Where to get lime sulfur

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Because a Japanese suicide cult decided to use cleaning products to realize their dream horticulturalists will be denied an effective product in use for over years. It is that simple. Professionals, like you Dr. Daniels, should collectively oppose the EPA when they do this sort of intrusive meddling rather than rolling over and scolding those who would seek solutions.

The lack of common sense is invariably at the government level, not at the interested individual level. It is neither complicated nor overly dangerous but surely take appropriate cautions.

I understand your frustration over the difficulty in obtaining lime sulfur products. That sentiment has been expressed many, many times by our readers, so you are certainly not alone there. One of my WSU job duties is to help people understand pesticide laws and regulations. Another duty is to provide EPA with data on pesticide use during their reviews. In the case of lime sulfur, EPA did not make their risk decision based on suicides. Their decision is based on irreversible eye damage risk, which is a physical characteristic of the active ingredient.

Users then make personal decisions on whether or not to follow those reminders based on the facts of the case. I wish the powers that be, including academics, would quit treating us like irresponsible children.

I understand your legal and liability duties, Dr. However, facts, science, human incompetence and politics all play a role in regulators creating regulations and academics making recommendations. These issues all have to be included — as a conscious decision — in order to sufficiently protect people and the environment. I like that definition because it also gets to the issue of fairness…in other words, not giving preferential treatment to one person from a group but not another from the same group.

The issue of fairness is a personal outlook as well as a professional one. So, politics, using this definition, should always be part of treating everybody equally. I agree there are competent, responsible people out there as well as incompetent and irresponsible people, as well as a spectrum of people in between those two extremes.

Hence, written recommendations have to apply to an entire group. The same is true in making regulations.

On the practical level — how would that be enforced? Lastly, one of the responsibilities of regulators, and of academics, is to evaluate the complete range of situations, not just the level of training or proficiency of all applicators.

Not all bad outcomes start from irresponsibility either — some of them come from accidents such as a hose bursting, a misstep on a ladder, or a hidden gopher hole next to the application site. Do we spend time making up possible scenarios so we can cover every conceivable situation?

No, we use reports of actual situations. Those are the facts. I mean, I get it. How hard is it to understand? Meanwhile, I have watched evolution happen in my own greenhouses with fungi that were not treated effectively. This means more products, with potentially bigger environmental concerns being used.

Very frustrating. Millions of people are at risk of getting in a car accident from driving. Driving should be banned. Chlorothalonil was found to be an important actor in the decline of the honey bee population, by making the bees more vulnerable to the gut parasite Nosema ceranae. Chlorothalonil is highly toxic to fish and aquatic invertebrates. Bayer has a crimes against humanity record a mile long.

Lime-sulfur is corrosive to the eyes and harmful if swallowed, inhaled, or absorbed through the skin. Appropriate precautions according to the label should be taken when applying lime-sulfur.

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Characteristics Organic Status :. Active Ingredient : Sulfur. Application Frequency : Multiple Application. Application Season : Fall. Application Season : Spring. Application Season : Summer.