Use this REAL science to control Mosaic Virus

[elftribe]

Time for my 2 cents...

Pay attention to your disinfectant exposure time. Each product takes a different amount of time to denature the virus. Just because you think you cleaned it (even twice) does not mean you actually disinfected it. IMO soap and hot water must be used first..... then disinfect. Physan 20 IS inhibited in the presence of soapy residue. Quaternaries require lots of time exposure and are very effective when used correctly. SOAK IT!


Hearsay will keep you infected, there is no single magic bullet. You've got to have a system and you've got to follow it religiously.

Surprising Results from a Search for Effective Disinfectants for Tobacco mosaic virus–Contaminated Tools:

http://ddr.nal.usda.gov/bitstream/10113/42851/1/IND44357650.pdf

 

[elftribe]

Where in your en-viron-ment could it be coming from

Where in your en-viron-ment could it be coming from

.... Not just from smoking


Tmv being considered as biocontrol of Tropical Soda Apple by University of Florida.

....In our search for a biological control agent for tropical soda apple we discovered that Tobacco mild green mosaic virus (TMGMV, previously called Tobacco mosaic virus, strain U2 [TMV U2]), causes a systemic, hypersensitive response in TSA plants that culminates in complete wilting of the plants.
http://plantpath.ifas.ufl.edu/people/faculty/charudattan/biocontrol/CurrentResearch/TSA.htm



http://www.freshfromflorida.com/pi/tsa/images/tsa.virusresearch.pdf


Effects of Selected Herbicides on the Efficacy of Tobacco Mild Green Mosaic Virus to Control Tropical Soda Apple (Solanum Viarum)
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1614/WS-07-083.1

 

[elftribe]

Do you really know where that Bag dirt came from before it went into the bag?

Do you really know where that Bag dirt came from before it went into the bag?

Really, where do they get all that dirt and what has been grown in that dirt recently? Do "they" scrape it off of fields that won't grow crops, put some chems in it and then bag it for you? TMV lasts in bio matter for a long time (50 years). Do you know where your dirt has been in the last 5 years? 2 years? 6 months?


Using steam to bring the temperature of the bag or MG dirt to a temperature of 185 degrees for a couple of hours will denature tmv and eradicate fungus gnat eggs.

 

[elftribe]

How and why does Aspirin work? Is it a Cure?

How and why does Aspirin work? Is it a Cure?

If you know what acetylsalicylic acid does to the cell then you'll know how to use it.


Salicylic Acid Has Cell-Specific Effects on Tobacco mosaic virus Replication and Cell-to-Cell Movement.
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/128/2/552.full

TMV replication was strongly -inhibited- in mesophyll protoplasts isolated from SA-treated nontransgenic tobacco plants. Therefore, it appears that SA has distinct cell type-specific effects on virus replication and movement in the mesophyll and epidermal cell layers, respectively. Thus, SA can have fundamentally different effects on the same pathogen in different cell types.

CONCLUSION

In summary, in the leaf mesophyll cells of salicylic acid (SA)-treated plants the replication of TMV is greatly *decreased*. In contrast, SA does not appear to significantly decrease TMV replication in initially inoculated epidermal cells. Instead,** it induces -resistance- to movement between the epidermal cells.*** However, inhibition of movement between epidermal cells was not because of a SA-induced reduction in the size exclusion limit (SEL) of epidermal cell plasmodesmata (PD), nor was it because of inhibition of the TMV movement protein (MP) plasmodesmal gating function by SA. The wider significance of these results is that they show that SA, rather than having a uniform effect on pathogen resistance throughout all the cells and tissues of a plant, can have profoundly different effects on the same pathogen in different cell types. We conclude from this that cell and tissue development exerts a powerful influence over the “design” of the defensive signaling pathways and the resistance mechanisms that they trigger.



Acetylsalicylic Acid
SOLUBILITY IN WATER 1g/100g(100ml) water @ 37C
(decomposes in hot water)

 

[GOOROO]

okie dokie

 

[Sam the Caveman]

I've been using asprin on my troubled plants for a while now, it works wonderfully for me and many others

 

[elftribe]

Sam, I have too but only after chasing too many time wasting myths. I hung on to the links to one day share the info that finally convinced and really helped me understand. The reading looks hard but all you need is the gist. Aspirin has it strengths but knowing how to Disinfect is power.

 

[slowandeasy]

Are you using Physan 20? What is your disinfecting method?