Liquid Copper and other Fungicide treatments

Bgreen · Post by **Bgreen** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:39 am

I was wondering if anyone recommends treating palms as a preventative measure with a copper fungicide? This goes for both indoor and outdoor palms.

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:05 am

Not a good idea to treat with copper fungicide as a preventive measure. copper fungicides can be toxic to a palm tree and you only want to treat when absolutely necessary. Depending on what you want you want to treat for , there are gentler solutions out there.

What's your plan for winter? Are you going to try anything in the ground.

turtile · Post by **turtile** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:43 am

I use Propiconazale (systemic fungicide) which I buy from Bonide (named Infuse).

Since its systemic, it makes the plant toxic to fungus.

Copper is poisonous when too much is used so I would use it only to treat a large problem.

Bgreen · Post by **Bgreen** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:09 pm

OK thank you for the info guys.
I don't have any palms in the ground OP, and figured that it was to late to plant.
I was just going to over winter everything with my other plants I was going put
in a garage greenhouse.

oppalm · Post by **oppalm** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 6:46 pm

sounds like a good plan. what are you using for artificial lighting in the garage?

Bgreen · Post by **Bgreen** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:00 pm

Well I think I am now going to put everything in my basement and use an East window and South window for light along with a 6 bulb T5 unit. After figuring out the cost for a 1000W HID system and light mover it was more than I really wanted to spend. It should be fun beacuse I am going to be laying tile in the same area this winter, so I will have to move plants about a dozen times too, lol.