Sulphur Candle?
How good are they for sterilizing a greenhouse.
Will it kill off both pests & diseases / fungus spores? Steve |
Sulphur Candle?
Will also kill each and every plant it comes into contact with.
-- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Sulphur Candle?
David Hill31/1/04 3:13
Will also kill each and every plant it comes into contact with. Ray says they used to use them donkey's years ago and found about the only effective thing they did was strip the galvanising off the wire supports. :-) -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
Sulphur Candle?
".......Ray says they used to use them donkey's years ago ........"
That's the thing some of remember using these things....well we used to burn piles of sulphur and also Nicotine shreds to fumigate and sterilize the greenhouses, no fun going back in if you had to re-light a pile or two. The sulphur dioxide and sulphur oxide given off (SO2 and SO) can combine with water to give sulphuric acid and sulphurous acid (H2SO4 and H2SO2). Works best in a damp house, and we used to spray the whole house with water before hand and with a solution of Formalhahyde after fumigation to add to the fun. Ray may remember doing some of this as well. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Sulphur Candle?
So as a means of sterilizing an empty greenhouse it is not effective & not
to be advised then? "David Hill" wrote in message ... ".......Ray says they used to use them donkey's years ago ........" That's the thing some of remember using these things....well we used to burn piles of sulphur and also Nicotine shreds to fumigate and sterilize the greenhouses, no fun going back in if you had to re-light a pile or two. The sulphur dioxide and sulphur oxide given off (SO2 and SO) can combine with water to give sulphuric acid and sulphurous acid (H2SO4 and H2SO2). Works best in a damp house, and we used to spray the whole house with water before hand and with a solution of Formalhahyde after fumigation to add to the fun. Ray may remember doing some of this as well. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Sulphur Candle?
So as a means of sterilizing an empty greenhouse it is not effective & not
to be advised then? "David Hill" wrote in message ... ".......Ray says they used to use them donkey's years ago ........" That's the thing some of remember using these things....well we used to burn piles of sulphur and also Nicotine shreds to fumigate and sterilize the greenhouses, no fun going back in if you had to re-light a pile or two. The sulphur dioxide and sulphur oxide given off (SO2 and SO) can combine with water to give sulphuric acid and sulphurous acid (H2SO4 and H2SO2). Works best in a damp house, and we used to spray the whole house with water before hand and with a solution of Formalhahyde after fumigation to add to the fun. Ray may remember doing some of this as well. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Sulphur Candle?
So as a means of sterilizing an empty greenhouse it is not effective & not
to be advised then? "David Hill" wrote in message ... ".......Ray says they used to use them donkey's years ago ........" That's the thing some of remember using these things....well we used to burn piles of sulphur and also Nicotine shreds to fumigate and sterilize the greenhouses, no fun going back in if you had to re-light a pile or two. The sulphur dioxide and sulphur oxide given off (SO2 and SO) can combine with water to give sulphuric acid and sulphurous acid (H2SO4 and H2SO2). Works best in a damp house, and we used to spray the whole house with water before hand and with a solution of Formalhahyde after fumigation to add to the fun. Ray may remember doing some of this as well. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
Sulphur Candle?
David Hill wrote:
Ray may remember doing some of this as well. Happy days, face red raw with tar oil, spraying nicosoap on apple trees with an old stirrup pump, lighting nicotine shreds and worse............... Last time I saw nicotine shreds was only about 4 years ago at a local wholesale pot plant grower - I was in there with Chris my former colleague who was still working with me then. I said look there, haven't seen those in years; before I could stop her with her insatiable curiosity she had her hands in the tray of nicotine shreds "oh what are they?" -me "fer gaws sake get yer hands out and wash 'em" She's still around, still gets her hands in everything. I see her from time to time. Oh and to the op don't waste your time with the sulphur candle there are better ways of doing the job. -- Rod http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html My email address needs weeding. |
Sulphur Candle?
Oh and to the op don't waste your time with the sulphur candle there are
better ways of doing the job. Ok. It's a bit like pulling teeth trying to get an answer. If there are better ways - pray tell me. |
Sulphur Candle?
Oh and to the op don't waste your time with the sulphur candle there are
better ways of doing the job. Ok. It's a bit like pulling teeth trying to get an answer. If there are better ways - pray tell me. |
Sulphur Candle?
Oh and to the op don't waste your time with the sulphur candle there are
better ways of doing the job. Ok. It's a bit like pulling teeth trying to get an answer. If there are better ways - pray tell me. |
Sulphur Candle?
SH wrote:
Ok. It's a bit like pulling teeth trying to get an answer. If there are better ways - pray tell me. This is a self help group not a free advice bureau so I suggest you phrase your questions accordingly. Google 'Greenhouse cleaning' will give you the advice of the RHS on the subject as well as sites offering cleaning materials from the traditional Jeyes/Armillatox tar oil preparations to more user/environment friendly alternatives - you choose. -- Rod http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html My email address needs weeding. |
Sulphur Candle?
SH wrote:
Ok. It's a bit like pulling teeth trying to get an answer. If there are better ways - pray tell me. This is a self help group not a free advice bureau so I suggest you phrase your questions accordingly. Google 'Greenhouse cleaning' will give you the advice of the RHS on the subject as well as sites offering cleaning materials from the traditional Jeyes/Armillatox tar oil preparations to more user/environment friendly alternatives - you choose. -- Rod http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html My email address needs weeding. |
Sulphur Candle?
Apologies if I offended you, but if you follow the thread of my opening
questions "How good are they for sterilizing a greenhouse. Will it kill off both pests & diseases / fungus spores?" there has been little response to my specific questions. Yes I have used Jeyes only in the past but I feel that whilst it does a good job it is not as thorough as fumigation. I used Jeyes in the Autumn as belt and braces before the growing season starts again I felt fumigation was the answer hence my questions. "Rod" wrote in message ... SH wrote: Ok. It's a bit like pulling teeth trying to get an answer. If there are better ways - pray tell me. This is a self help group not a free advice bureau so I suggest you phrase your questions accordingly. Google 'Greenhouse cleaning' will give you the advice of the RHS on the subject as well as sites offering cleaning materials from the traditional Jeyes/Armillatox tar oil preparations to more user/environment friendly alternatives - you choose. -- Rod http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html My email address needs weeding. |
Sulphur Candle?
I can remember as a child of 12 after becoming very interested with
gardening I persuaded my father to buy a greenhouse (40 years ago) Dad & me were very successful in growing tomatoes but one year I detected that all was not well & there was a disease problem (probably a virus or something as they were growing in the boarder). After reading in a gardening book the merits of using a sulphur candle I persuaded him to buy one & I lit the candle with the plants in the greenhouse. OH DEAR the following day DISASTER - not just diseased plants but dead plants & inedible fruits. We live & learn!! Oddly enough since then I have not seen sulphur candles very often in nurseries usually only the smoke cones. However, I noticed them on the shelf of my local nursery this year - maybe they have come back to haunt me :-) Oddly enough since then I have "SH" wrote in message ... Apologies if I offended you, but if you follow the thread of my opening questions "How good are they for sterilizing a greenhouse. Will it kill off both pests & diseases / fungus spores?" there has been little response to my specific questions. Yes I have used Jeyes only in the past but I feel that whilst it does a good job it is not as thorough as fumigation. I used Jeyes in the Autumn as belt and braces before the growing season starts again I felt fumigation was the answer hence my questions. "Rod" wrote in message ... SH wrote: Ok. It's a bit like pulling teeth trying to get an answer. If there are better ways - pray tell me. This is a self help group not a free advice bureau so I suggest you phrase your questions accordingly. Google 'Greenhouse cleaning' will give you the advice of the RHS on the subject as well as sites offering cleaning materials from the traditional Jeyes/Armillatox tar oil preparations to more user/environment friendly alternatives - you choose. -- Rod http://website.lineone.net/%7Erodcraddock/index.html My email address needs weeding. |
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