anti-fungicide
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anti-fungicide
Just got the book "Palms won't grow here and other myths" and was wandering how essential is spraying the crown with anti-fungicide. Anyone have experience with that?
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Hi Jeff...i have this book too, and i did that with all my palms at home and at my customers near Montreal. With my experience, its better to spray all the leaves with the fongicide/bactericide. Use the powder mixed with water and spray. I did spray only the crown last winter and i had 1 Trachy ( i had 12 palms outside last winter) with a fongic problem on the leaves but not in the crown. So i think if we spray all the leaves, we wont have this problem.
I think its maybe the mushroom spore in the air during the summer stay on the leaves during the winter, and inside the protection cage, we don t have ventilation. So thats the perfect environment for the spore, thats cause the fongic problem. If we spray all the leaves, we will kill all the spore before closing the cage.
Thats my way to see that....
Ben
I think its maybe the mushroom spore in the air during the summer stay on the leaves during the winter, and inside the protection cage, we don t have ventilation. So thats the perfect environment for the spore, thats cause the fongic problem. If we spray all the leaves, we will kill all the spore before closing the cage.
Thats my way to see that....
Ben
Would this be effective?
http://bloggingherbman.typepad.com/tips ... prays.html
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If you open the cover once in a while-letting moisture out- you don't need it.
I would not spray any type of oil in the crown any time of year.
I don't use fungicide on my palms until they have pulled and then only
down the hole where it pulled to help it stay dry.
I would not spray any type of oil in the crown any time of year.
I don't use fungicide on my palms until they have pulled and then only
down the hole where it pulled to help it stay dry.
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Thats what I pepper the blow hole with(just drizzle a little copper f powder),it keeps the core dry so the damage doesn't spread.turtile wrote:Bacteria is usually the cause of rot after cold. You'll need to use fungicides that double as bactericides such as copper.
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