Seed potatoes need to be cooked for landing: to touch regarding decay and other defeats, to calibrate. These procedures are carried out by many gardeners. Disputes usually erupt around preliminary prorashchivaniye of potatoes before landing.
Opinion of experts
Agronomists strongly recommend to couch seed potatoes. At this procedure there are a lot of pluses. So the preliminary prorashchivaniye increases productivity to 50% and gives amicable shoots already in few weeks. Thanks to this procedure it is possible to identify tubers with internal decay – similar copies will not sprout. The preliminary prorashchivaniye will also accelerate maturing of harvest at least for week.
Dry prorashchivaniye
A month before landing works get seed potatoes from cellar and place in boxes. It is possible to decompose on floor in one or two tiers. For awakening as it is possible bigger quantity of eyes the first 10 days you hold tubers at temperature of 18-20 wasps. Then, that they have not dried up, lower it till 12-15 wasps.
Control that the sun equally lit each tuber. Otherwise copies which were in shadow will give thin and long sprouts. Also sunlight promotes education corned beef. It is harmful to human body, but is extremely necessary for tuber for opposition to diseases and wreckers.
Damp prorashchivaniye
This way of awakening of sprouts quicker than previous. Pour seed potatoes damp sand or sawdust and sustain 15-20 days on light at temperature of 12-15 wasps. In process of drying-out sprinkle substrate water. The damp way allows to receive ideal material for landing – with short and greasy sprouts.
The accelerated prorashchivaniye
For receiving quality seed potatoes even quicker, it is necessary to dry it. Get tubers from storage for few weeks before expected date of landing. Find it the room with temperature of 18-20 wasps. No matter, light or will be dark it. You keep in it potatoes before formation of rudiments of sprouts, and in such look land in soil.
If you have bought seed material without sprouts and just before landing, let's it lie down only one day at temperature of 12-15 wasps, and in the subsequent three days raise it till 18-20 wasps. It will allow tubers to waken. If to neglect this manipulation, emergence of shoots will be delayed for considerable time. Further it will affect development of potatoes.
Pay attention
Some gardeners before prorashchivaniye of potatoes carry out the procedures promoting prevention of diseases. So, they ret tubers in weak solution of potassium permanganate, and then dry and dust ashes. Before the disembarkation they can be processed from invasion of Colorado beetle and the wireworm. Special medicines among which there is "Taboo", "Prestige", Aktara are for this purpose used.