If you had
CT meeting SFI minimum standards, it would be sufficient to protect your roses.
Dormant oil will smother the Bacteria and
fungi. That’s essentially how it works. There is much data on the use of oils.
Use of dormant oils will likely smother the “good guys” as well We used
ultra light oils before we used CT. They worked very well, but CT offers much
more protection. As long as our soils temperature remain above 50F I will
continue with tea, just not as often. We are faced with highly chlorinated irrigation
water and these treatments seem to keep out numbers up. The Soil
Soup machine has never been in favor in my experience. Sell it quick and get a
machine with adequate testing. EPM, Bob o lator, or James Sotillo to name three great ones. They all sell
TESTED machines with verifiable results. Tom Jaszewski www.livesoil.com 702-595-7012 -----Original
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