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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

Bill, you can find Orbit (active ingredient propiconazole) available for backyard growers as Monterey Garden Fungi-Fighter.  If your local stores don't have it there are several mail-order suppliers.

This year I have done OK using a combination of Serenade and Saf-T-Side oil.  The Saf-T-Side oil is rated as reasonably good for brown rot; the Serenade is rated as only mildly good; the combination of using both in regular sprays is working for me.  The advantage of Orbit is you only need a couple sprays for effective control.  Orbit is not organic like the Serenade/oil but its relatively low-impact.

Scott

Z7 muggy MD (he remembers!)

> Growers here have long since abandoned  myclobutanyl for BR control 
> and Cornell only recommends it to control blossom blight which I've 
> never seen in 20 years- even on unsprayed trees.  Indar or Orbit are 
> much more affective SI's for this purpose as I understand it and with 
> them I harvest stone fruit on the wettest years without much BR loss.  
> Pristine is the new kid on the block for this purpose.   Bumper is a 
> cheaper generic version of Orbit.


None of these are available for backyard growers, though, are they? I 
can rarely find the fungicides recommended for most of this stuff, so I 
have to use what I CAN get.