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Poly and bleach, is it safe?
Comments (28)Yeah, what a really diverse and interesting thread this has turned out to be! juniorballoon, Well as to the hydrochloric acid (toilet cleaner) details. It is great at removing limescale and iron deposits from toilets so, how about using it on a bath! The kitchen and bath stuff is really weak and won't make much impact on a really crusty bath. Squirt the stuff on, wipe it all around the bathtub with a cloth (wearing rubber gloves) and leave it for 15 minutes before "flushing". Well flushing for a bathtub is turn on the hot water on the shower and get on your knees and lean over a tub and wash/scrub it. The acidic fumes made me want to sneeze. for future reference a sneeze is a way your body rejects something that is harmful or irritating. Before you sneeze your body (well mine did) draws in an enormous lung full of air so the sneeze is as powerful as it can be. Ummm.. now I have a pair of lungs full of HCL fumes. That really hurt! To cut a long story short, the bathroom is very small, I made it out the door. Do I still use toilet cleaner to clean the bath? Yeah I do! once every couple of months. Go in there, coat the tub in "toilet cleaner" run away. Go in there, hold my breath, scrub, run away, exhale, inhale, go back in hold breath, scrub, run away. get the idea? BORAX, Looks like it kills mold, looks like it is reasonably safe to humans. SIMPLE GREEN, Looks like it is a de-greaser and so will clean things that are greasy. However not many of us have a greasy dirt problem in a greenhouse. (well I do but that is because of a Bio-fuel experiment that is classified at this time) Moldzyme, Now we are talking, it is Citric Acid, kills mold and is on the safe list! I mentioned vinegar (Acetic Acid) which is in the same family and is also on the safe list. Water Quality, ""Its high in Iron, high in Calcium and a lot of other stuff that's very supportive of algal growth"" We have many people here who are having problems with their water (me included) and there are threads discussing ways of treating water to reduce the problems. ""you are just trying to be rude and pick a fight because someone actually has the balls (if not the sperm) to disagree with you"" Balls but no sperm on a thread that mentions bisphenol A is really funny!!!! To go back to the question "Poly and bleach, is it safe?" No it is not really in the long term. There are better solutions to your problem of mold on your treated wood in your polycarbonate covered greenhouse than bleach. What this is turned into is how people clean the crap off their polycarbonate. In conclusion, my expert advice is spray on a substance like Moldzyme, wipe it off the wood, then spray again and leave it....See MoreWhen do you dust off your Greenhouse
Comments (4)Not a Californian, but when the nighttime lows start to be around 45 it gets my attention, so now is a good time to start "dusting off the greenhouse." I have plants in there year round, but now I'll get my electric heaters out of storage and plug them into the thermostats. We've had some lows in the high 40s, so it's also time to start moving my non-hardy potted plants off the patios and into their winter home. The crew that lives in the greenhouse year round gets shifted into tighter formations, to make room for the others. Lugging those big pots around is not quite as much fun as it was when I was a few years younger. Fall never seems to last long enough......See MoreBlooming Tonight!
Comments (8)Susan, Thanks. Joyce, Its around 3 ft. tall and yes its in a pot. It spent the winter in the GH. And its the 2nd time its bloomed since I took her out. It has branched out a bit, I hate the cut them to one truck. lol Thanks Knotz the JY doesn't have a lot of leaves. It have around of spider mites before it came out of the GH. So the plants leaves doesn't look so good but got the love those blooms. Hope to see pictures of your soon. The cutting you sent me in the fall are doing GREAT! Hope to be posting pictures of them soon. (thanks again) Mary Jane, Just remember when you train your to eat mosquites...I want the frist CUTTING!!!ROFL We are out in the country, no trucks around here. Need to cross Brug with fly traps!?! Now that could be a money maker! LOL Do the have Jamacan Yellow? ((Hugs to all)) Dorothy...See MoreBunching and Curling of Plants- I am stumped!
Comments (6)*50L bags-much like Pro-Mix Jean001a, I appreciate your thoughts and the links! I work on a commercial seed breeding team. We have over 500 plants in 13 rows in that GH, and over 7 acres outside. We also have a few hundred plants in high tunnels outside that are just producing fruit. No fruit will be sold to anyone. This is all research material. The plants outside are sprayed, fumigated and 2,4-D is used on the farm. We also have an organic plot..haha No plants that are exposed to the elements show these symptoms. There are a few plants under the high tunnel that are beginning to show these symptoms. They are in the same potting mix as the GH plants. There are older plants (2-4 hands fruit set) in the GH that have just started to show these symptoms pictured. Herbicide damage is definitely what this looks like. I believe spray drift is a possibility, but there are peppers in the GH attached that are not showing herbicide damage. We have an independent plant scout that is stumped as well. He will be back in a couple days. I will give an update then, or if the symptoms disappear. In the meantime, more input is welcomed....See More- 10 years ago
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