FYI, One only needs a 10% bleach solution. It also takes 5 minutes to kill most pathogens using bleach. I am passing on this information not as someone that has shipped daylilies before (I haven't) but as someone that works in a medical lab. This is what we use in a laboratory to disinfect counters, instruments, etc. This 5 minutes can also be part of the air drying process - ie: when we disinfect counters, and instruments in the lab (we are talking disinfecting, not sterilization) we spray or wipe using a 10% bleach solution and allow it to air dry for 5 minutes. After that we can rinse or do whatever we need to do. soaking for 5 or more minutes would accomplish the same thing. Diluted bleach in the lab is only good for 24 hours. So if you are doing this process over several days, make it fresh each day ( at least bleach is relatively inexpensive)
Also, bleach is a de-protienizer, and I use it in the lab to clean instruments. Will it affect the plants by soaking too long? I don't know. But that is why criminals (think CSI, NCIS & Criminal Minds tv shows and their comments about "I smell bleach") use it.
This is just a warning to keep my friends here away from the: "If a little bit is good, a lot might be better" train of thought.
I also do not know if it is better to dip,then go directly into a fungicide - does it react with the fungicide? Perhaps it is better to bleach dip, dry, fungicide dip..... Those are questions that I would hope the answers would be on the bottle of fungicide, available on the company website, or from scientists that perhaps may be lurking here, or those with experience that I lack. I would hate for the two things to 'cancel each other out'
That is why this forum is so informative - this stuff is daylily shipping 101 as Shirley says. And thanks for the info, I am sure that someday I WILL ship some daylilies and will refer back to this thread. ~Jan
