Types Of Seed Treatment

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Every year, experienced summer residents and gardeners are faced with such a task as acquiring seeds for planting various crops - berry, flower, vegetable. It is not uncommon to notice bright colors of the seed. Colors can be the most unusual - blue, green, red. They acquire similar shades after specially carried out treatments. They are carried out by means of insecticides and fungicides. This procedure is necessary to protect the planting material from various diseases, including fungal ones

Also, during sowing, colors of a bright character make it possible to distinguish between different crops and plants, which often becomes a difficulty for a novice gardener.

Granulated seeds are also a special type of seed. Producers germinate them up to a certain stage of development. Then they are dried well and placed in some shells of useful trace elements. As a result, during the germination period, the seeds are supplied with additional nutritional components. Thus, they acquire a huge number of positive features, which include high rates of germination and germination. Moreover, these circumstances are observed very quickly. But it is worth noting their disadvantages - the shelf life is relatively short (several months). Also, the price of such seeds is often high.

In granulated seeds, the most commonly sold planting material for flowers and carrots. As a result, summer residents can make it easier for themselves to plant these crops. For example, you can find seeds on sale in garden stores that are already prepared in advance for planting in open ground. In this case, the seeds are glued to paper strips at certain required distances from each other. The entire tape is placed in the soil at once, since the paper material will dissolve in the soil very soon. As for the seeds, they will germinate in exactly the same arrangement in which they were on the paper. This is a great time saver in seed thinning. Most of these seeds are root crops.

Foreign producers have another interesting trend - they specially dry the seeds to ensure an increase in the shelf life of the planting material. When the seed is in a state of deep calm, all physiological, biological and chemical processes in it cease. In other words, the fetus simply stops breathing.

However, such seeds will take a little longer to germinate. For their normal growth, it will be necessary to create the necessary conditions. Also, foreign manufacturers often perform grinding of seeds for sale. Thus, pubescence is eliminated from the surface of the planting material. As a result, their flowability increases, and it becomes easier and more convenient to pack planting material, in principle, as well as sowing itself. After grinding, a seed dressing gel is applied to the seed surface. It is he who creates good protection against insect pests and a variety of unpleasant diseases. Such processing can be determined by external signs on the seeds. They become dark and very small. Therefore, when acquiring such planting material, you do not need to be intimidated - this appearance is quite normal.

Imported seeds have some peculiarities. They must not be soaked before planting. Water can remove the gel protection. The nutrients in the planting material will also be removed. Such seeds become susceptible to disease and insects. Seeds from foreign producers are required to be sown dry. After sowing in the ground, they will swell and quickly get used to new conditions. In our climate, this aspect is of particular importance. If the seeds are pre-soaked, then, most likely, after three to four days in bad weather, they will rot. But dry imported seeds are not afraid of any climate change.

Some summer residents, before planting seeds, process them in a manganese solution. This allows you to destroy harmful microflora and fungi. But it is impossible to destroy in this way the internal infectious development in the seed. After the first twenty to thirty minutes of soaking in potassium permanganate, the seeds absorb a large amount of it. Even rinsing will not be able to remove the solution. The embryo of the seed often dies in such a situation. Therefore, only swollen seeds should be treated with potassium permanganate. To do this, they must be soaked in plain clean water in advance. Then only the surface of the seeds is treated with a manganese solution.