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snappybob · February 22, 2011

I've called most of the major (real) garden centers around town looking for Actinovate and they all have said they either don't stock it anymore due to shelf life or they have it but it's expired. One garden center was suprized to find that their stock expired in 2009. One other said they would not order anymore because the product arrived already expired. (DOA). I sent an email to the website of the company that makes this stuff to try and get some answers. I would not be too inclined to pay ~$15 for a little package of biological fungicide that had an expiration date that expired 2 years ago. One lady told me that you really don't need to go by the expiration date. So why does the company that makes it put an expiraton date on their product? I'll let you all know what I find out.

February 22, 2011	#6
snappybob SETTFest™ Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 214	I've called most of the major (real) garden centers around town looking for Actinovate and they all have said they either don't stock it anymore due to shelf life or they have it but it's expired. One garden center was suprized to find that their stock expired in 2009. One other said they would not order anymore because the product arrived already expired. (DOA). I sent an email to the website of the company that makes this stuff to try and get some answers. I would not be too inclined to pay ~$15 for a little package of biological fungicide that had an expiration date that expired 2 years ago. One lady told me that you really don't need to go by the expiration date. So why does the company that makes it put an expiraton date on their product? I'll let you all know what I find out.