I thought I would share a Stagonospora treatment that worked much better than expected. I used to be devastated when Hippeastrum buds would push up and then turn to the side as Stagonospora infected the stem because I knew that even if I got to see the blooms, it would rot through before the seed matured. I had bought a systemic fungicide - Bonide Infuse - in order to do some crinum chipping and I thought I'd give it a try on stagonospora, so I went online to buy some syringes (they also come in handy for other applications like oiling small fans and blowers, grandfather clocks, etc). I had little hope for the bloomstalks, but if there was a best way to apply a systemic fungicide where it would do the most good, filling up the hollow bloomstalk seemed like it. So far, I'm batting 100% as these two photos suggest. In the Jade Dragon x Emerald photo, you can see a normal bloomstalk in the background and healthy but senescent blooms in the foreground and in the stagonospora photo, you can see the extent of the damage before the fungus was stopped and two healthy seedpods. Since the fungicide dilution ratio is high, I made about a gallon of solution and have been going around dribbling it into the necks of dormant bulbs too. Good luck! Tim -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Jade dragon x emerald copy.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 201737 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: stagonospora copy.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 208943 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/…> _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
