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- From: Steve Diver <steved@ncatark.uark.edu>
- To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:31:09 -0600
| Silica/Silicate as a material to control diseases in greenhouse crops can be found the ag journals. In Canada, I'm pretty sure it has become a regular greenhouse industry practice to use something like potassium silicate. It is good for pythium and mildews on crops like greenhouse cucumbers. Quarles, W.  1995.  The truth about horsetails or natural
plant
 Cherif, M. ; Benhamou, N. ; Menzies, J.G. ; Belanger, R.R.
 Menzies,-J.; Bowen,-P.; Ehret,-D.; Glass,-A.D.M.
 Cherif,-M.; Belanger,-R.R.
 For mildew, a well established control is baking soda;
 Use of Baking Soda as a Fungicide
 Mildews are one of the principle diseases that compost teas
 Notes on Compost Teas
 Allan already mentioned BD 501, Horn Silica.  The other
 I'd be comfortable recommending horsetail tea, baking soda,
 For the green industry, biologicals are becoming more
 Plant Health Care has a comprehensive program of
 Plant Health Care
 I'm not familar with ironwood.  But just about everywhere
 Finally, Serenade is a biological fungicide from AgraQuest
 AgraQuest:: Serenade
 Interestingly, that is the same thing compost teas do.  Only
 Regards,
 Elijah Smith wrote: I'm sorta working with a nursery in the area (Hawaii) that is staffed by a pretty traditional crowd but is owned and run by a guy who's willing to try new things. So far, I'm turning the cuttings, etc into compost, trying to phase out vermiculite for the (locally available) cinder, brewing compost tea, etc. I've heard, mostly through anecdotes and biodynamics texts, that silica is an effective remedy for mildew & fungus diseases. Currently, the nursery is using some sorta biocide spray for this (we're on the wet side of the island). When the ironwood discussion came up, Robyn posted a quick and simply ironwood tea recipe for fungal spray. This would be cool, cheap, local, etc but I need some sorta reference to back up these claims. Does anyone know of any studies, reports, books, etc to that effect? | 
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            Re: [permaculture] Re: Holmgren Collected Writings
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- Re: [permaculture] Re: Holmgren Collected Writings, Graham Burnett, 03/26/2002
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            Re: [permaculture] Re: Thilo's web page in comparison to ATTRA's	web page,
            Thilo Pfennig, 03/26/2002
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            Re: [permaculture] Re: Thilo's web page in comparison to ATTRA'sweb page,
            Heide Hermary, 03/26/2002
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            Re: [permaculture] Re: Thilo's web page in comparison to ATTRA'sweb page,
            warlock, 03/26/2002
- [permaculture] Steve, Thilo, etc. - what's it really about?, John Schinnerer, 03/26/2002
 
- Re: [permaculture] Re: Thilo's web page in comparison to ATTRA'sweb page, Thilo Pfennig, 03/26/2002
 
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            Re: [permaculture] Re: Thilo's web page in comparison to ATTRA'sweb page,
            warlock, 03/26/2002
 
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            Re: [permaculture] Re: Thilo's web page in comparison to ATTRA'sweb page,
            Heide Hermary, 03/26/2002
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            [permaculture] Re: Holmgren Collected Writings,
            Pacific Edge Permaculture + Media, 03/27/2002
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            [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Elijah Smith, 03/27/2002
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            Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Allan Balliett, 03/27/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray, Allan Balliett, 03/28/2002
 
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        Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
        Steve Diver, 03/28/2002
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            Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Claude Genest, 03/29/2002
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            Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Elijah Smith, 03/29/2002
- [permaculture] help! I can't change my mail status or get off this list, Steve Fram, 03/29/2002
 
 
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            Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Elijah Smith, 03/29/2002
 
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            Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Claude Genest, 03/29/2002
 
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            Re: [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Allan Balliett, 03/27/2002
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            Re: [permaculture] Re: Holmgren Collected Writings, PDFs,
            John Schinnerer, 03/28/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Re: Holmgren Collected Writings, PDFs, Graham Burnett, 03/28/2002
- Re: [permaculture] Re: Holmgren Collected Writings, PDFs, Thilo Pfennig, 03/28/2002
 
- Re: [permaculture] Re: Holmgren Collected Writings, Thilo Pfennig, 03/28/2002
 
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            [permaculture] Silicon as fungal spray,
            Elijah Smith, 03/27/2002
 
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