Crazy story here, but I have a Scentsy Warmer and wanted to stop paying bank for those scented bars to melt in there, so I read that Scentsy uses only the best scented oils in it's wax.  Hello?  I can buy scented oils... so I go looking.......

Clove Oil for Mould:

Clove Oil is commonly used for cleaning mould. It inhibits mould by attacking and killing the spores.

Directions:

1.The surface should be cleaned with a solution of vinegar and bicarbonate soda. (suggestion : 4 litres of hot water, 1 table spoon sodium bicarbonate plus half a cup of vinegar).

2.Prepare a solution of Clove oil by mixing 1 teaspoon of Primoil Clove oil with 1 litre of water.

3.Spray solution of clove oil onto the cleaned area.

You'll need to shake that clove oil/water mixture frequently or the oil will be on top and all you'll spray is water from the bottom.  Better would be to add an emulsifier but I can't tell you how that would affect the mold killing properties.

Skip the wax, go with

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=electric+oil+warmer

You can get them with or without lights.

Well, my big fat trunk that I rooted the other day started showing little white specks of mold, so I just used regular toilet paper dried and dried it off, I waited an hour and wiped again with another clean dry paper.. it has been 2 days now and no mold return - seems that moist is what makes it work for mold...anything to disturb that growth from the start is better. the problem with cuttings is to wash it and put it back in same zip lock bag or same matter it was (moss or whatever)... seems like onces cleaned, needs new air and new bag.  

Suzi AND Bob,
Good info. Good advise. 
thx
mgg

Ground cinnamon (3-4 Tsp) in a pint of rubbing alcohol works, too. Let it sit overnight before use. And bugs hate the stuff. Just make sure you strain out the cinnamon before spraying or you'll clog your nozzle.

I wonder if the figs grown from cuttings sprayed with cinnamon/clove will pick up some of those flavors.........  Hmmmmmmmm

Suzi

New variety - Black Pomander. Great fig for the holidays.

Maybe this has been discussed previously in another thread....if so, my apologies.

I looked up the ingredients of Physan 20 today.  Basically alkyl ammonium chlorides, similar to what you would find in disinfectant wipes except with fragrance, preservative, surfactant and a couple of other things.  I tried lemon smelling wipes on my pesky mold issue with a Green Ischia cutting.  I could deal with a cinnamon/clove flavored fig, but not a lemon fig. : (    Will see if this defeats the mold.

Clove oil is an herbicide so I would not use it around cuttings.

OK!  Got ya!  Thought it sounded pretty good, but back to Physan 20!

Suzi

[QUOTE=hoosierbanana]Clove oil is an herbicide so I would not use it around cuttings.[/QUOTE]

I had no clue.  My house smells like Christmas because of my scentsy warmer with the clove/cinnamon, and for all the organic growers out there, clove oil sounded really like a plan, but be careful.  Maybe it's the %? 

Stay away from Round up!  But use it on weeds!!  Next to Physan 20, Round-up is my go to!!  And now the rodenator!

suzi

i thought only good clover is dead clover.. and clover cig.

Nothing has worked for me so far, to inhibit mold, but I recently read that people with dandruff might be suffering from malasezia, which is a yeast.  I'm familiar with that yeast from my years working at a vet hospital and it's usuall the yeast that dogs and cats get in their ears.  Very itchy and miserable for them.  I never thought about people being able to get that particular yeast, but we can.

The article said to use mineral oil, food grade, for an oil treatment for your scalp because yeast can't feed on it like they can on olive, or other vegetable oils.  Thought that was interesting, so I'm going to rub on some mineral oil and see if that helps with mold.  The article also said the ingredients in Selsun Blue would keep the yeast from flourishing, after the oil treatment.

noss

I heard something like that too, so today I found this on Wikipedia:

Older literature cites the fungus Malassezia furfur (previously known as Pityrosporum ovale) as the cause of dandruff. While this species does occur naturally on the skin surface of both healthy people and those with dandruff, in 2007 it was discovered that the responsible agent is a scalp specific fungus, Malassezia globosa,^[11] that metabolizes triglycerides present in sebum by the expression of lipase, resulting in a lipid byproduct oleic acid (OA). During dandruff, the levels of Malassezia increase by 1.5 to 2 times its normal level.^[2] Penetration by OA of the top layer of the epidermis, the stratum corneum, results in an inflammatory response in susceptible persons which disturbs homeostasis and results in erratic cleavage of stratum corneum cells.^[8]