Timeline for When is the critical period for blossom end rot in zucchinis / courgettes?
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| Jan 8, 2019 at 8:52 | comment | added | CoolKoon | Not necessarily. One or the other can be even "resonstituted" milk. But either way that's irrelevant because the paper above indicates that store-bought whole milk works as well. But to get back to the original question: it's not gonna help with blossom end rot at all. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 19:10 | comment | added | Graham Chiu | Whole milk and full cream milk, both pasteurised, are the same thing. And that is what we buy in our supermarkets. therealmilkco.nz/full-cream-milk | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 9:45 | comment | added | CoolKoon | Full cream pasteurized milk is definitely not what you can get in supermarkets. Whole milk is the closest you can get and skim milk is almost completely devoid of all the fat. The paper you've linked has used whole milk so that might work. But either way it definitely wouldn't affect blossom end rot at all. | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 7:10 | comment | added | Graham Chiu | Huh? Full cream pasteurised milk is the de facto standard milk. It only works with sunlight exposure so I think it's a waste of time to spray under the leaves, and it works best as prophylaxis according to studies. I used it in an attempt to treat. Big difference. opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/… I might give it another go this year though I normally don't drink milk. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 22:24 | comment | added | CoolKoon | Actually that paper looks really impressive indeed. However they've used "dilutions of full cream pasteurised bovine milk" i.e. definitely not the kind that you can buy in stores (a BIG difference). Then they admitted themselves that the results were much more spectacular when the treated leaves have received sunlight (that aided free radical formation) as well. But anyway, sulfur and copper have been proven to work against powdery mildew out in the fields too while milk didn't work even in your own experiment. Feel free to keep using it though. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 5:37 | comment | added | Graham Chiu | researchgate.net/publication/… electron spin resonance studies, not old wives data, show free radical production from the milk under sunlight which attacks fungi | |
| Dec 29, 2018 at 17:56 | history | answered | CoolKoon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |