Every day, people come across products in which yeast is present. These are bread and buns, kvass and alcoholic drinks, medicines and dietary supplements. The use of yeast in the food industry has become the norm, but feeding seedlings with yeast is a new way of using them.
The biological properties of yeast
Yeast is a unicellular fungal microorganism that has the ability to vegetatively propagate. In closed containers, where there is no access to oxygen, they multiply very intensively. To reproduce in an oxygen environment, they need glucose.
The chemical composition of yeast contains elements such as phosphoric acid, potassium, nitrogen, carbohydrates and amino acids. They are also rich in lipid and protein composition. At the same time, yeast can change its structure depending on the effect on them. Under the influence of low or high temperature, their composition is significantly modified.
As for vitamin saturation, they are represented by group B - vitamins that affect the metabolic processes in the human body and, as it turned out, not only in it. Today, feeding seedlings with yeast, reviews of gardeners confirm this fact, has become widespread practice. This is because a clearly positive effect of the described unicellular organisms on the plant root system has been revealed.
The effect of yeast on seedlings
It was experimentally verified that plants whose seedlings were fed in this way grew faster, became stronger and had better fruiting. Directly feeding seedlings with yeast affects:
- to increase the endurance of the plant, even if it grew in adverse conditions and in low light;
- the rapid growth of the vegetative mass of seedlings;
- on enhanced proliferation of the root system;
- to increase the percentage of rooting when planting fruit bushes with cuttings;
- to increase the immunity of the plant and saturate the fruit with the necessary amount of vitamins and minerals;
- to stimulate the growth of seedlings.
All these changes occur due to a qualitative restructuring of the soil when irrigated with diluted yeast. Unicellular fungi, which are the basis of yeast, enter a favorable warm environment, which causes their mass reproduction. At the same time, they process organics around the plant, intensively releasing nitrogen and potassium into the soil. For this to happen, you should know how to properly make yeast nutrition.
Yeast top dressing
For many gardeners, feeding seedlings with yeast has become natural. The proportions of breeding depend solely on their composition.
To obtain a solution, you can use both dry granulated and fresh yeast. Depending on the number of seedlings and the size of the garden, you can make the solution clean or with the addition of organic matter, for example, grass, tops or chicken droppings.
If hops grow nearby, then its leaves and stems will be an ideal option for “starter culture”, since they cause abundant fermentation of microorganisms with a large release of nitrogen.
Yeast Recipes
Feeding seedlings with yeast begins with the preparation of the solution. There are several methods for its production:
- 200 gr. Bake yeast diluted in 1 liter of warm water and let it brew for several hours. Before watering, dilute the resulting solution in 10 l of water.
- Dilute the 100-gram briquette of the "live" product in 10 liters of warm water and insist for a day. Experienced gardeners say that feeding pepper seedlings with yeast works better if “live” fungal microorganisms are used for the solution.
- 10 gr. dilute granulated yeast in 10 l of warm water with the addition of 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar. Insist for 2-3 hours, then dilute at the rate of 1: 5.
- To feed a large area in a 70-liter barrel, put a bucket of green grass, 0.5 kg of crackers or stale bread, 500 g. yeast and pour warm water. Insist for two days, then use to water the garden.
- Mix in a bowl 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dry yeast, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar, 2 gr. ascorbic acid and pour all 5 liters of warm water. Insist a day, then dilute in a proportion of 1 liter of solution to 10 liters of water and water the root system of plants.
How to breed yeast for feeding seedlings depends solely on the preferences of gardeners, the number of young plants and the size of the site.
In addition to yeast for feeding seedlings, you can use the infusion of 1 cup of milled sprouted wheat with 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour and sugar, which are poured with water and boiled over low heat for 15-20 minutes. After this, the mixture is left for 1-2 days for fermentation, and then it is diluted in 10 liters of water and watered seedlings.
Topping tomato seedlings
Traditionally, tomatoes are planted with seeds in peat tablets or small cups with the ground, and when sprouts appear, they dive in a larger container. Sometimes you have to transplant seedlings 2-3 times, removing the lower leaves as they grow, before it is dived into the open ground. After tomato seedlings are transplanted into the soil, it needs watering and enhanced fertilizing.
Watering the tender sprouts is necessary only with warm, settled water. Fertilizing tomato seedlings after diving with yeast is carried out a few days later by irrigation under the root. If chicken manure is used in addition to yeast in the solution, then the basal circle should be watered so as not to damage the root system itself. It is important to remember that the yeast solution cannot be used in its pure form, but should be diluted in a ratio of 1:10 with water.
As a result of such feeding, the tomatoes will quickly grow, their stem will become strong, and the leaves will become fleshy.
This happens because the yeast microorganisms, getting into warm soil, begin to multiply intensively. In this case, the soil is saturated with oxygen, which has a beneficial effect on the growth and development of the root system.
A second top dressing with yeast can be carried out during the flowering of a tomato. This will accelerate the appearance of the ovary and ripening of the fruit.
Pepper dressing
Pepper seedlings are very tender and moody. She, like no other, is most in need of watering and feeding.
Although yeast is the best stimulant for the rapid growth of plants, it should be remembered that when they enter the soil, they begin to multiply intensively and absorb calcium from it. To avoid land depletion, immediately after top dressing of pepper seedlings was carried out with yeast, you need to fertilize the soil with wood ash or mineral fertilizers.
Thanks to the yeast, the pepper tolerates the pick better and adapts in the open ground. Such dressing should be carried out a few days after transplantation. This will give strength to the seedlings, strengthen the development of its root system and stem.
It is important to remember that yeast loves heat, so feeding seedlings with yeast should be carried out only on sunny days.
Em technology
Natural organic fertilizers are becoming increasingly popular among gardeners. Modern EM technologies can not only be purchased from those who produce them, but also created independently.
Many summer residents create compost heaps, not knowing that a solution of yeast will help to accelerate their maturation. Prepared from 10 liters of warm water, 100 g. yeast, 300 gr. sugar or old jam, it is infused for a day, then diluted in a ratio of 1: 5 with water. A compost heap is sprayed with this solution, and yeast microorganisms will accelerate its maturation several times.