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  • From: "Richard O'Barr" <aatopgunaa@mindspring.com>
  • To: <longdistshtr@infoave.net>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Organic Fireblight Treatment
  • Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 23:26:20 -0600

I thought that a long time ago that the Red Devil Lye came in a zinc
container.
TG
----- Original Message -----
From: "LONGDISTSHTR" <longdistshtr@shtc.net>
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:51 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Re: Organic Fireblight Treatment


> Changing pH in the leaf surface may work. It could be the reason
> seasoned locals plant a can of Red Devil Lye (sodium hydroxide) near the
> drip line of a pecan tree claiming it causes a more numerous pecan
> yield. Scoffing at the idea was my bent and still is. One cousin who
> does this sells pecans and I never have enough to take to market.
> I never asked him what he does with the new plastic containers. He used
> to punch holes in the old type cardboard containers prior to planting
> them. I use zinc fertilizer because of what I was taught by
> horticulturists.
> Lye could abate the disease which causes some pecans to develop nice
> shells with a deformed kernal, previously mentioned.¿Quién Sabe?
>
> "The power of accurate observation is called cynicism by those lacking
> it".
> Doc Lisenby
> Zone 7/8
>
>
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