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So, let’s continue our journey following the trail of clueless bloggers. One of the most important stages of garden care is eradicating treatment. We often perform eradicating treatment using iron or copper vitriol.
A critical review of popular garden treatment recipes warns against using copper vitriol with green soap, highlighting risks to sprayers and effectiveness.
Key Takeaways
- Mixing copper vitriol with potassium-based green soap causes harmful clumping and sprayer damage.
- Many popular garden treatment recipes online are untested and potentially dangerous.
- Conventional iron and copper vitriol treatments remain the safest and most effective.
- Viewers should be cautious of bloggers who promote unsafe gardening methods without practical experience.
- Protect your garden equipment by avoiding unverified chemical mixtures.
What the video covers
- The video critiques common garden eradicating treatments using iron and copper vitriol.
- Iron vitriol is recommended for autumn, copper vitriol for spring before bud opening.
- Many bloggers promote mixing copper or iron vitriol with urea and green soap as a sticker.
- The presenter demonstrates that mixing copper vitriol with potassium-based green soap causes curdling and clogs sprayers.
- This reaction not only damages expensive sprayers but also renders the treatment ineffective.
- The video exposes how some degreed agronomists and bloggers spread unsafe and untested recipes.
- The presenter performs an experiment showing the formation of clots that block sprayer valves.
- Warnings are issued to viewers to be cautious of misleading online gardening advice.
- The importance of using tested, conventional garden treatments is emphasized.
- The video encourages vigilance to protect garden equipment, money, and mental well-being.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to garden eradicating treatments
- 00:43Critique of bloggers' recipes using vitriol and urea
- 01:15Demonstration of copper vitriol curdling with green soap
- 01:37Impact on sprayer filters and equipment
- 01:59Example of another blogger promoting unsafe mixtures
- 02:34Lack of practical testing by popular bloggers
- 02:47Experiment showing vitriol and green soap reaction
- 03:43Consequences for garden equipment and treatment effectiveness
- 04:29Final warnings and advice to viewers
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
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First, we pour in the iron vitriol solution. Iron is preferable in autumn, while copper is better in spring before the buds open. We treat the shoots, the trunk, but this is somewhat interchangeable in both autumn and spring.
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Spring has arrived. Although, as I just mentioned, many bloggers invent all kinds of recipes based on copper vitriol, iron vitriol, urea, and other components.
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Conventional agents will not cope. They claim that stickers are necessary for them. As one of the popular stickers, they suggest using green soap. Well, one degreed agronomist also used green soap.
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Specifically the liquid kind, which is potassium soap. As a result, right on camera, her solution curdled. The copper vitriol curdled. And we treat the entire garden with this kind of blue solution.
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Well, okay, she didn't admit it, and didn't warn her viewers that such a solution curdles and clogs the sprayer completely.
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Oh, see the filter? Look how clogged it is. Now I will have to wash the filter.
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That is, as they say, on her conscience and the taste of her viewers. But the danger here is that other bloggers followed this degreed agronomist, seduced by her papers, diplomas, and documents confirming her education.
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Look at this character. He says absolutely the same thing. We pour the vitriol in a thin stream into our urea solution and stir thoroughly. We must add any sticker. We have Biolipostim, but any other will do. You can use green soap. The main
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thing is to follow the dosage. And we add the sticker. We mix all this thoroughly. And our solution is ready for garden treatment. But this threatens even expensive battery-powered sprayers with total damage and failure. What does this tell
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us? That this character has never even once tried to make the recipe he is talking about himself.
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See, everything is covered in dirt. I think the valve there is no longer holding.
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Unfortunately, there are a huge number of such bloggers who have never tried to do anything they recommend, and they parrot this silly, silly content one after another.
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Any of these valves, any one, can get stuck. Let’s mix it, let's mix it ourselves and see. Let’s take copper vitriol and dissolve it in water. We get a traditional, cute, little blue solution. We need to wait a little for the
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vitriol to dissolve. It dissolves poorly in cool water. And even in warm water, you need to wait. For the experiment, let’s take this green soap. Well, it has already taken on a little blue color. We pour this green
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soap directly into the vitriol solution. Yes. We pour it and see what happens.
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You can see how the vitriol begins to clump together, forming these kinds of clots that will truly clog your sprayer for good. Besides being lethal for the sprayer, this also completely destroys the effectiveness of the vitriol itself, as the copper binds into potassium
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metal soaps—special soap compounds that, alas, do not affect harmful organisms. It is obvious that Victoria Karel'evna hid the unpleasant truth that her recipe is not only ineffective but also dangerous for garden equipment.
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I have a sprayer like this, and yesterday it really let me down. And thoughtless bloggers, without a doubt, carry these experiments of hers with your equipment and your sprayers over into their own blogs.
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Well, I poked around, in short, it’s ruined. Therefore, be very vigilant. Right now, there is a huge number of deceivers and scammers online—irresponsible people who are not gardeners or growers at all and do not understand what they are even talking
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about. Let’s check. It works. Stay on alert. Protect your garden, your money, and your nerves. See you soon.
Topics:garden carecopper vitrioliron vitriolgreen soapgarden sprayergarden treatmentplant protectiongardening mistakesagronomygarden equipment
