Cinnamon as an orchid fungicide - Science or Nonsense

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Originally Posted by Ray

Why would you do that when many infections are bacterial? That probably wouldn’t pass “peer review.”

Half a loaf is better than none.

I think cinnamon bark powder is primarily a desiccant (and far better than sawdust),

Cinnamon is sawdust. How do you know that very fine cedar, redwood, or cypress sawdust are not equally desiccating? Silica gel would probably be much better.

When extracted in water or alcohol, cinnamaldehyde is present, which is well-established as a mild bactericide and fungicide.

I've never heard anyone advise people to use cinnamon essential oils. Consider also that cedar, redwood, cypress sawdust also have bactericidal and fungicidal properties.

I used a q-tip to “paint” the nail and cuticle with cinnamon leaf oil, covering with a bandaid, and within 6 weeks the infection was gone. It takes about a year for the damaged nail to be replaced, but there was a sharp delineation between the new-, and damaged tissue. That dermatologist now recommends it routinely.

Nice. You were thinking and questioning. A lot of the antibiotics doctors prescribe are known to be ineffective much of the time. In recent testing 50% of target bacterial infections were resistant to amoxicillin, 33% were resistant to co-trimoxazole and 25% were resistant to trimethoprim. Take a baby with an ear infection to the doctor and most of the time they'll send you on your way with a prescription for amoxicillin.

-Keith

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Originally Posted by SADE2020

Every time I try to don’t do anything I loose a bulb or even the entire plant, the humidity level must matters a lot to.. as you and Roberta states.

Humidity levels, but also air movement.
-Keith

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Originally Posted by SADE2020

For strange stains or as a spot treatment, I make a paste with Vaseline, cinnamon, algae extract and a drop of MANDIPROPAMID (mandelic acid). (recipe from a biologist friend).

This works extremely well for me, so I don't even question anything else.

Doing a couple searches, it seems that mandipropamid is one of the active ingredients in the commercial fungicide Revus, which I can only find sold by the gallon for some $500us. How did you get started using this one?



-Keith