I used to have the information for a bleach water dip for gladiolus croms before planting or ststorage to control fungus.
All I get on searchs are dips for tools. 10% if you want to know.
Do you know the recipe for the bleach dip used to kill exterior fungus spores on croms?
It’s corms. Stupid mudled brain. It’s worse than posting drunk.
Not offhand. But I doubt it’s a very critical concentration. A cup or so a five gallon container works for me. And gives me snowy white corms if I’m remembering correctly.
I want the fungus dead and not the corms, so I’m going to be careful about it. I’ve been multiplying them for years and have a lot to lose, if I screw up. I don’t want to use a agercultural fungicide, when a bleach dip works.
PDF:
http://www.cips.msu.edu/landscape/originals/Nursery%20publication/Plant%20disease%20mgt.pdf
Presumably that’s 1 part Clorox, 9 parts water. Too bad the article doesn’t say how long to dip them. I’d guess 10 minutes or less.
“By Morrigan, Macha, and Nemain!” swore Conan the Barbarian,“My sword, my gladius, stinks of some wizard’s brew! Crom!”
I saw crom in the title and, fan of Robert E. Howard that I am, that’s all I can think of.
This is one reason I love this Board – peope post things that, to others, make no sense whatsoever. Or thoroughly misunderstand, like when someone posted about Belle and Sebastian and all I could think was that it was a Disney crossover flick.
Can someone translate the OP title for me? I assume it’s something horticultural.
My mind was stuck on “crom” at the time of posting instead of corm. I kept thinking of barbarians when I looked at the word, but didn’t know why something in the term was off.
Gladiolus are a spike bloom habit flower. Corms are refered to as bulbs by people that don’t know better. I want to kill fungus spores to help them stay healthly without a fungicide powder. You did up the corms in the fall and replant in the spring.