Spraying cucumbers with Trichopolum: how to process, use and dosage

In gardening stores it is easy to find a suitable drug to fight infection on cucumbers, but there are gardeners who prefer folk remedies. Everyone knows about the benefits of treatments using boric acid, iodine, but not everyone knows how to treat cucumbers with Trichopolum. Those who lead a he althy lifestyle, do not go to doctors, may not know what it is.

Trichopolum in brief

Trichopol is an inexpensive drug sold in pharmacies. You don't need a prescription to buy it. Release the medicine in the form of white tablets without a shell. The active substance is metronidazole, it contains 250 mg per tablet.

Metronidazole has an antibacterial effect. It is prescribed to people for giardiasis, any form of trichomoniasis, diseases caused by anaerobic bacteria. Gardeners use metronidazole to treat bacterial and fungal infections in cucumbers.

Treatment of cucumbers with Trichopolum

The logic of gardeners processing cucumber plantings with Trichopolum is understandable. Pills treat fungal and bacterial human diseases, and plants will also cure.

Diseases

Gardeners note that not all diseases of cucumbers are treated with Trichopolum. There are many positive reviews about spraying cucumbers with Trichopolum from cladosporiosis. Otherwise, this fungal disease is called brown or olive spot.

The fungus infects the entire aerial part of the cucumber bush, and the crop suffers. Leaves and stems with cladosporiosis are covered with a large number of brown spots, on the fruits the spots transform into sores, they are unsuitable for eating and preparing blanks.

There are successful results in the fight against powdery mildew. Bushes are treated with Trichopolum after the appearance of white spots on the stems and surface of the leaves. Several treatments save cucumbers from fungus. Regarding the treatment of fusarium on cucumbers, the reviews are ambiguous. Most gardeners note that with Fusarium, spraying cucumbers with Trichopolum did not bring positive results.

Recommendations for use

Treatment of cucumbers from brown spot and powdery mildew with Trichopolum gives a 100% positive result, but only with weekly treatments of cucumber bushes. Stop spraying cucumbers with Trichopolum only when they are convinced that the fungus is completely destroyed both in the soil and on the plants.

Before you treat your cucumbers with pills, you need to think, compare the risks of using the medicine and fungicides (Strobi, Previkur, Kuproksat, Quadris).If the fear of chemistry has overcome, then buy Trichopolum or Metronidazole tablets and treat diseased bushes. When preparing a solution, the dosage is important - the number of tablets per a certain volume of water. Trichopol is used for cucumbers in the form of spraying on the leaf and applying the solution under the root during irrigation. The dose of the drug in each case is different:

watering solution is prepared at the rate of 1 liter: 1 tablet, if the watering can with a volume of 10 liters - add 10 tablets, 5 liters - 5 tablets;
for spraying, prepare a working fluid of a higher concentration, dissolve 2 tablets in a liter of water, if the sprayer is 10 liters, add 20 tablets of Trichopolum.

The required number of tablets is first dissolved in a small amount of water and only then poured into a working container (bucket, watering can sprayer). When the first symptoms of a fungal disease appear, it is not necessary to postpone the use of Trichopolum, the chances of curing cucumbers are higher with early treatments.

Trichopolum is not a chemistry that many are afraid of, but a potent medicine, the use of which during the fruiting of cucumbers is undesirable. All treatment of bushes with Metronidazole should be stopped three weeks before harvest. When using an antibiotic, the same rules apply as when using fungicides.

Recipe with brilliant green

As soon as you see whitish or yellow spots on the leaves of young cucumbers, do not wait until they turn brown and the infection will spread to he althy plants. Cucumbers need urgent processing. We take brilliant green 1 bottle, 10 tablets of Trichopolum or Metronidazole and dissolve everything in 10 liters of water. Water temperature 22-25 °C.

Until the signs of the disease pass, treat the bushes with a solution of Trichopolum with brilliant green once a week. Spray he althy cucumbers for the purpose of prevention. The solution in this case is prepared with a lower content of drugs:

10 liters of water;
½ bottle of brilliant green;
5 tablets.

Start the prevention of fungal diseases by treating cucumbers with Metronidazole after the appearance of 4-5 true leaves, finish 3 weeks before harvest. Rain following spraying washes away the medicine, so the treatment is repeated. Cucumbers are best processed in dry weather in the evening after 17-00 or in the morning before 11-00.

Reviews

Antonina: “I do not support gardeners who spray cucumbers with Trichopolum. It is impossible to guess how eating cucumbers treated with a strong antibiotic will affect human he alth. For me, ash is the most reliable remedy for all diseases.”

Tatiana: “I treated cucumbers with Metronidazole from bacteriosis.The effect was. One bush was sick, so I prepared a little solution, dissolved 2 tablets in 1 liter of water. Processed a diseased bush and 2 neighboring plants. This is necessary so that the infection does not pass to them. The bush survived, fruited, the disease did not spread through the greenhouse.”

Ekaterina: “Last summer I got tired of fighting powdery mildew on cucumbers. In winter, I read reviews about the treatment of cucumbers with Metronidazole. In the spring I decided to test the effect of the medicine on my beds. When sowing cucumbers, I added 1 tablet of medicine to each well. The bushes were sprayed with water with Trichopol throughout June. Cucumbers haven't been sick all summer.”

Conclusion

Any timely preventive measures guarantee an environmentally friendly cucumber harvest. What to apply: fungicides, tablets or folk remedies - the owner of the cucumber garden decides.