Re: white fly control
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 14:07:51 -0800
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What's a polytunnel ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Day <allan@crwys.demon.co.uk>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: white fly control
>On Wed 30 Dec, for-pac wrote:
>> -- [ From: for-pac * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
>
>> Its really understanding the lifecycle of the whitefly that gives the
best
>> opportunity for control.
>>
>> The white fly does well in moist hot conditions, and they prefer certain
>> plants (like peppers),
>>
>> for-pac
>
>Begging your pardon, but whitefly, and for that matter, red spider, are
>encouraged by dry conditions. We had problems with both in our
>polytunnel so installed an automatic misting system and solved both
>problems. Unfortunately by then we had trouble with the pests spreading
>cucumber mosaic virus and had to clear most of the cucumber but those
>which were least affected went on to give quite a useful crop to the end
>of the season.
>We also had peppers in another polytunnel which had a problem with
>curled leaves, reason unknown, but a drench of seaweed feed and
>installation of a misting system revived the plants which cropped
>heavily but late.
>--
>
>Allan Day Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
>
