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Old July 26, 2010   #15
dice
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While the Clorox company has scads of different bleach products
for specialized uses ("hard surface", etc), standard Clorox is
laundry bleach, 5-6% sodium hypochlorite.

Baking Soda as a fungicide (research summary):
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/bakingsoda.html

The active ingredient in Dithane is mancozeb (not a
Daconil product). This site suggests that some
uses of mancozeb can be replaced by Oxidate,
including control of botrytis:
http://www.enviroselects.com/mancoze...e-alternative/

Search the disease forum here for threads on late blight.
There are some good summaries, particularly from Cornell
University.
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