Daconil

duajones · December 22, 2006

For those of you who use it, when do you start spraying your seedlings? Do you wait until hardening off time, or start spraying them while they are still under the lights?

Suze · December 23, 2006

Duane, no need to spray while they are under lights, but I do start spraying as soon as they go outside to harden off. Daconil works best as a preventative (by sealing attachment sites for fungal spores); don't wait until you start to see problems to use it.

Tomatovator · December 31, 2006

When the plants go outside to harden off how about a quick dunk in a container of Daconil solution to ensure complete coverage? It would be easy for me to do as I put in a small number of plants.

Suze · January 2, 2007

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Originally Posted by Tomatovator

When the plants go outside to harden off how about a quick dunk in a container of Daconil solution to ensure complete coverage? It would be easy for me to do as I put in a small number of plants.

I think you'll find that it would be easier to just go ahead and spray them. For just a few plants, a one gallon wand type pump sprayer might be a nice size, especially for when they get larger. In any case, you don't have to fill it up all the way.

December 22, 2006	#1
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	Daconil For those of you who use it, when do you start spraying your seedlings? Do you wait until hardening off time, or start spraying them while they are still under the lights?

December 23, 2006	#2
Suze Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 3,027	Duane, no need to spray while they are under lights, but I do start spraying as soon as they go outside to harden off. Daconil works best as a preventative (by sealing attachment sites for fungal spores); don't wait until you start to see problems to use it.

December 31, 2006	#3
Tomatovator Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Zone 6 Posts: 461	When the plants go outside to harden off how about a quick dunk in a container of Daconil solution to ensure complete coverage? It would be easy for me to do as I put in a small number of plants.