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I live in Puerto Rico (Tropical) and is there any SAFE way to put my VFT dormant? I think the lower here at day is the 70s and at night 60s in December,January,February and are the rainiest, I just read this (picture)

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Is there am area in your house with cooler temperatures?
Can you cool a terrarium using a swamp cooler or A/C?

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For VFTs, I drain off excess water from the pots, hit them with a sulphur based fungicide and place in zip lock bags and pop them in the fridge for 3-4 months. I occasionally check them (once a month) for fungus and hit with the fungicide if needed. Late winter around February/March I take them out hit them with sulphur based fungicide again and place in a south and west window until night time temps. regularly stay above freezing then slowly acclimate them to full outdoor Sun. I've been using this method for almost 10 years with no losses.

YaronR wrote:Is there am area in your house with cooler temperatures?
Can you cool a terrarium using a swamp cooler or A/C?

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Yes but not know :/ I don't have power thanks to the hurricane

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tommyr wrote:For VFTs, I drain off excess water from the pots, hit them with a sulphur based fungicide and place in zip lock bags and pop them in the fridge for 3-4 months. I occasionally check them (once a month) for fungus and hit with the fungicide if needed. Late winter around February/March I take them out hit them with sulphur based fungicide again and place in a south and west window until night time temps. regularly stay above freezing then slowly acclimate them to full outdoor Sun. I've been using this method for almost 10 years with no losses.

Thanks! I just need power to get this all done I think ill skip this year, and I've never done it so I need to see other peoples ideas too

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AndyTheTaco wrote:

tommyr wrote:For VFTs, I drain off excess water from the pots, hit them with a sulphur based fungicide and place in zip lock bags and pop them in the fridge for 3-4 months. I occasionally check them (once a month) for fungus and hit with the fungicide if needed. Late winter around February/March I take them out hit them with sulphur based fungicide again and place in a south and west window until night time temps. regularly stay above freezing then slowly acclimate them to full outdoor Sun. I've been using this method for almost 10 years with no losses.

Thanks! I just need power to get this all done I think ill skip this year, and I've never done it so I need to see other peoples ideas too

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Note that you can not uae sulphur and H2O2 Hydrogen peroxide together. They will cause a deadly reaction.

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YaronR wrote:

AndyTheTaco wrote:

tommyr wrote:For VFTs, I drain off excess water from the pots, hit them with a sulphur based fungicide and place in zip lock bags and pop them in the fridge for 3-4 months. I occasionally check them (once a month) for fungus and hit with the fungicide if needed. Late winter around February/March I take them out hit them with sulphur based fungicide again and place in a south and west window until night time temps. regularly stay above freezing then slowly acclimate them to full outdoor Sun. I've been using this method for almost 10 years with no losses.

Thanks! I just need power to get this all done I think ill skip this year, and I've never done it so I need to see other peoples ideas too

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Note that you can not uae sulphur and H2O2 Hydrogen peroxide together. They will cause a deadly reaction.

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Thanks! I only have chlorothalonil will that work?

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AndyTheTaco wrote:Thanks! I only have chlorothalonil will that work?

I would only use a sulphur based fungicide.

Yes chlorothalonil works great, its what I use (Daconil).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfVUrMaGjVs

Fieldofscreams wrote:Yes chlorothalonil works great, its what I use (Daconil).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfVUrMaGjVs

Thanks I have the same one!

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I had to put into a different sprayer and dilute it with distilled water so that it would spray. It's extremely thick.

Fieldofscreams wrote:I had to put into a different sprayer and dilute it with distilled water so that it would spray. It's extremely thick.

Yeah haded the same problem I did the qtip method and was nice, now I now I can mix it with water and is reverse osmosis good?

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