How to treat seeds before sowing: a cheap and effective remedy
Pre-sowing preparation of seed stock involves mandatory treatment of vegetable grains from all kinds of diseases.
Since ancient times and to this day, gardeners have used a pale pink solution of potassium permanganate for this purpose. The concept is so vague that it is difficult to imagine.
But at the same time, this remedy has helped farmers more than once, and no one is going to give it up, especially since there seems to be no alternative.
Curious summer residents, inclined to experiment during the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic, have discovered one interesting remedy.
It costs pennies, is available in any pharmacy, and in the past, the media called it “Trump’s medicine” – it’s chlorhexidine.
It was in the United States and during the presidency of this man that the medicine gained enormous popularity among those wishing to be healed by improvised means.
But let's leave the pandemic alone and return to the seeds.
Gardeners claim that there is nothing better than this antiseptic as a disinfectant for pre-sowing seed treatment.
Chlorhexidine has a milder effect, is no less effective than potassium permanganate, but an overdose during the preparation of the composition is excluded.
The antiseptic is sold in any pharmacy, costs pennies, does not burn the seeds, and for a full course it is enough to soak the seeds for 30 minutes.
During this time, chlorhexidine will destroy all bacteria and fungi. After treatment, the seeds are not washed, but laid out on a damp sterile napkin and germinated, or immediately used for sowing in the soil.
