In gardening stores it is easy to find a suitable drug to combat infection on cucumbers, but there are gardeners who prefer treatment using traditional methods. Everyone knows about the benefits of treatments using boric acid and iodine, but not everyone knows how to treat cucumbers with Trichopolum. Those who lead a healthy lifestyle and don’t go to doctors may not know what it is.
Briefly about Trichopolis
Trichopolum is an inexpensive drug sold in pharmacies. You do not need a prescription to purchase it. The medicine is produced in the form of white, uncoated tablets. The active ingredient is metronidazole, one tablet contains 250 mg.
Metronidazole has an antibacterial effect. It is prescribed to people for giardiasis, any form of trichomoniasis, and diseases caused by anaerobic bacteria. Gardeners use metronidazole to treat bacterial and fungal infections of cucumbers.
Treatment of cucumbers with Trichopolum
The logic of gardeners treating cucumber plantings with Trichopolum is clear. The tablets treat fungal and bacterial diseases of humans, and they will also cure plants.
Diseases
Gardeners note that not all cucumber diseases are treated with Trichopolum. There are many positive reviews about spraying cucumbers with Trichopolum against cladosporiosis. Otherwise, this fungal disease is called brown or olive spot.
The fungus affects the entire above-ground part of the cucumber bush, and the harvest also suffers. With cladosporiosis, the leaves and stems become covered with a large number of brown spots; on the fruits, the spots transform into sores; they are unsuitable for consumption and preparation.
There are successful results in the fight against powdery mildew. The bushes are treated with Trichopolum after white spots appear on the stems and surface of the leaves. Several treatments save cucumbers from fungus. About treatment of fusarium on cucumbers Reviews are mixed. Most gardeners note that with fusarium, spraying cucumbers with Trichopolum did not bring positive results.
Recommendations for use
Treatment of cucumbers against 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 treating your cucumbers with tablets, you need to think about comparing the risks of using the medicine and fungicides (Strobi, Previkur, Kuproxat, Quadris). If the fear of chemistry has overcome you, then buy Trichopolum or Metronidazole tablets and treat the diseased bushes. When preparing a solution, the dosage is important - the number of tablets for a certain volume of water. Trichopolum is used for cucumbers in the form of spraying on the leaf and applying the solution under the root when watering. The dose of the drug is different in each case:
- The watering solution is prepared at the rate of 1 liter: 1 tablet, if the watering can is 10 liters - add 10 tablets, 5 liters - 5 tablets;
- For spraying, prepare a working fluid of higher concentration, dissolve 2 tablets in a liter of water, if the sprayer has a volume of 10 liters, add 20 tablets of Trichopolum.
The required number of tablets is first dissolved in a small volume of water and only then poured into a working container (bucket, watering can, sprayer). When the first symptoms of a fungal disease appear, there is no need to postpone the use of Trichopolum; the chances of curing cucumbers are higher with early treatments.
Trichopolum is not a chemical, which many are afraid of, but a potent medicine, the use of which during fruiting of cucumbers is undesirable. All treatments 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 greenery
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 spreads to healthy plants. Cucumbers need urgent processing. Take 1 bottle of brilliant green, 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 go away, treat the bushes with a solution of Trichopolum with brilliant green once a week. Spray healthy cucumbers for preventive purposes. In this case, the solution is prepared with a lower content of drugs:
- 10 liters of water;
- ½ bottle of brilliant green;
- 5 tablets.
Prevention of fungal diseases begins by treating cucumbers with Metronidazole after the appearance of 4–5 true leaves, and ends 3 weeks before harvest. The rain following the spraying washes away the medicine, so the treatment is repeated. It is better to process cucumbers in dry weather in the evening after 17-00 or in the morning before 11-00.
Reviews
Antonina: “I don’t support gardeners who spray cucumbers with Trichopolum. It is impossible to guess how eating cucumbers treated with a strong antibiotic will affect human health. For me, ash is the most reliable remedy for all diseases.”
Tatyana: “I treated the cucumbers with Metronidazole against bacteriosis. There was an effect. One bush was sick, so I prepared a little solution, dissolving 2 tablets in 1 liter of water. I treated the diseased bush and 2 neighboring plants. This is necessary so that the infection does not spread to them. The bush survived, bore fruit, and the disease did not spread throughout the greenhouse.”
Ekaterina: “Last summer I was tired fight powdery mildew on cucumbers. In winter, I read reviews about treating cucumbers with Metronidazole. In the spring I decided to test the effect of the medicine in my garden beds. When sowing cucumbers, I added 1 tablet of medicine to each hole. The bushes were sprayed with water with Trichopolum throughout June. The cucumbers didn’t get sick all summer.”
Conclusion
Any preventive measures taken on time guarantee an environmentally friendly harvest of cucumbers. What to use: fungicides, tablets or folk remedies - the owner of the cucumber bed decides.
