I wonder if I can ask you a question - do you think that the Royal Horticultural Society is correct when by advising that there is no control for Honey Fungus - Armillaria mellea?
This is what the RHS says on the control of Honey Fungus: "There are no chemicals available for control of honey fungus.
"If honey fungus is confirmed, the only effective remedy is to excavate and destroy, by burning or landfill, all of the infected root and stump material. This will destroy the food base on which the rhizomorphs feed and they are unable to live and grow in the soil when detached from infected material."
At the end of 2008, I did a little research on the subject and I concluded that Armillatox is still capable of controlling Honey Fungus - although under European legislation brought in on the classification of pesticides, the product cannot be advertised as a pesticide.
In a call to the Amrillatox office, I was told that the company were faced with costs of up to £3 million to apply for a pesticide license and decided that, as a small company, this would be prohibitive to them. Instead, it was decided that Armillatox should be reclassified as a garden cleaner/soap.
This is from my previous post on treating Honey Fungus: "A call to Armillatox soon put me on the right track. While it cannot be claimed as a Honey Fungus treatment, I am advised, that because it is exactly the same formulation as it was in the days when it was called a Honey Fungus treatment (in fact, Armillatox was invented for this purposes - hence the name), they can advise, that as a side effect of using the chemical as a soap based garden cleaner, Honey Fungus is treated."
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