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ROBERT LAURENCE wrote:
Does any one have a favorite multi use fungicide/insecticide?

TIA,
Robert

I'm not one for chemical warfare if I can help it, but the
only one _I_ know of that does both is lime sulfur. But its
use for either is not for the faint of heart.

I'll repeat redundantly again that 90 percent of the
fungicides the unlicensed multitude can buy don't do
anything, and of the other 10 percent, most don't do much.
For fungus, cleanliness IS godliness.

In the pesticide field, the MOST multi-use solution is a
hard spray of water aimed at the offending insect. It is
just about the only thing that will control spider mites.

Soap sprays will adversely affect many sucking insects
(aphids, white flies, mealybugs, some of the true bugs
(stinkbugs), and to a MUCH lesser extent spider mites.

Light horticultural oils will generally get what soap
doesn't, except again, spider mites (and there are a few
sprays that combine the two, or you can make your own with
formulas you can find on our website or in our archives).

If you MUST see them drop in their tracks, a spray with
pyrethrin works. For caterpillars, there's BT.

NO ONE needs a bigger arsenal than that.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature
encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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