[CH] chlorine
Byron (Byron.Bromley@Gsd-Co.Com)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:56:45 -0400
>Byron's "drops" of chlorine are not going to disinfect pots. The usual
>mixture is 1:10 chlorine to water, and a ten minute soak. "Pepper
Diseases:
>A Field Guide" published by Asian Vegetable Research and Development
>Center, says a 2 hour soak in a 10% solution of TSP will clear up tomato
>mosaic and tobamoviruses from seeds. Old-time members of chile-heads have
>used chlorine to cure fungal disease in chile plants that anyone else
would
>have tossed out to die.
ML I think if you reread what I wrote, I use 2 drops of chlorine in 16 oz
or less
of water to treat 1 pkg of seeds. One of the chemist on the list stated
that it takes 8 drops to sterilize 1 gal of water. The last I knew that is
equal to 1 drop per pint aka 16 oz. My little formula is double that.
I did not state how much to use for pots. From 10 different sources I have
10 different answers. Anywhere from 2% to 20%
used
3 oz of clorox in about 4 1/2 gal of water. I used a 2 min soak. For 10
years I never had any infected beer.
I used the same amount for final wash of pots. In 5 years of using this
ratio I have not had problems. Not exactly Sci. fact, just something
that worked for me.
needed a minimum of a 2 min contact of fluid to pot for disease kill.
Maybe they are wrong, but it's working for me.
> I'm not talking about Byron, who has poisoned his part of the world
Do you say this to everyone that doesn't grow 100% organic ?
> then wants people to identify his mutations.
If you are refering to mislabeled seeds and wrong color pods, if you look
around I was not the only one.
>Margaret
FWIW, The above methods worked for me, If you don't like it, use
something else. I don't care.
I have 5 different plant pathologist, and a couple list chemist, that feel
that chlorine is a better chemical to kill bacterial/fungal/viral diseases
than
tsp, hot water or vinegar.
The final choice is yours
Byron