More on the particle film technology and the team of scientists who are working on midwifing it:
http://afrsweb.usda.gov/mglenn.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Balliett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 01, 1904 1:36 AM Subject: Re: Kaolin spray > We took a lightning strike here yesterday. Didn't lost any computers > but I lost the main modem, so, please excuse my clumbsiness while I > work from the forkin' laptop. > > The kaolin spray needs to be sprayed initially before the leaves come > out. It's essential that all the bark be coated. You spray again as > the leaves emerge andagain when the tree is in full foliage. As Dave > has noted, you spray again after each rainstorm. I did not lose > coating from the bark during rain, for the most part, but the leaves > 'always' needed it. > > Gary Puterka was the USDA scientist at Kearneysville who 'invented' > the kaolin spray. He has presented at two of my BD conferences (and > probably would this year, ifthere is an interest by (potential) > attendess) I don't think the conference webpages are published > anywhere currently, but they did containe links to papers Mr. Puterka > had published. > > Try a search on "Puterka" and 'clay." (Surround and even the > admission of kaolin instead of 'natural clay' are relativelyl new > events and not necessarily mentioned in the early papers) If anyone > finds Puterka's papers, please post the link here. > > -Allan >
