--- Nina Shishkoff wrote:
..

Jim is being very hard on fungicides, but basically
he is correct (if
it's sold to the general public, that usually means
it doesn't work).
I never use fungicides on my bonsai. However,
there's a difference
between what's the best thing for people with just a
few plants to
do, and what's right for a nursery owner. Nursery
owners *have* to
spray for some things. Whereas you can just as
easily pull off
diseased leaves.

I beg to differ about fungicides. I had been loosing
pines on a regular basis. Last year I said what the
heck and dormant sprayed a sickly pine with lime
sulfer. I saved the pine. I believe it had some sort
of fungus (dull green scaly needles) So an over the
counter spray did help in this case. I now include
all my trees with the lime supfer dormant spray. I
use the oil spray only on the dicidious trees.

I live in California where the winters are relatively
mild and very wet.

Kitsune Miko

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