial stages of the defeat of peonies and irises with root rot. But deep inside the soil, it works worse. Therefore, for indoor flowers, when affected by root rot, it is better to remove the flower from the soil, treat it with a preparation, and then transplant it into a new soil.
Compatibility with other drugs
The drug "Gamair" instructions and reviews are advised to be used together with the "Alirin" remedy. In this case, instead of 2 tablets of "Gamaira" take one of each of these drugs. You can also use these drugs together with "Gliocladin" according to the following scheme:
- Seeds are treated for 2 hours in a solution of "Gamair" and "Apirin-B". 5 tablets are added per liter of water.
- Before planting seedlings or sowing seeds in the soiladd "Gliocladin" - 1 tablet per 0.5 l of earth. A week later, the plot is watered with Alirin-B and Gamair in equal parts, 2 tablets per seedling pot. The soil is cultivated with a cutter to a depth of 15 cm. The film of greenhouses and its structures are disinfected.
- Three days after planting seeds or seedlings, the plot is watered with Alirin-B. 2 tablets of the drug are used per bucket of water.
- A month after planting, Gamair and Alirin-B are added 2 tablets per bucket of water.
- After a month, repeat the treatment, increasing the dose of "Gamair" by one and a half times.
Instructions for use, reviews claim that in addition to these biological products, insecticides from the Colorado potato beetle and other harmful insects are successfully used. But only natural, not chemical. Growth regulators, mineral fertilizers can be added to the sprayer bottle.
You cannot use Gamair and chemical fungicides at the same time. They will destroy the microorganisms that are the basis of the drug. You can use "Gamair" not earlier than a couple of weeks after using the "chemistry".
Benefits of using Gamaira
Gamair has the following advantages:
- It quickly restores soil microflora.
- Works as a prophylactic.
- Qualitatively fights pathogens.
- The amount of vitamins and minerals increases in fruits.
- Increases the taste of products.
- The drug is environmentally friendly, notcontains chemical compounds.
- After its application, the yield of plants increases.
- The tool is not addictive, so you can use it for a long time.
- Using this plant medicine is cost effective.
- Completely dissolves in water.
- It is easy to process plants with it.
Users claim that Gamair acts like Fitosporin, which is also a natural drug, but much more effective.
Disadvantages of the drug
The drug copes better with superficial diseases, and worse with deep ones.
Users note that the tablets crumble a lot. Therefore, it is difficult to understand how much medicine is collected. Violation of the integrity of the tablets is due to the fact that they are very loose.
Storage of medicine and ready solution
The finished solution cannot be stored for a long time. It must be used the same day it was prepared, within 2 hours.
Although the tablets are not toxic, they should be stored separately from food. It is impossible to cook food for people and animals in the dishes that were used to dissolve the medicine. Children should not have access to the drug.
Dry matter can be stored for a year and a half from the date of manufacture. Some packages have a shelf life of 3 years. The advantage of the drug is that it can be stored in frosty weather. It does not lose its properties even at 30 degrees below zero. Maximumstorage temperature - 30 degrees Celsius.
Precautions
It is necessary to work with the drug using personal protective equipment. Yet sometimes the unexpected happens. If you got into the mouth and swallowed "Gamair", instructions for use, reviews recommend rinsing your mouth with clean water, drinking plenty of water with a couple of tablets of activated charcoal. Induce vomiting to remove the drug from the body. Seek medical attention.
If particles of the drug or solution splashes get on the mucous membrane of the eye, rinse it with a stream of cold water.
