Cure for early blight.

Whwoz · July 23, 2019

Looking at this from a purely microbiological point of view, the use of the compost tea is aiming to supply enough fungal spores to out compete the EB spores. Never going to be enough to cure EB but would certainly slow down its rate of growth and establishment if used early enough. Don't know if you can buy preparations of the fungus Trichoderma over there, but if you can, it would be well worth following up with a good spray of that. If I had a problem with EB, and fortunately I don't here, I would look at the doing the following: prune, bleach spary to reduce infection where I cannot see any, then the compost tea and a Trichoderma spray.

Don't know enough about the aspirin effect to comment on.

July 23, 2019	#17
Whwoz Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 870	Looking at this from a purely microbiological point of view, the use of the compost tea is aiming to supply enough fungal spores to out compete the EB spores. Never going to be enough to cure EB but would certainly slow down its rate of growth and establishment if used early enough. Don't know if you can buy preparations of the fungus Trichoderma over there, but if you can, it would be well worth following up with a good spray of that. If I had a problem with EB, and fortunately I don't here, I would look at the doing the following: prune, bleach spary to reduce infection where I cannot see any, then the compost tea and a Trichoderma spray. Don't know enough about the aspirin effect to comment on.