Damping off

[andy]

Got a few seedlings going down...looks like damping off.  Looked in garden centre today and couldn't find anything but man said to use bordeaux mixture.

Anyone had any success...it does contain copper sulphate, which would've been my choice.

[Tig]

It's an old favourite Andy. I tried without success to find some 'off the shelf' about two years ago, I did find this if you can get hold of the copper sulphate

msucares.com/newsletters/pests/infobytes/19990915.htm

Also other people use hydrogen peroxide

www.using-hydrogen-peroxide.com/peroxide-garden.html

I don't think anything rescues seedlings that have been affected by damping off though, all you can do is try and save the others.

[Chuckles]

Me and my remembering previous posts I remember Cheerypeabrain posting this as if it were yesterday

Feb 7, 2008 16:48:03 GMT Cheerypeabrain said:

The cheshunt compound is just a fungicide I think, it smells of old wet nappies (amonia) and comes in a tin...little crystals (a lovely violet colour) I make up a dilution and spray the pots after I've sown seeds. I also spray when I've pricked out...it's sposed to help prevent damping off.

As Tig said I don't think anything rescues seedlings andy

[andy]

I did have some cheshunt compound but can't find it. It's been withdrawn for sale now. I'll have one final look and if i can't find it, i'll try Bordeaux mix

[Chuckles]

Did you get sorted andy. I know when I looked for cheshunt compound it was difficult to find.

[andy]

Think it sorted it'self out in the end. I did find my tin of cheshunt compound but it's about 10 years old.