Larry,
Are you suggesting that it might work to dust plants with a fine coating
of cinnamon powder? Instead of making a tea and spraying it?
I understand that you are not implying that there may not be
consequences in some plants to this treatment. Leave me to work that
out for myself. I do my own thing and I take my chances (I will try it
first on a plant that is redundant). However, cinnamon is unlikely to
hurt _me_, and that matters a lot to me! Plus, quite frankly, it is
cheap enough to use even fairly good stuff from, say, Costco.
Incidentally, I have great respect for spices. I managed to cure my
husband, this spring, of chronic cellulitis in his ankles (and he is
allergic to almost all antibiotics) by using a strong tea of rosemary to
soak his feet for about 30 minutes a day (in addition to the fungicide
medicine that the doctor gave him). Before the rosemary, we were
contemplating possible amputation! It took a week, but it worked so
well even the doctor was impressed. We now use it as a first defense
when he is running into trouble. Takes quite a lot of rosemary, though!
Thank you for the great ideas!
Ilse
On 1/16/2011 2:34 PM, Larry Wallace wrote:
You are better off with the powders and letting the oils leach out
over time. Cinnamon bark oil (90+ % cinnamaldehyde) and 100 %
cinnamaldehyde have been tested in tissue culture. They tend to burn
the tissue and the effect is short lived as they evaporate.
There is a synergic effect between cinnamaldehyde and eugenol.
Cinnamon is better with cinnamon leaves, or cloves. Allspice oil is
50 to 80 % eugenol.
The spices themselves provide a timed release of their oils.
--
Larry Wallace
Cincinnati
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