All about watering plants with cold water
All life on Earth needs water. We often hear that drinking plenty of water is good for your health. However, almost all experts claim that drinking cold liquids can negatively affect health. Few people seriously think about whether the same can be said about plants. About what kind of water (cold or warm) you need to water various crops, as well as how this affects them, read this article.
What can you water?
The more thermophilic the plant is, the more it needs watering with warm water. Most of these plants are vegetables. This includes cucumbers, several types of peppers, eggplants, and other crops. Some berries are also thermophilic, in particular watermelons.
Watering with cold moisture (from a well or from a well) tolerates winter crops well. These include beets, carrots, and garlic. Another category of plants that can be watered with cold water are crops that have a deep root system.
Moisture, passing through the layer of earth, has time to heat up and no longer does much harm. A prominent representative is potatoes.
Raspberries and strawberries tolerate cold moisture well. Cold water can also be poured over strawberries. Plants that tolerate cold moisture well include pumpkin seeds, other root crops, and various kinds of greens. The latter include watercress, lettuce, parsley, sorrel, dzhusay and others. This list also includes fruit trees (plum, pear, apple, and so on). If watering occurs from a hose, then it must be done by first digging a groove around the tree.
It is also worth remembering that it is better to water with cold, but settled water. The salts contained in it settle to the bottom, and the chlorine evaporates. In some cases, cold watering is used as a pest control method.
What plants cannot be watered?
Currants do not tolerate cold watering. After this process, the plant can die almost immediately. Cucumbers love frequent watering, every 3 or 4 days with warm (heated) and settled water. Cold water can burn cucumbers (especially during the heat).
Roses require a special approach - they also cannot be watered with cold moisture, from which they die. At the same time, the temperature should not exceed 40 degrees Celsius.
With regular cold watering, onion feathers begin to turn yellow. As a result, the plant will die.
It is categorically unacceptable to use cold water for watering indoor plants or planting in a greenhouse. The reason is trivial - often the majority of representatives of these two categories are tropical plants, accustomed only to warmth in all aspects, including in terms of water.
Some crops can not always be watered with cold water - you need to alternate watering with settled and cold moisture. These are tomatoes, some types of peppers. Especially negatively, cold watering can affect the seedlings of these plants.
What happens if you make a mistake?
Water for irrigation should be warm because nutrients can only dissolve in a liquid of a certain temperature. Thus, when irrigated with cold water, plants no longer receive nutrients. This becomes noticeable rather quickly - immediately after watering, the plants may look drooping and lethargic.
With a regular repetition of this procedure, the plant will drop withered buds and flowers, later it will begin to shed healthy buds with flowers. Over time, the leaves will turn yellow.
As a result, after the leaves fall off, the process of rotting of the root system will begin.
An imbalance in the temperatures of irrigation water and soil can lead to disruption of the normal life of organisms living on the soil surface. As a result, they stop "working" in the previous mode and process less plant residues necessary for plants.
In conclusion, it is worth mentioning the fact that in no case should you water the plants with ice water. After watering with such water, even those plants that tolerate cold watering well can not only slow down their growth, but also get sick.
Despite the fact that sometimes this can happen unnoticed, the plants tolerate such watering very poorly. Often, the resistance to various kinds of diseases and pests in plants decreases. The acceleration of the development of fungal and viral diseases begins.
but even after the plant has suffered from destructive cold watering, it can be restored. To save the injured plant, it is required to transfer it, if possible, to a sunny place and in the future to be more careful about the watering process. It must also be remembered that watering with cold water in conditions where there is no water (settled, warmed up or precipitation) is still preferable than no water at all.
And in this case, the least harm from such watering will be in the morning, with the least temperature contrast.
But what about the spring water (0 degrees) from melting snow? Why does not the plant and its roots rot and disappear?
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