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Pennsylvania

Any of you guys try out that old milk myth just for the hell of it? We all know better than to use it on our competition plant, but did any of you try it on one of your backup plants?

5/3/2009 12:30:00 AM

Boise City, Oklahoma, USA

Drink the milk so you have good strong bones to stand all the work.

Milk don't work. Only other time you do milk is if you're doing Powdery Mildew spraying, 1 cup milk to 9 cups water...

5/3/2009 1:15:14 AM

Willamette Valley, Oregon

Hey, there's been real research on the use of milk to deter powdery mildew. If I try it, I might go with 1 cup dried milk dissolved in 1 gallon with water (that's ~20% reconsituted milk, which is what one study showed was a good rate); Sprayed weekly. The 10% rate that OkieGal suggests might work fine too. I haven't actually tried it though.

Bettiol W., Brenno Domingues Astiarraga and Alfredo José Barreto Luiz (1999) Effectiveness of cow's milk against zucchini squash powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea) in greenhouse conditions.Crop Protection 18(8):489-492.

Wagner Bettiol, Harllen S.A. Silva, and Ronielli C. Reis. 2008. Effectiveness of whey against zucchini squash and cucumber powdery mildew. Scientia Horticulturae
117(1): 82-84.

Francis J. Ferrandino, , and Victoria L. Smith 2007. The effect of milk-based foliar sprays on yield components of field pumpkins with powdery mildew. Crop Protection
26(4): 657-663

P. Crisp, T. J. Wicks, G. Troup and E. S. Scott. 2006.Mode of action of milk and whey in the control of grapevine powdery mildew. Australasian Plant Pathology, 2006, 35, 487–493

5/3/2009 1:30:25 AM

Wallingford,CT

http://www.team-pumpkin.org/ select milk on the left

5/3/2009 7:03:16 AM

Simi valley, ca

I did revive an almost gone sweet 100 tomato plant fully grown, It had powdery mildew & who knows what else, I sprayed every part & under leaves , full strength , probable 2%, did the spray a few times & it fully recovered & produced many !!

5/3/2009 3:31:09 PM

Simi valley, ca

O & the weird part , This plant was wasted , but then grew new leaves & was great !

5/3/2009 3:32:28 PM