hydrogen peroxide

[blt00123]

Hi!!!

my girl read on a forum that they use to treat pests with diluited 3% HYDROGEN PEROXIDE on orchids.


Is anybody here who had similar experience on CP?

Ciao

Andrea

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Well, I haven't heard of it used to treat pest, but it had been used to treat bacterial infections and bacterial rots.  Peroxide breaks down in sunlight into water and oxygen so its not going to harm the plants.  Use it straight from the bottle.  Provided it is the medicinal type you buy from the drug store that is already at 3%.  It kills bacteria, germs and some funguses.  Might be a good thing to add to Sarr bogs to add oxygen, but it might kill benefitial bacteria.  Might be something to experiment with.  Here is a link to the discution about it on the orchid source.
peroxide thread at The Orchid Source.

 

[Alvin Meister]

Isn't hydrogen peroxide (contact lens solution) highly alkaline?

I'd just use proper garden chemicals.

 

[blt00123]

A concentrated (35%) hydrogen peroxide solution has a pH of approximately 3.5

more or less pH is between 2.5 - 5

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

So then that might be a good thing to try on the plants if its acidic.  Hmm I feel an experiment coming. Using 3% peroxide.

I will give it a shot and compare growth to two similar pots if capensis typicals.  Just need to get through work tonight and I will take some pictures.

 

[blt00123]

Quote[/b] (JB_OrchidGuy @ July 04 2006,8:18)]So then that might be a good thing to try on the plants if its acidic.  Hmm I feel an experiment coming.  Using 3% peroxide.

I will give it a shot and compare growth to two similar pots if capensis typicals.  Just need to get through work tonight and I will take some pictures.

great!! a mad scientist is what we need!! >;-D

 

[elgecko]

I have had scale on some orchid I recieved in a trade.
The way to get rid of the scale is to use a 50/50 mix of water and rubbing alchol. I use a sprayer and spray the hole plant. Repeat in about a week.
This has worked for me and had no ill effect on the plants.

 

[glider14]

Elgecko: could this work on other pests such as mites?
Alex

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Hmmmm That might be worth a try too. The alcohol and water. Can alsy try some neam oil or insectacidal soap. Mites are nasty little things. Just do not use Merit or the Bear advanced rose and flower spray that contains merit for mites. I hear its like viagra to them.

 

[chloroplast]

I've found a 1:1 water:isopropanol solution works well to kill aphids, scale, mealy bug, and mites on nepenthes. I haven't used it on any other genera of CPs.

 

[nepenthes_ak]

soaps a sin! Not good for carnivorous plants!

 

[MrAga73]

Hey!
Nice and interesting this topic.
Any person that has a garden and some plants for making some experiments, please do it and let know how the plants reacts to this!
Nice!
So..we are talking about to mix hydrogen peroxide 3% with some demineralized water or just so concentrated?
Bye!

Mr_Aga
Milan - ITALY

 

[nepenthes_ak]

I might try this and find out how long it takes to Break down. any sudgestions on testing it?

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

Mr Aga striaght from the bottle. The stuff for cuts and scrapes is only 3% and should do no harm to plants. It breaks down into water and oxygen rather quickly. Orchid people use it to sterilize seeds by putting the seed n it and leaving it ovright in the sun or bright light. By morning the seeds are in pure water. I would think the oxygen at the roots of the plant would do some good. I will try on some extra dews of similar size later this week after work.

 

[nepenthes_ak]

sounds like you shouldnt need to test it and it would benifit the plants.

I will see how it affects Sarr's starting with S. purpurea! I better have insurance!

 

[JB_OrchidGuy]

I agree, but testing is still in order. Untill it is confirmed a benefit only try it on plants you have spares of. Unless you don;t mine an accidnet to an only plant.

 

[blt00123]

Quote[/b] (JB_OrchidGuy @ July 05 2006,1:26)]I agree, but testing is still in order.  Untill it is confirmed a benefit only try it on plants you have spares of.  Unless you don;t mine an accidnet to an only plant.

Hi everyone!!!

any news/update about this new experiment??

 

[Jfk9]

Hi everyone!!!

any news/update about this new experiment??

Just to add to this years later in case someone else is searching for this info and comes across this thread, I just doused a Nepenthes Hirsuta seedling and a Nepenthes Ventrata that had some visable mold on it with 3 percent hydrogen peroxide. I covered the main stem and leaves and put enough to ensure it got directly to the roots. I'll add some pictures and will update in a week or if/when I notice a change. Luckily I have a control Ventrata that I bought on the same day as the one I just doused, so we have two clones of the same age and aprx size as eachother to compare.

The first one is the control and the second (with foam on the pitcher) is the test subject. I wish I could try this with a much bigger sample size, but I don't make a habit of buying more than two of the same plant, and the other plants I have doubles of I'm not willing to risk, so... Better than nothing I guess?

 

[Blackfeather666]

Thanks for doing the tests.

 

[AlainCh2]

Any result you can share ?

Just to add to this years later in case someone else is searching for this info and comes across this thread, I just doused a Nepenthes Hirsuta seedling and a Nepenthes Ventrata that had some visable mold on it with 3 percent hydrogen peroxide. I covered the main stem and leaves and put enough to ensure it got directly to the roots. I'll add some pictures and will update in a week or if/when I notice a change.