Hello Anita, I am in Ocala, North Central Florida, USA. E. William
Warren, Amaryllis Study Group amstgrp@yahoo.com

2C formula - antifungal liquid for irrigating seeds for sprouting instead
of water.
Use a drip coffee maker like a basic(simple type Mr. Coffee not a fancy
with lots of extra features).Do not put tea or herbs in coffee grounds
holder, Put 2 teabags of chamomile tea (flowers only and no her mixes with
your chamomile) and one teabag of ordinary tea into the tea pot that will
receive the hot water.Start the brewing switch. {Add 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon
to pot now to make 3C.}When the hot water has flowed into the pot, turn off
the machine and let the teabags soak until the water cools to room
temperature.Squeeze the teabags back into the pot of 2C and split equal
amounts into 2 clean plastic 2 liter soda bottles.Fill bottles to neck with
distilled water and cap.
Cleaning bottles = It is easy to forget cleaning these areas: inside
bottle neck; threads on outside bottle neck; and threads inside bottle cap.
2C can be used to:///Start/ immediately instead of water.Float seeds in glass
or bowl to sprout.Unfold a paper napkin/tissue flat on a plate-sprinkle on
the seeds spaced apart and mist each day. When sprouts are green, cut each
sprouted seedling with its root and paper. Plant into medium so the root is
not broken or disturbed.Plant seeds halfway into soil medium. Fully plant
seeds as needed. Lay seeds flat on soil medium. Mist these from above or
soaking from below in trays, pots, garden, etc.
I use this for sprouting instead of water. For hippeastrum and some other
plants you will be able to measure that the seedlings at 6 months are 25%
taller than with plain water.
This probabably will not work on some fungus other than wilts, but
prevents wilts like magic all over the world. If you used this from your
very first seed watering and you still got wilt, PLEASE email me. I have
not heard of a failure. The one time I had a problem years ago was with
hippeastrum reticulatum striatfolium seeds which were delayed a month in
international mail and had hard tiny white crystals (not wilt) at arrival.
It was too late and even 5C did not help. Bill Warren :
amstgrp@yahoo.com

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