Category: Fungus

Brain Fart: Modified Atmospheres (no pun intended)

modified atmospheres.doc Some comments on how I understand this: At 05:42 AM 6/25/2008, you wrote: Keith Kridler Mt. Pleasant, Texas I posted the other day about plant matter needing CO2 and insects needing Oxygen to live and the gentleman posted…

Various

Hello everyone, Some brief responses to recent daffnet discussion. Nematode: I understood that nematodes were species specific. Before I export bulbs to the USA my soil has to be declared free of potato cyst nematode. In soil testing some clover…

HWT

Dear Friends, An interested discussion on HWT.  Daffodils and ealworm belongs together all over the world. But how to CONTROL this problem? The ealworm is active as long the bulbs are in the soil,they go in rest after digging and drying.…

an alternate to HWT?

Hot water treatment as far as I have read will NOT kill the various virus’s that daffodil bulbs can be infested with. Hot water treatment for bulbs is normally used to kill mites, nematodes, bulb flies ETC. There is an…

diseased bulb basal rot?

Here are a couple of healthy bulbs and one “soft” bulb. You can’t see it very well but there are shades of green mold and a wine colored fungus or mold growing around (consuming) the last of the remaining white…