Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Bulbs => Galanthus => Topic started by: annew on February 02, 2016, 07:58:16 PM
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I came across these photos from an experiment I did in 2011 and promptly forgot I did it!
I had some slightly dodgy bulbs and to save them I chipped them and divided each variety into two lots, one lot trated with a fungicide, and one with trichoderma solution, to see if one would be more effective than the other. Results below:
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Another result from this year. Seriously poorly bulbs cleaned and saved by chipping.
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That's fascinating, Anne; particularly for me as I don't have access to fungicide. But we only see the results after a short time; did the chips go on to fulfil their early promise?
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Good question! I'll try and find out.
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Do you remember whether you cut each bulb in half first so that each bulb got each treatment?
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Looking at the second photo in the Wendy's Gold group, it would seem so.
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What fungicide do you use ?
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Are flowers of sulfur could be sufficient as a fungicide?
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I seem to remember forumist jamouatt telling me of a bad experience using sulphur on mature plants. I suppose it might be different for chips.
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What fungicide do you use ?
Back then it was something you can't get now. Last year I used Fungus Fighter which seemed to work fine.
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I seem to remember forumist jamouatt telling me of a bad experience using sulphur on mature plants. I suppose it might be different for chips.
Alan, that is interesting as I used sulphur on some year old chips last year and seem to have lost a lot of them. Could be coincidental but I had not considered sulphur being the problem before.
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Not a problem of Narcissus chips from damaged bulbs