Here's the funny thing, I'll try to get a picture of them - we're getting nuked today - I can't afford to take any more chances. The funny thing is that my hibernacula are all green ball-like nubs - leaves getting ready to emerge and they are clustered up tightly next to each other - there are 21 that I counted - I'm gonna have to wait to take a picture - they have moss growing around them- but not smothering them or on them for that matter and since I've cleaned all of the DEAD material from last season around them, all you see is GREEN with a few tiny white areas - and yes, I have not mastered the fine art of the upclose photo, I do believe given the big guns (benomyl and protection all the way around) will halt it - I've grown long enough to find out what's savable and what isn't -I'm not trying to sound arrogant, really. I've talked to some professional growers in the NorCal valley, and they have said that S. rubra and it's group are prone to die off from fugus in the winter time, and with no prior problems - I've got S. rubra subsp. rubra, S. rubra subsp. jonesii and S. rubra subsp. wherryi in sizeable clunps and last year for no reason, no warning I lost the whole strand of S. rubra subsp. jonesii, where the S. rubra subsp. rubra in the tub next to them were fine. I've replaced them since, but this particular plant does (hopefully) look saveable..the growths on there are firm and retaining their color, not getting mushy and turning pale green-yellow...I'm not saying it's in the bag, but I'm gonna try like hell to put it in there!
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I just found a lonely bottle of Physan 20 next to the benomyl. Now the dilema is which one to use! Honestly, I know physan is a GREAT greenhouse disenfectant and I know some use it as a anti fungal spray, but I personally have never used it in that capacity, whereas benomyl I have, but I was really trying to avoid any systemic usage, but sometimes.....