Disease Control

	Clean Start Dip To increase your success rate with cuttings and seeds. You need to remember what your mother use to say. "Go wash your hands, you don't know where that has been". This is true in propagating too. To avoid fungal diseases every thing must be clean before you start, even the cutting themselves. To start, clean everything that will touch the cuttings. Your hands, flats, shears, everything. Like a surgical theater everything must be sterile and remain that way. Once this has been accomplished the cuttings need to be cleaned. Simply place the cutting in a container of Clean Start Dip. Covering about an inch of the stem bottom, then let it soak for 10 minutes. When the soak is completed. It is important to rinse away the sterilizing solution from the cutting. At this point your ready to apply hormone and place the cutting in its container. $3.50 8 ounce Fungiban Home and Garden Captan Fungicide Contains 50.0% Captan Wettable Powder CONTROLS: Scab, Black Spot, Botrytis, Anthracnose, Brown Rot, Damping-Off, Root Rot, Leaf Spot, Brown Patch and Downy Mildew. APPLICATION:  1 to 3 Tbs. per gallon of water.  Packed in 8 oz. container.  Cannot be shipped to NY, NJ, CT, VT, HI, CA, AK 8 Ounce $6.95