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London, Ohio

ive been reading about people usuing this stuff called captain to fill cracks and tears in pumpkins and vines but i don't know what it is please fill me in . thanks.

12/4/2002 3:44:37 AM

Garden State Pumpkins

Captan is a powder fungicide....a must have in the arsenal of what ails a pumpkin...mixed with water as a paste to fix stem splits and pumpkin holes...early on seedling to stop dampening off...it is a serious chemical and care should be taken in use but if you do a site search you'll see many applications and pics of it in use...grow em big! Chuck

12/4/2002 4:45:39 AM

London, Ohio

is captain the name of it in the store or is it called something else. thanks for the info

12/4/2002 1:29:53 PM

ipswich, ma usa

Bonide is one company that produces Captain. The name of the chemical is captain, you will see that right on the their label.

John (5150)

12/4/2002 2:29:00 PM

Connecticut

I'm Not 100% sure but I believe the proper spelling is Captan

12/4/2002 2:56:16 PM

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Captan is the trade name and the common name for a type of fungicide. Years ago the patent expired. So it can be made from any number of chemical manufacturuers who pursue inexpensive off patent technology. The agriculture community would purchase Captan from any of the following manufacturers or their distributors: Drexel, UAP, MicroFlo, Helena, or Wilbur Ellis. None market retail.

Retail preperations would include Bonide & perhaps Ortho. I know Bonide & Ortho products are sold in nearly every retail garden center around here. I bought out all the old dusty Bonide Captan from the garden center up the road from here for less than wholesale cost so that they could make room for Christmas decorations.

For the record, there are many other better quality fungicides available today that are still patented & thus a little more expensive. These could take years to show up on the retail store shelves though.

Steve

12/4/2002 3:04:09 PM