Thoughts about rain

[BURR]

IF,
If it's going to rain, light rain or a mist would you go ahead and fertilize/fungicide and insecticide?
My thoughts are yes, it rains or something here about everyday so I just go ahead and do it. I figure that the worst that will happen is that it will run down and into the soil and keep on doing it’s thing.
I don’t go out in the rain but I will treat everything in the morning knowing it’s going to rain.
The insecticide is for my roses and mums and it has not hurt the Orchids in the pass so I just keep on doing what I was doing before I got all these Orchids and joined this wonderful group.
If you think I’m wrong tell me, I was wrong once before, back in 1969 (Nam). Otherwise, everyone have a great time and remember a family that flowers together blooms together.

[Dantheman]

your only problem will be if it washes off it becomes largely ineffective

[BURR]

YES BUT,
It rains everyday most of the year

[Ray]

1) Spray after the rain, not before.

2) Erect some sort of protection so you can control the watering schedule.

[Jo Ann]

This is my current feelings about the rain… ...I grow everything outside and I am not able to construct some type of shelter as I am just a renter…

[BURR]

Ray,
Thanks for the reply. Sometimes it rains every evening and then we get a few days with out rain. Sometime it rains the night after I water.
If I built a shelter then no one could enjoy them. The first four and the three I put in the trees are flowering and doing find.

[BURR]

Jo Ann,
Well it's warm down there so maybe it will help.

Sorry about renting!!!!!

[Des]

During periods of sustained rain I add a a wetter or a sticker to my spray and to the fertilizer water and spray as soon as the rain holds up for a few hours . This makes it difficult to wash off. At certain times of the year it can rain on and off for 3 weeks here on the coastal belt of SA. The rain is always welcome but if you are growing plants in pots , then the rain will wash the nutrient out of pot and eventually out of the plant as well, this weakens the plants immune system and can lead to fungal infections . So I also include a product called Sporekill in my feed water which gives the plants some measure of protection
Hope this is of help to you
Des Gillespie

[BURR]

Yes, thank you.
Now is the Sporekill the sticker/wetter?

[Des]

No Sporekill is not the wetter. I use Efecto G-49 wetter.
I don't think you will find it in your country under that name .Ask your local garden shop for a wetter or a sticker . Sporekill rids your water of fungus spore and other nasties.