Bheejamrutham - Seed Treatment...
For Bheejsanskar - Seed Treatement
Bheejamrutham.
For 100kg Seed treatment.
- 20ltr Water
- 5ltr Cow Urine from Desi cow only.. No bull or buffalo
- 5kg Fresh Cow dung from Desi cow
- 50gm edible Lime stone, Chunnambu
- 1 fist soil from our farm land. This is to deactive the microbes that exist for years in the soil.
Preparation:
Stir it well clockwise using a wooden stick.
Store it overnight for fermentation.
Next day use it for Seed Treatment.
For Monocot Gramineae family crops, like grains, pulses, millets, oilseeds, except soya and groundnut.
Take the seeds and sprinkle Bheejamruth and use fingers to slowly mix them. Do not Rub as it will remove the skin of the seed and damage it.
Potato, Banana sapling, ginger, turmeric,
Take the seeds in a pour Bamboo basket and dip the basket into Bheejamruth and hold it for few seconds and then hang it out..
Sweet potato, beetel leave, vanilla, cuttings
Dip in Bheejamruth and then plant it.
Seeds of Fruits.
Dip the seeds in Bheejamruth, dry it and then sow it.
Seeds of Vegetables
Wash the seeds from the packet as it might have some chemicals.
Then Dip in Bheejamruth and then dry it and sow it.
Why Bheejamrutham?
Seeds get Fungus coated that flow along with wind. When sowed, the Fungus in these seeds start killiing the plant. When they get moisture, they enter the root and slowly enter the plant and reach its Leaves. Hence, Bheejamruth coating kills the Fungus on the Seed hence saving the seed and its growth after sowing.
Seed-borne diseases will be avoided..
This Process is Purification / Shuddhikaranam / Bheejasanskara of the Seed.
Sources of Nitrogen, Phosphate, Potash. in ZBNF
78.6% Nitrogen in air.
Very good information
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