bleach spray

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Originally Posted by jtjmartin

Just hit my tomatoes and squash with bleach . . . as I was rinsing the sprayer . . . it started to sprinkle. Guess I'm just out 7 ounces of bleach!

The rain doesn't matter because unlike fungicides the bleach has already done what it is going to do by the time you get your sprayer rinsed. It is not a preventive spray other than it kills back much of the disease on your plant at the time of spraying. It will not however keep any new diseases from showing up other than the fact that it kills the spread of the ones already there. Over the next day or so many diseased leaves will shrivel up from the bleach spray so you might want to remove them and spray the plants with a copper spray or Daconil depending on what diseases you are having a problem with.

Bill