Soaking seeds before planting in aloe juice

Aloe juice is a biologically active stimulant that gardeners used long before the spread of “factory” growth regulators. The juice of the plant not only makes the seeds germinate faster and more actively, but also partially disinfects them.

And yet, before soaking the seeds in such a biological stimulant, they are warmed up (for example, on a heating radiator) or pickled in a 1-2% solution of potassium permanganate, thereby freeing it from possible infection. .

It is important to prepare aloe leaves correctly. The plant (it must be at least three years old) from which the leaves are going to be cut is stopped watering two weeks before (the plant will undergo this operation painlessly), then the lower healthy leaves are cut off, wrapped in dark paper and placed in the refrigerator.

After a week, juice is squeezed out of the leaves, diluted with water in a 1:1 ratio and the seeds are soaked in the solution for a day. The juice should completely cover them.

Seeds with low germination and expired are soaked in pure aloe to increase their viability. You don't even have to squeeze the juice for this. The sheet is simply cut lengthwise. Seeds are laid out on one half and covered with the other half of the leaf. The swollen seeds are sown without washing. The soaking procedure is carried out at room temperature.

It is believed that aloe juice does not have a beneficial effect on all crops. It is not suitable for soaking cucumbers, zucchini, squash, pumpkin, onions, celery, peppers.

Most often, seed material is kept in aloe before sowing seedlings. tomato, and eggplant, cabbage, radish, daikon, radish. Immediately after soaking, the seeds are sown.

You should not soak seeds treated by manufacturers in aloe (and other stimulants).

There is information on the bags that such processing was carried out.