Bllra. Tahoma Glacier with Terrible Leaves

[WaterWitchin]

Gracias SouthPark, I’ll see if it’s available around here.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by WaterWitchin

I can barely afford Innocur as a preventative.

Let me make a couple of comments on that.

Yes, it's pricey, but the lack of rotting is awfully nice, considering what I've spent on plants.

A one-liter bottle will make about 25 gallons of solution, and with a moderate collection, one can go through that in fairly short order. However, I have found that if you water the plants thoroughly with it about every few months and spray them with it the other months, the protective population of microbes is apparently sustained, with a lot less product used.

The product is not sold as a curative, but I do know that doubling the concentration, then submerging the plants overnight, followed by daily misting with that same solution for about a week, has taken care of some pretty nasty rots I've dealt with. And for a few plants, it's worth it.

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[WaterWitchin]

Good tips, Ray. Since I do exclusively SH for the most part, when I first started using it once a month I put it in same water I was flushing with. I recently started just using plain RO for the flush, then a goodly glug or two of Inocucor mixed in RO but not nearly as much down the drain as it was with a flush. That helped. Wasn't sure if it would work out the same, but affordable that way.

I like the idea of a double-dosing solution, soaking overnight, followed by spraying each day for awhile. I've already separated them from other orchids and I'll give it a shot. Better yet, maybe I'll use a systemic fungicide on one, and the Inocucor on the other two.

Look out!! WaterWitchin is getting the Bill Nye experiment bug!

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Originally Posted by SouthPark

Waterwitchin - could try agri-fos systematic. It's along the same lines as yates anti-rot phosacid. Around 18 to 19 dollars.

Even if this isn't the treatment for the cause of this, it'll be excellent to have this sort of systematic fungicide in the kit. That's if you haven't got this one already.

I looked it up. Gonna get some. And it says it cures late tomato blight...something I struggle with every year. I try to grow organic in the veggie garden, but Hmmmm...

[WaterWitchin]

So interestingly enough, my buddy David Bird (orchid breeder) and I got a chance to get together this weekend. I showed him pictures of the leaves on this Bllra. He immediately said... It got cold, didn't it? I said Only for a night. I lost a heater in basement but fixed it within a day or so. But it can't be from the cold, but cause only it and two other Aliceara show this. He asked what other orchids were on same shelf, and I told him. He said obvious cold damage... think of the leaf structure of them as compared to the others (all thicker leaved on the shelf).

I thought some might be interested. PS I trimmed off almost all that looked bad, and new growth is showing no effects.