All About Cucumber Yeast Feeding

The purpose of the yeast feeding for cucumbers is accelerated growth and a set of green mass, the active formation of flowers, and then fruits. This effect is good in farms where the cultivation of vegetables is put on stream in order to get more profit. But it is also used by amateur summer residents.

The advantages of yeast feeding are as follows.

1. Yeast dressing for cucumbers makes it possible to release from fertilizers and compounds that have got into the soil due to the introduction of the first nitrogen and phosphorus in large quantities. Phosphorus and nitrogen are also easily released (phosphorus and nitrogen oxide) in large quantities using yeast microorganisms.
2. From the foregoing, it follows that yeast feeding for cucumbers in most cases is a bioactive additive that accelerates the necessary reactions than the nutritional organic matter itself. Fertilizers are indispensable here.
3. In addition to saturating the soil with phosphorus and nitrogen, the processes of converting some organic substances into others, the assimilation of minerals dissolved in water, are accelerated. Organics and minerals are processed into the simplest compounds that are vital not only for cucumbers, but in general for any vegetation.
4. This dressing is easy to prepare yourself. It is enough just to buy yeast - it has a low cost. Dry or fresh (raw) yeast does not require any special manipulations, forcing them to work efficiently to fulfill your task.
5. The high environmental friendliness of top dressing allows you to abandon any other synthetic additives, some of which are poison not only for weeds growing near cucumber beds, but also for humans.
6. Yeast top dressing, spurring the formation of flowers and fruits, can increase the yield from each square meter of cucumber thickets.
7. The yeast solution allows you to bring more bees and other insects to the inflorescences, without which it would be difficult to pollinate the flowers. Of course, cross-pollination by the wind is also possible, but when complete calm is observed during the flowering period, cross-pollination by insects is indispensable here. The yeast smell, with an acidic accent, attracts insects from afar.
8. The roots of plants poured with a yeast solution grow extremely quickly. The vitality of the seedlings is strengthened.
9. Cucumbers (and other garden crops), watered with yeast, will be tastier - thanks to the creation of all conditions for obtaining a harvest of excellent quality.
10. Being closely related to other microorganisms (molds, parasitic fungus), yeast significantly inhibits their development, displacing them from the general habitat (planting crops).

There are also disadvantages to yeast feeding.

1. Potassium reserves in the soil are depleted - it passes into other compounds that are difficult for plants to assimilate. Although potassium is extremely reluctant to be absorbed by plants in its pure form, oxide and salts based on it are used to create the desired effect. Potassium oxide and phosphate are added additionally.
2. Soil acidification will require adding wood ash.
3. Yeast cannot be used more than three times in a cucumber season. The growing season, accompanied by excessive yeast supplementation, can have the opposite effect.
4. Yeast can be used only in warm weather - the optimal temperature is from 25 to 35 degrees, which is almost impossible to reach in April in Russia, excluding cloudless, hot days. At night, the activity of the yeast - due to a significant drop in temperature - comes to naught.
5. The solution is prepared 1.5 hours before use. Yeast cannot lie for more than half a day in dissolved form - without receiving nutrients, microorganisms begin to process each other, as a result, the solution abruptly loses its reactivity. After overnight storage - even in the refrigerator - the yeast solution is useless.
6. Expired yeast cannot be used - most likely, it will be dead, and there will be no sense. They will only serve as a small amount of organic matter, which will simply be absorbed into the soil.
7. The absence of the original organic matter in the soil, which they could process, makes it impossible to use yeast as a biome catalyst that accelerates beneficial processes.

The preparation of the solution forces the concentrated composition to be diluted. You can't just pour out a jar of yeast granules diluted in water - excess yeast is harmful to plants. It is impossible to use a yeast solution without preliminary watering - like any fertilizer, additive, the solution is poured onto wet soil so that it seeps from everywhere and reaches all the roots of the cucumber thickets.

Fresh yeast is prepared as follows - a kilogram of raw yeast is soaked in 5 liters (half a bucket) of pure water. Insist them warm for about 6 hours. Before use, the solution is diluted with water 10 times more - as a result, a kilogram of yeast goes into 50 liters (half a centner) of water. A weakly concentrated solution obtained in this way is poured under each bush in an amount of 1 liter - after preliminary watering of the beds. For seedlings, no more than 200 ml is used - for each square meter in the area sown with cucumber seedlings.

You can make a solution with dry yeast as follows. Take two tablespoons of dry yeast, 10 liters of warm water and the same amount (like yeast granules) of sugar. Dissolve yeast in warm water, add sugar, mix thoroughly. After 2 hours - when in a warm place (no higher than 36 degrees) - the yeast, having eaten sugar, like an avalanche, multiplies rapidly. The resulting solution is diluted in 50 liters of warm water. Water your plantings at the root - as in the previous case.

There are also several recipes that allow you to get the required amount of "raw material" - for a similar effect - for feeding cucumbers. Do the following - optional.

Use 10-12 g of dry yeast, 2 g of ascorbic acid (you can use "Revit") and 5 liters of warm water. Crush the tablets into powder, mix with dry yeast, fill with warm water. Insist warm for a week. When watering, dilute a glass of the resulting solution in a bucket of water. Water each cucumber plant at the root - only 0.5 liters is enough.

Prepare a solution of yeast with sugar as follows. Mix 0.5 kg of yeast granules with a glass of sugar, dissolve the mixture in a bucket of water. Insist warm throughout the day. Dissolve 2 liters of this solution in a bucket of water. Water, spending up to half a liter per bush.

Instead of sugar, you can also use bread. A wheat-rye - or pure rye - loaf or loaf is better suited. Crackers will not work - they will not mix the solution right away, as they take up to several minutes to swell and become soft.

Mix the following ingredients: a loaf of crushed bread, a bucket of water. You need to insist in warmth for - on average - six days. Strain off the liquid component, bring the resulting volume to 10 liters (full bucket) and water the cucumber shoots using the same dosage as in the previous case. Spraying, sprinkling on plants is allowed - the surplus will flow into the ground by itself.

Yeast top dressing with ash allows you to saturate the soil with minerals - mainly potassium, nitrogen and phosphorus. Minerals are actively processed by yeast into a modified composition, fully suitable for assimilation by plants in an accelerated rhythm. At the same time, tuberous microbes multiply, retaining a significant amount of nitrogen in the soil. It is recommended to apply this composition during the flowering period.

100 g of raw yeast is mixed with the same amount (by weight) of ash, the same amount of sugar is added, and diluted in a 3-liter jar of water. Please note - all embers from the ash must be removed. Stir and leave in a warm place for three days. Further, the composition is diluted in 50 liters of water. Water each plant under the root - 1 liter for each bush. During the flowering period, no solutions should be sprayed - they will wash off the pollen from the flowers, and there will be no harvest.

100 g of compressed yeast are mixed with milk in an amount of 1 liter. Milk does not have to be boiled - you can also use steam. Insist for 2 hours, dilute the solution with water in a ratio of 1: 10, water each bush under the root, using 1 liter for each plant. The prepared solution has a beneficial effect on fruit setting, protects cucumber vegetation from diseases. The coating of fat left on the plants during spraying prevents microbes from settling on them.

For open and greenhouse conditions, the use of yeast feeding is somewhat different. This is due to the fact that open ground dries faster, can be located in open sunlight. In the heat of summer, due to an increase in soil temperature of more than 40 degrees Celsius, premature extinction of yeast microorganisms occurs. Cooking recipes generally do not change.

Fertilizing of cucumber seedlings is carried out immediately after watering. Due to high humidity, an additional obstacle to the penetration of direct sunlight, the second abundant watering of the soil may not be useful, which cannot be said about the sun-drenched open places in the summer cottage. Greenhouse thickets of cucumbers are often fed using rye bread instead of yeast. The result obtained is noticeable after three days from the date of feeding. An acidic environment has already been formed in rye bread, which is needed in this case.

When breeding cucumber shoots in the open field, a herbal infusion with yeast is often used. A 150-liter barrel is filled with a third of its volume with weeds (for example, nettles), a pound of yeast, a loaf of bread are added, and then filled with water to the 60% mark. After three days, the resulting sourdough is diluted in a ratio of 1: 10 - and used for feeding. The general rule is that a small amount of sugar is used with dry yeast: it is necessary for them to "wake up" to get down to business (after feeding and multiplying).

On the windowsill, on the balcony, seedlings are watered drip. The amount of top dressing at home is minimized - just a few drops of the solution every 15 days, while the usual watering is carried out regularly, every day - and also by the drip method. The fact is that seedlings grow mainly in small containers - the capacity is no larger than that used, for example, for passing urine for analysis.

As a nutritious basis, cucumber seedlings are grown in peat or in a mixture of peat with black soil (1: 1). If only peat is used, then yeast feeding may not be necessary - focus on the specific situation. If the seedlings are pale (there is not enough phosphorus and potassium), then it makes sense to add a yeast solution in small quantities - it is prepared according to one of the above recipes.

• Do not add too much yeast - too often, for example, a couple of times a week. By doing this, by accelerating the growth of the green mass, you will upset the balance between it and the amount of the crop. Miracles do not happen: having spent nutrients on the "tops", cucumber plants will not be able to form a large number of flowers from the ovaries. The expected increase in yield will not happen.
• Do not use cold, ice-cold water: yeast microorganisms will not "wake up" until they get into the heat.
• Do not spray yeast on the plant. The only exception is the recipe, which mentions milk. However, in this case, the plants should be treated with a yeast solution by spraying, not spraying - foliar feeding is performed according to this principle.
• Do not water the plants with yeast solution in the heat - the water will evaporate quickly enough, the soil will overheat, and the yeast microorganisms will die.
• Do not water the plant "dry" with the composition - it will not reach all the roots, and the plants will receive much less of it.
• Do not try to splash the prepared solution directly onto the beds - normally it should ferment to a foamy state. For this, a larger container is used than is required: if the foam leaves, then the benefits of the solution will be less.
• Do not use boiling water - the yeast will die from overheating. If the water is hot, cool it until the hand no longer feels the heat from the container.
• Do not mix yeast solutions with iodine and other components that are not characteristic of their normal operation - potassium permanganate, boric acid. Remember, these three ingredients are protective, not nourishing. It is worth protecting from pests separately - somewhere in the middle between feeding sessions. For example, lactic acid secreted by yeast and ethanol react with iodine and boric acid to form compounds with no benefit.