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Is it safe to use milk powder in a system to combat powdery mildew?

Always been told you need to use "full cream" milk Faye...

Think possibly because the fat content helps it "stick" to the foliage

I'm fairly sure I saw someone say they used full cream milk powder to make their spray, check over at ALS

hmm i meant to ask about that. i got mildew fairly bad all of a sudden.

Id see ya doc for some penicillin dude...or a daily change of underwear and talcum powder is a good place to start

It's not that serious yet BK but thanks for your advice anyway.
It's not me it's for someone else. No problems with my systems.

...was for poor timmy and his crotch rot...

Yeah, any guesses as to what adding milk to an AP system will do?? Evidently it seems it might not be good for barra..

Someone rang today because his fish were dying. He had problems with mildew and had heard that milk treatment would help sort it out, so he mixed up 3 cups of powdered milk into 9 litres of water, and decided to add a sachet of dipel to it as well. He has a system the same as my original corrugated iron system, with big cucumber plants and 9 foot tomato bushes etc growing in it.. Anyway, he used a heavy duty squirter and squirted down the plants with the 9 litres of made up milk with dipel in it, with a lot of the liquid running off the plants and into the beds. Now his Barra have started dying and his water is looking off and cloudy. He only has rain water and doesn't want to use up too much on the system, and he has already done one partial water change, but the 25-30cm barra are still dying at a few each day.....

Be careful with too much milk around your system...

has milk got copper in it??
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Milk and Dipel ..... perhaps look for an interaction between them . Or a reaction with their combination and the AP water.
I guess the biggest hint too the culpret is " water off and cloudy"

Any idea how much he used???

Very small amounts of milk will make very large amounts of water look cloudy . So I guess that's explained.
Now , what did he mean but water seemed "OFF" ?

Off could refer to smell!

Milk and water allowed to sit out will become very nasty very quickly!!!!! He probably got himself a bit of a bacterial bloom there.

Hum, so milk might not be such a good thing to use around AP system for powdery mildew.

I've heard worm tea is good for powdery mildew too, perhaps that would be safer around AP, most of us already have a fair amount of worms and castings in the systems.

I think milk is just fine ,, but a SALL fine spray ,, not enough to run off the leaves and turn the water.
Shesh ,, copper is fine for fish ,, actually needed , but if thet get too much ,, DEAD.

Balance in all things , someone a lot smarter than me said that.

OOPS "SMALL fine spray"

Just on the subject of milk..... It's been suggested from some studies that there appears to be evidence that "modern" milk products, or at least one of the proteins in the milk we drink is directly related to a range of serious illnesses, including heart disease, Type 1 diabetes, autism and schizophrenia.

These health problems are linked to a tiny protein fragment that is formed when we digest A1 beta-casein, a milk protein produced by many cows in New Zealand, Australia and other western countries. Milk that contains A1 beta-casein is commonly known as A1 milk, whereas milk that does not is called A2.

Originally all milk was A2 until a mutation affecting some European cattle occurred some thousands of years ago.

Herds in much of Asia, Africa and parts of southern Europe remain naturally high in A2 cows. A2 milk from selected cows is now marketed in much of Australia, and in parts of the USA and New Zealand.


Obviously pushing their own product... http://www.a2milk.co.nz/news/bigbusiness.pdf

Reference ....

http://www.craigpotton.co.nz/products/p ... linthemilk

And the recent "Today Tonite" story...

http://www.a2australia.com.au/video-today-tonight.php

lol and im sure the story on today tonight wudda been based on what..."scientific evidence"????????????????????????????