Modern gardening and floriculture is unthinkable without the use of fertilizers and growth stimulants. Some use them at the stage of growing seedlings, while others feed adult plants to protect them from diseases. A lot of those who use Zircon as the main fertilizer. The instructions for it will help even an inexperienced gardener figure out how to use this drug, when, in what doses.
Description of the drug
The product has a light yellow color with a green tint. It is available in liquid form, 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, the task of which is to reduce the negative external effects on plants and activate their internal forces. In other words, it affects crops like fertilizer.
The manufacturer in the description indicates that the drug is not recommended to be used 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 feeding, but also prolongs it.
Beneficial features
The Zircon fertilizer has a wide range of actions. It leads to a better rooting of seedlings, cuttings. The tool is suitable not only for deciduous crops, but also conifers.
Other useful properties of the drug:
- Improves growth, flowering, fruiting.
- Accelerates seed germination.
- Increases the germination of crops.
- Ripening occurs one and a half to two weeks faster.
- The plants develop resistance to frost, drought, waterlogging, lack of light.
- The crop is of the highest quality.
- Productivity increases by 50%.
- Ornamental plants bloom much earlier.
- The likelihood that the culture will be affected by powdery mildew, late blight, fusarium and other ailments is reduced.
What in this tool makes it so effective?
Composition
Zircon fertilizer consists of substances that are secreted from purple coneflower. Also, the drug includes coffee, chlorogenic, chicory acid, dissolved in alcohol. That is, it is a herbal remedy. If you dilute it in water, a foam will appear.
Drug production
The only manufacturer of biostimulant is the company NNPP "NEST M". The rest of the companies only pack up the finished products and supply similar products to the market. You can purchase ampoules of one milliliter each, as well as bottles and cans 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. An aqueous solution is made from it. For this, a glass, plastic or enameled container is taken. Do not use galvanized dishes. If the preparation in the ampoule has exfoliated, but the shelf life has not expired, shake it well enough to form a homogeneous mass.
Solution preparation technology:
- A third of the required volume of water is added to the tank.
- A drug is added to it.
- The capsule in which the solution was filled is filled with water.
- The resulting liquid is poured into a common tank.
- The remaining two-thirds of the water is added.
- Mix thoroughly.
After preparing the solution, it must be used within a day, but if necessary, it can be stored for another two days. For this, five crystals of citric acid are added to five liters of the finished liquid. Store the solution in a dark place. If you follow the instructions, the Zircon fertilizer will cope with the tasks. Its effectiveness is proven by numerous examples.
Soak
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. For various plants, their specific norms are prescribed.
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 is six to eight hours.
- Potatoes. Twenty drops of a biostimulant are required per liter of water.
- Vegetables. For various crops, ten drops of the drug per liter of water are needed. Soaking 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.
- Gladioli. 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.
- Bulbous crops. It is necessary to part forty drops of a biostimulant in one liter of water. In the mixture, the bulbs should spend eighteen to twenty-four hours.
- Cuttings. 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, so the procedure 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 growing phase, they can be sprayed with a working solution. For the procedure, a calm morning is suitable, and preferably evening. Leaves are uniformly wetted with prepared solution. If we are talking about a plant that suffered stress in the form of transplantation, lowering air temperature, disease, then it is treated with a biostimulator 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 drug and ten liters of water. Trees are sprayed completely. In the process of processing a lot of solution will leave. You can use a special micro spray. In any case, a healthy and plentiful harvest will make up for the money and time spent.
To spray the berries, you need a different concentration of the drug. So, one liter of water takes eleven to thirteen drops of a stimulant. For shrubs, there is a dosage: eighteen to twenty drops of the drug per liter of water. If you spray at the time of formation of inflorescences, then they will bloom much faster.
Vegetables should be processed before the appearance of the fruit. To spray potato bushes in one liter of water, four drops of the drug are diluted. The procedure should be carried out after the emergence of seedlings and the beginning of budding.
Seedling treatment
Gardeners use a biostimulant for young seedlings of various crops. What concentration is spelled out in the instructions for seedlings? Zircon fertilizers will require only four drops. They are bred in one liter of water.
Young shoots are poured out of the syringe very carefully. The fluid should fall between the rows. The procedure is repeated every three days. It is carried out for ten days. Fragile leaflets can be treated 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 the plants take root.
Watering
For watering, there is a specific instruction for use. Zircon fertilizer is added to the water with the calculation of one ampoule per ten liters of liquid. Roses can be watered so that the solution flows down the stems and falls on the soil. It is important that there is no rain on the day of treatment (and preferably within three days after it). Then the effect will be one hundred percent. Depending on the desired result, the procedure can be repeated several times with an interval of four to five days.
Compatibility with other drugs
Zircon can and should even be used with various top dressings, vitamins. The drug is combined with insecticides that protect garden and ornamental crops from pests. It does not matter what their origin is - biological or synthetic.
Zircon is compatible with fungicides that prevent fungal compounds from attacking plants. They can also be of biological or synthetic origin.
However, it is not recommended to use a biostimulant in combination with fertilizers that have an alkaline reaction. It is also impossible to combine Zircon with Bordeaux and Burgundy fluids.
Before carrying out complex treatment, the preparations should be checked for compatibility. To do this, connect both components together and look at the reaction. When a precipitate is formed in the mixture, the agents should be used separately from each other.
Security questions
Since the drug is based on plant components 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. Foods that have been grown using Zircon can be used in diet foods. It is permissible to give them to children.
However, the elementary rules of protection when working with this drug should be adhered to. These include the use of work clothing, a ban on smoking and eating food during work. After the procedure, you must remove your clothes and wash.
When watering plants, you should first moisten the soil well. Then there will be no risk in a burn of the root system.
Zircon fertilizer is widely used for indoor plants. The network describes a lot of reviews on this topic.
Plant Rescue Examples
There are many situations where indoor flowers are very stressed. 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 was constantly digging the ground, after which the flowers had to be replanted. From this they dumped foliage, dried up. After processing the leaves and soil with a solution, the situation changed for the better. Ficus, anthurium and many other flowers were saved. A new foliage appeared on them. Helped in this "Zircon".
Fertilizer for plants (biostimulant) perfectly helps plants recover after transplantation. Many gardeners note its positive impact even on exotic crops. As soon as the flower begins to dry, blacken, turn yellow, it is enough to treat it with the drug, and it will be resuscitated. Because of this, many flower growers always keep a couple of ampoules at home.
Fertilizer "Zircon", reviews of which are only positive, can save even a dying flower. In one example, almost the entire dracaena root system has decayed. The plant died before our eyes. After treatment with the drug, he began to grow new roots.
It is also used by lovers of violets. During spring-autumn transplants, their roots are damaged. The drug corrects the situation. However, the owners of violets note that with an overdose of their green spaces grow excessively large. This is not always beautiful, since inflorescences are not visible behind huge leaves. This only confirms the fact that a measure is needed in everything.