Re: Foliar nematodes
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- Subject: Re: Foliar nematodes
- From: "* N* <s*@ce.net>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:15:32 -0400
Bob Solberg is quoted below,
"You can "cook" the hosta clump or a piece of the plant. This will kill the
nematode eggs in the plant. To cook, use only dormant hostas, I do this in
February, about a month before emergence. You can do this in the kitchen
sink with tap water and a good thermometer.The proper cooking time is
somewhere between 120 degrees F for 20-25 minutes to 130 degrees F for 10
minutes.
Try doing different pieces of the same hosta at several bracketed temps and
times. The lethal temps and times for
hostas are very close to these "recommended" ones, thus you will kill all
the roots on the hostas and maybe the whole plant. So pot them up and regrow
the roots and put the plant in the ground in August."
The above is quoted from a message from Bob Solberg, Green Hill Farm.
Dan Nelson
Bridgeville DE
zone 7
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From: GPETHER321@aol.com <GPETHER321@aol.com>
To: hosta-open@mallorn.com <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 07, 1998 5:54 AM
Subject: Re: Foliar nematodes
>A method that was mentioned on the old AHS robin for killing foliar
nematodes,
>was to plunge the whole plant into boiling hot water for a couple of
minutes.
>
>I would only try this on an expensive plant that I wanted to try to rid of
the
>nematodes, kind of kill or cure. Any others I would burn.
>
>Glen UK
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