RE: Bap-10 and regarding an email Mary Chastain posted a long time ago?

Bill this is the second year after the BAP treatment.  Most of the plants
are now dead or dying. The treated plants have less divisions than the
untreated. Only two look as if they may recover and one of them came back
without the nice qualities that I treasured.  As I can find the time I am
digging and replacing all of the treated plants.  I get better quality and
stronger plants by leaving BAP in the bottle.
Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hosta-open@mallorn.com
[o*@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of Bill Nash
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:08 PM
To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
Subject: Bap-10 and regarding an email Mary Chastain posted a long time
ago?


BAP-10 SPRAYING OF HOSTAS IN LATE SUMMER! ...looks like a NO'NO? ..and yes!
...that is the question:

Seems to me? ..that spraying hostas in late summer (mid to late August) in
an attempt to induce new offshoot production, can result in a negative
dwarfing of the next generation of eyes, shoots and plant's growth cycle?

TO WHIT -- last year I sprayed Great Expectations, June & Patriot.  These
were field-liners; in their second summer of growth here, after obtaining
them from a tissue culture lab.
                  No new offshoots resulted last year, and this spring the
plants are quite dwarfed; and again, are still single stemed/shoots, with
no new eyes (off shoots?).  Meanwhile, plants which were sold from these
batches to others last year, and planted in their own gardens, without any
BAP-10 treatments = all are three eyed plants <<and this is the minimum>>
!!!

I recall, that Mary Chastain, reported something comparable/similar via
E-mail, when she did an autumnal BAP treatment the year before I
did?  Thought I should mention this.  I personally, will never ever do a
late summer BAP10 treatment again ..on anything!!!! ..since it looks like I
would have had at least 3 times the quantity of plants, had I not used the
autumnal treatment of BAP10?

AND ...am I wrong on my assumptions REGARDING -- what happens when you
BAP10 your hostas in late summer?  I THINK NOT!

<<just curious & wondering: WHAT Y'ALL THINKS?>>  "hehe"

:-B))
aka Bill Nash Guelph Ontario Canada

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