Activated carbon is a drug that is in any home medicine cabinet, it is used as first aid in case of poisoning. It is an excellent adsorbent that is capable of absorbing moisture, harmful to humans. chemical substances, heavy metals.
The tool is actively working in medicine, besides it is used for cleaning. Industrial, household filters for water and air are made of it. The drug can also be useful in the garden.
Beneficial features
Useful properties of activated carbon for plants:
- works as a prophylactic agent against fungal disease of the black leg;
- prevents the development of putrefactive processes, it can be added to the water in which the cuttings are for rooting;
- pulls out harmful metal compounds from the ground;
- enriches the soil with nutrients;
- makes the soil more neutral;
- absorbs excess moisture;
- disinfects flower cuts.
These qualities can be applied when growing vegetables and fruits.
Anti-mildew activated carbon
If mold has formed on the surface of the soil, you can help with a remedy from a home first aid kit.
To do this, grind several tablets of activated carbon and sprinkle the moldy area. If it does not help, and the mold remains, you need to remove the affected area along with the remnants of the product and repeat the procedure again.
In this case, it is important not to lay out the drug in large pieces, but grind it to a powder state, otherwise the product will not work well.
For disinfection
In the garden and vegetable garden, it is sometimes necessary to cut the roots of plants to propagate or remove the damaged part. It is recommended to disinfect the cut. Activated carbon is best suited for this. It is necessary to crush the tablets, sprinkle the cut well with the resulting powder. This will save you from infection with diseases and rot.
Gardeners, while growing seedlings, are faced with various diseases of vegetables. Young plants have not yet matured during this period, so they easily die. To prevent the loss of green pets, the soil must be disinfected before planting seedlings. Activated carbon can be used for this purpose.
You should take several black tablets, grind them to a powder state, mix with soil. Thus, water stagnation, mold and blackleg disease can be avoided.
Prevention, treatment
Vegetable and flower seedlings are often affected by the black leg. With this disease, the root neck becomes black, the plant seems to break. This could lead to his death. As a preventive measure, you can use activated carbon. To do this, you need to grind black tablets, scatter them over the surface of the earth.
If the plants are sick, all affected should be removed, and the soil should be sprinkled with black powder, if necessary, repeat the procedure.
For bites and cuts
In the country, you can often get injured, suffer from insect bites. If there is nothing at hand in the first-aid kit except activated charcoal, then you can use it. To do this, grind the tablets into powder and apply to the affected area, apply a bandage. Medicine saves from infection, reduces swelling, relieves pain.
Top dressing with activated carbon
Florists use the product to improve the growth of indoor plants. 1-2 tablets should be buried shallowly in a flower pot. This method helps to disinfect the soil, feed it, save it from some diseases.
Activated carbon is not only first aid for people in case of poisoning, it is also effective method cure plants from certain diseases.
What is charcoal? This is wood that has been charred in an airless environment. In finished form, these are black, porous pieces that have retained the structure of the wood.
The density depends on the original wood variety. TO useful properties Due to which charcoal is so often used, it is hygroscopic (the ability to absorb water), the ability to cleanse liquids from various impurities and antiseptic properties.
Such coal is produced in factory conditions and is widely used from the metallurgical industry to the preparation of barbecue in nature. How can it be useful for growing home flowers?
The use of charcoal helps to solve many of the problems encountered in home greenhouses.
Charcoal, crushed to a state of powder, is sprinkled on the roots damaged during transplantation. It also treats the wounds formed during the division of perennials. A powerful antiseptic effect allows you to suppress the reproduction of putrefactive bacteria and to avoid decay of wounds on plants. For example, a cut of cuttings rooted in the ground should be sprinkled with charcoal powder and decay will be prevented or stopped.
It is useful to add it to the soil when planting or transplanting plants that do not like excessive soil moisture. Such plants include succulents, orchids, cacti, ferns, arrowroot, aroid, bromeliads. With excessive watering, part of the moisture will be absorbed by the coal, the roots of the plant will not be affected.
It is better to create an earthen mixture with the addition of this component in advance, 2-3 weeks before the planned planting of the plant. The mixture can contain from 3 to 8% coal. For large flowers or orchids, charcoal is used in relatively large pieces. An earthen mixture for small plants or young flowers must be prepared from smaller fractions, which means that it is better to use charcoal in powder form. The prepared earthen mixture is kept for disinfecting the soil and removing excess moisture under a loose shelter so that there is air access.
Coal is effective drainage. Like a sponge, it absorbs excess water and some mineral salts, and as the soil dries up, it gives back moisture. The advantages of such drainage can be considered a neutral chemical reaction, a porous structure and an insignificant weight of the material. It is recommended to put a layer of drainage no more than 2 cm thick on the bottom of the flower pot.
When cuttings are rooted in water, water blooms often occur, and bacteria proliferate rapidly, causing rotting and an unpleasant odor. The addition of charcoal will keep the water fresh and odorless. Coal can also be added to irrigation water. It softens water a little, adsorbing excess amounts of dissolved hardness salts.
Tubers, rhizomes or bulbs rotted during storage are cleaned from diseased tissues to a healthy place. The resulting wound is treated with crushed charcoal. Putrid infections will be destroyed, the wound will dry out, valuable planting material will be saved.
Where to buy
Charcoal used for growing a home greenhouse is best purchased in specialized stores. There it is sold in small volumes, in waterproof packaging. The opened package must be poured into a container where the coal will be stored without moisture. The safest way is to use a jar with a screw cap, in which it is useful to put a couple of bags of silica gel (these bags are put in a box with shoes). Coal loses most of its valuable properties when it comes into contact with atmospheric air.
You can replace charcoal with activated charcoal, which is sold in pharmacies. Charcoal used for kindling fireplaces or barbecues has similar properties.
Hello Raisa.
Activated carbon is used in various spheres of our life. This is not ordinary coal, but produced using a special technology, when as a result of processing organic raw materials, pores are opened in it. Thanks to this, activated carbon becomes a good adsorbent, perfectly absorbs moisture and absorbs various chemicals. Most often used in medicine, in household and industrial filters for purifying water, air, etc. Also, this tool is often used in gardening.
Activated carbon and seedlings
People who are successfully gardening, plant indoor flowers, often use activated carbon in their business, as evidenced by their reviews. For this, ordinary activated charcoal tablets are suitable, which can be purchased at any pharmacy.
The main benefits of activated carbon are as follows:
- It helps to absorb excess moisture and protects the soil from the appearance of mold on it;
- Activated carbon absorbs harmful substances well, which makes the soil safer and more neutral, and also enriches it with nutrients.
All this has a beneficial effect on the condition of young, not yet matured plants. That is why coal is most often used even at the stage of soil preparation for seedlings. To do this, take several tablets of activated carbon, grind them to a powder state and sprinkle them with soil in seedling pots. This method protects the soil well from the appearance of mold on it.
However, many gardeners complain that the mold appeared precisely after the addition of activated carbon. This is also possible, because it absorbs a lot of excess moisture, and that is why the coal must be ground into a fine powder, and not laid out in large pieces.
If areas of untreated land have already become moldy, it is recommended to sprinkle these places with activated carbon powder, and after a while, carefully collect it and throw it away.
When transplanting flowers and seedlings, activated carbon is used to disinfect flower cuts or seedling roots, especially those that are slightly damaged. To do this, several tablets of activated carbon must be crushed into a very fine powder and powdered with slices or damaged roots.
Experienced gardeners also recommend activated charcoal for the prevention and treatment of such an unpleasant disease as "black leg", which often affects young seedlings. Its danger lies in the fact that with this disease, the root collar of the seedlings begins to rot, turns black, after which the plant falls and dies. For the prevention of "black leg" it is recommended to sprinkle the ground with crushed activated carbon. If the disease is caught by surprise, the diseased plants must be dug up and removed, and the earth must be sprinkled with activated charcoal and mixed.
We wish you a good harvest this year.
Why are activated carbon tablets added to the water for irrigating flowers? You add? and got the best answer
Answer from GIT + A [guru]
Charcoal is an excellent antiseptic and natural natural fertilizer, enriches earth mixtures, prevents rotting, regulates soil moisture, absorbs salts, improves soil structure.
Charcoal is used as a filler for indoor flower containers - as part of earth mixes or as a drainage for flower pots. Experts advise using charcoal as an additive in earthen mixtures for plants that do not tolerate waterlogging, such as cacti, palms, violets. The substrate for such plants should be light, moisture-absorbing and breathable. For this, pieces of charcoal are added to the soil, which has no nutritional value, but prevents soil acidification. Pieces of coal are good at absorbing all unpleasant odors from the substrate. In addition, coal absorbs water and minerals, giving them to the plant as the soil dries up, creating more favorable conditions for moisture for plants, while also possessing anti-rotting properties. When growing cacti and succulents, the addition of coal can be 3-8% of the total composition of the mixture.
Charcoal is also effective as an antiseptic. For disinfection, wounded roots are sprinkled with coal powder, cuts when cutting cacti and other succulent plants, cut parts of tubers before planting when propagating tuberous plants. In case of rotting tubers, the damaged areas are cut out to healthy tissue, sprinkled with crushed charcoal, dried.
Fine coal used as an additive in the preparation of a substrate for indoor plants(cacti, succulents, ferns, arrowroot, aroid, bromeliads, orchids), increases the water and air permeability of the substrate, prevents the occurrence of putrefactive processes in the underground parts of the plant, acting as an antiseptic.
Answer from 2 answers[guru]
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Answer from ELENA[guru]
It is recommended to add activated carbon in tablets to water for irrigation for adsorption of harmful substances. I am not adding.
Answer from Cholly[guru]
Coal is added to water to soften the water. From the tap, as a rule, hard water flows, which is not harmful to plants in principle, but leaves an ugly coating on the soil or ceramic pots. You can also soften the water by adding regular baking soda... A third teaspoon for 2 liters of water. As a rule, all ordinary houseplants easily adapt to the properties of the very water with which you water them. Of course, if you have very rare, capricious flavors, then you have to comply with all the requirements for their content. And even then, having rarities that are better to be watered with soft water, I have already accustomed them to ordinary tap water. But to water with settled water - I try to observe this rule.
Answer from Beautiful orchid[guru]
I pour it with very warm tap water
Answer from Galina russkova (churkina) GALJ[guru]
do not add watering tablets.
Answer from Andrey Dmitriev[expert]
You should not do this unnecessarily, there are different manufacturers and additives too ...
Although the idea itself is interesting.Coal is oxidized for the most part in air to CO2, and for plants this is extremely necessary,
since this is the main source of carbon from which some plants consist of up to 43% (dry matter), it will take a long time to oxidize. I do not advise.
Charcoal, it is a product of wood charring without air access. It is produced industrially and is widely used in the metallurgical industry.
But besides the main application, it is widely used in other areas, including horticulture and indoor floriculture.
Charcoal is a black porous mass that retains the structure of the tree. The density and color of the mass may vary depending on the type of wood used to prepare the charcoal.
One of the unique properties of this material is its high water absorption capacity (hygroscopicity). In addition, it is able to absorb various impurities from the water, purifying it. In addition, charcoal is a good antiseptic.
Application in indoor floriculture
In indoor floriculture, charcoal is used in several ways:
- Crushed charcoal is used to treat the roots damaged during transplanting or dividing the bush to avoid rotting;
- Coal is added to the soil for planting those plants that are afraid of over-watering. For example, cacti, succulents, orchids. In the case of a gulf, the coal will absorb some of the moisture and the plant will not suffer;
- When rooting cuttings in water, it is useful to put a piece of charcoal in the water, which will prevent the appearance of putrefactive bacteria in the water;
- When rooting cuttings in the ground, the cut is processed with charcoal to prevent rotting;
- When a part of a plant decays, a cut cleaned to living tissue is sprinkled with charcoal.
For floriculture purposes, charcoal is purchased in flower or gardening shops, packaged in small bags or briquettes.
When using coal, one should not forget that it must be stored in a sealed container without access to moisture, that is, either tightly wrapped in polyethylene, or stored in a jar with a sealed lid, since after the coal stays in the air for some time, it loses its valuable properties.
If you don't have charcoal on hand, you can use regular pharmacy activated charcoal sold in tablets. Also, in many stores you can find large bags of charcoal (you can see an example above, in the photo) - they are not expensive, it is not difficult to find them.