Re: [tomato] Re: Ranting
Thomas Giannou (Tomato@GlobalGarden.com)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:00:35 -0700
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From: Dave Anderson <Chilehead@tough-love.com>
To: <Tomato@GlobalGarden.com>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 10:30 AM
Subject: [tomato] Re: Ranting
> Here are a couple of websites for Byron's guru Jerry Baker.
>
> First go to Jerry's website at: http://www.jerrybaker.com and scroll
> through the FAQ's until you get to the one about tobacco juice. If
> the answer if true, (and I'm not saying that it is) it show's that
> Byron wasted a lot of everyone's time and bandwith.
>
> Then go to: http://www.wokv.com/jerry_baker_secretsrevealed.htm
> to find Jerry's updated Insect and disease prevention formula.
>
> Jerry Baker began his career selling books based on plant care
> using commonly available household products. If they worked so
> well, why is he promoting his own brand of chemicals now?
>
> > Mararet,
> >
> > Then he quotes a "Philip Morris professor" to uphold his claim that
> > tobacco isn't a major factor in solanaceae in the U.S. Wow!
> > How objective! Is anyone surprised that the fellow is not going to knock
> > tobacco? You can even find a creationist among the ranks of university
> > scientists. I'd like to put the sock in Byron. Margaret L
> >
> >
> > You appear to be just like the rest of the ranters. You only read one or
2
> > words then hit the rant button.
> >
> > Controling TMV in tobacco is just as important as controling it in
> > tomatoes and peppers, to the tobacco growers.
> >
> > If you read beyond Dr. Meltons sig, You would have found Dr. O.W.
Barnett
> > who the Director Of Plant Pathology at NCSU, and Dr. John Howell, UMASS
> > Plant pathology. Sorry their credentials outweight yours.
> >
> > If you also READ that there are 149 other plants that can carry TMV
> > and TMV can be seed borne. Then I think you missed the whole thing.
> >
> > What I tried to bring out here was the fact that even if you live
> > hundreds of miles away from any tobacco crop and you do not
> > use tobacco products you can still get TMV.
> >
> > I also tried to point out because of the very low amount of TMV in
> > Tobacco might explain why so many smokers do not pass on
> > TMV to their plants. I am not saying it can not happen.
> >
> > The concept of only tobacco and tobacco users spread this disease
> > was a 1890's conclusion.
> >
> > As far as JB's Forumla, I have shown that the probability of spreading
> > this disease is extremly slim.
> >
> > flip side of the coin
> >
> > YOU prove that it can spread TMV.
> >
> >
> >
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