Fungicide Koside: instructions for use and mechanism of action, dosage

To protect your garden and reap a good harvest, each gardener uses different infection control methods. If simple methods do not solve the problem, they use a broad-spectrum fungicide Koside, instructions for its use will provide information on the features of using the product to prevent a number of pathologies.

Purpose, composition and release form of the fungicide Kosayd 2000

The drug belongs to one of the new contact means, the basis of which is copper. It is designed to protect vegetable and horticultural crops from infection, and is able to prevent fungal and bacterial plant diseases. The protection effect is observed for 2 weeks.

The solution is used for processing potatoes, tomatoes, onions, peaches, grapes, strawberries and other crops. Plants are treated with the product as a prevention of various pathologies.

The product is produced in the form of granules, soluble in water, having a green-blue color. You can buy pesticides in any packaging. For private use, gardeners are offered packages from 10 to 100 gr. substances. Large agricultural producers buy volumes from 1.5 to 10 kg.

Mechanism of drug action

The main component of the pesticide is copper hydroxide. In a dry product, the concentration is 54% - per 1 kg of granules 540 gr. copper.

After the drug enters the culture with divalent copper ions, the procedure for neutralizing spores and bacteria immediately begins. When the poisonous concentration reaches the center of the cell, the infection process stops.

As a result of preventive measures of the diverse impact of the pesticide on the pathogen, a good effect appears. The threat of emergence of resistance is minimal.

Pros

The advantages of a fungicide include the following:

easy to apply due to low dosage;
easy and fast solubility in water;
low foaming;
improved atomization ability, no clogged nozzles;
better washout resistance;
good combination with other means;
fungicide is non-toxic to beneficial insects.

Cons

Although Koside has many positives, it is still a pesticide and should be handled with standard safety precautions.

Of the minuses of the drug, the following are distinguished:

can only be used as a prophylaxis, not used for plant treatment;
crop protection is carried out only on the surface, because it does not penetrate the plant tissue;
packaging material and storage are inconvenient;
at temperatures over +26 degrees, the use is prohibited, burns may appear on the leaves.

Method of preparation of working solution

Initially, you need to prepare the masterbatch. In a separate container, which is filled to the middle with clean water, the required volume of the drug is diluted. The composition is well mixed until a homogeneous structure is obtained.

Then the liquid must be poured into the sprayer tank, which is filled 2/3 with water. The agitator is turned on, and, slowly mixing the contents of the tank, it is completely filled with liquid.

Entering the site to perform various types of work is possible only 3 days after the treatment of plants.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are sprayed with a preparation to prevent alternaria, macrosporiosis, septoria, late blight.

The mixture for the protection of tomatoes is prepared at the rate of 50 gr. granules per 10 liters of water. Spraying the area with tomatoes is carried out no more than 4 times with a frequency of 7-14 days. 300 liters of composition are required per 1 ha.

Collecting and eating a vegetable is possible 2 weeks after treatment with Coside.

Potatoes

The pesticide is used to prevent late blight and early blight on potatoes. The working solution is prepared by dissolving 50 gr. funds in 10 liters of water.

Spraying the vegetable is carried out up to 4 times with a frequency of 8-12 days. The last spraying is carried out 15 days before the potato harvest.

Onion

When it's raining and cold outside, onions can get downy mildew. The disease is prevented by spraying: dissolve 50 gr. funds in 10 liters of water. The solution is sprayed 4 times, the interval is 2 weeks. The preventive process is carried out 14 days before the vegetable is harvested.

Grapes

Dangerous disease for the vineyard is mildew. If timely preventive maintenance by Coside 2000 is carried out, then the vine will be saved from downy mildew.

Processing solution is obtained by kneading 30 gr. funds in 10 liters of water. The vineyard is sprayed 4 times, every 12 days. Grapes can be eaten a month after the last treatment.

Peach

During the spring dissolution of flower buds, the tree may get curly. You need to process 2 times:

Before the flowers appear.
During the green cone period.

The first treatment is carried out with a mixture of 60 gr. substances, the second - from 25 gr. Consumption per 1 ha - up to 1000 liters of mortar.

Peaches can be harvested one month after preventive treatment.

Apple tree

Apple tree is sprayed with coside against scab and moniliosis up to 4 times:

The first treatment is done when the buds swell.
Bud separation process.
After 2 weeks - 3rd and 4th treatments.

Dilute the solution like this: 25-30 gr. funds for 10 l.

It is forbidden to spray the apple tree during the flowering period.

Strawberry

The pesticide is used to combat brown spot on strawberries. Plantings are sprayed with a solution: 20 gr. the products are mixed in 10 liters of water. The number of sprayings does not exceed 3 times. The initial spraying is carried out before strawberry flowering, then after 2 weeks.

Instructions for using the product

Plants are processed at the time of vegetation. Primary spraying takes place as a preventive measure, all the rest - if signs of illness appear.

You can carry out 3-4 treatments per season. Spraying is repeated no earlier than after 7-12 days.

Precautions

Carrying out prevention, you need to follow the rules:

Use gloves, mask, goggles.
If the mixture gets on the skin, mucous membranes, thoroughly rinse the areas, change clothes.
Take an activated charcoal tablet if Kosid has entered the digestive system.

Drug toxicity

For humans, the drug does not pose a danger (3rd class of toxicity), it also has moderate toxicity to bees and organisms living in water.

Compatibility

The fungicide is compatible with pesticides other than organophosphate insecticides, aluminum phosethyl based, Tyra, and acidic tank mix.

Conditions and terms of storage of fungicide

Koseid can be stored in a separate room where there is no food nearby.

Existing analogues

From similar preparations, which are made on the basis of copper sulphate, there are:

Cupid.
Meteor.
Mercury.