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Phal problem. Help!
I received two personal emails that lead me to believe that microfungus is
the name given to the fungus organism or group of fungus organisms that produce the symptoms you see in your first picture. One of the emails mentioned that the symptoms shown in your first picture, third picture and sixth picture to be those associated with mircofungus. I am guessing that while fungus which produce rots are microfungus by this website's definition, I think mircofungus, as the word is used here, is meant to exclude the fungus that we typically refer to when we are talking about 'rots' and to refer to the fungus that cause a specific type of symptom. If I get any more emails that shed more light on the subject, I'll let you know. If you ever had mites, the hort oil probably took care of them. Even a small mite infestation can be easily followed by fungus, bacterial and virus problems. They spread these pathogens and they leave lots of open wounds that these pathogens can use to enter the plant. Physan will not destroy any of these pathogen once they are *inside* the plant tissue. I have been informed that it is not systemic. It can only destroy the pathogens on the outside of the plants to stop them from getting in. Burn you whole collection. In fact burn down your house. ...and then wash hands with hot soapy water. You can buy a new house and start a new orchid collection tomorrow. "Steve" wrote in message t... Al wrote: ................................... Microfungus (micromycete) - The term microfungus, meaning small fungus, is used for fungi in which a microscope must be used for even casual observation of the spore-producing structures. The majority of fungi are microfungi and their study requires experience with the use of microscopes. If this is the only meaning to the term and if it does not refer to a specific fungus or group of fungus than "microfungus" means nothing different from the term "fungus" as I generally see it used in this newsgroup and applied to fungual infections of our plants............ ...................... Al, that's interesting. Obviously, the term microfungus somehow came to mean something else among some orchid growers. I wonder if it was a misunderstanding at some point. Steve |
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