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Seedfork said:I have never heard of the "Green Magic" treatment, any scientific studies to back up the claims the guy makes for it. Sounds like a snake oil salesman with a cure all solution. Any major daylily growers that actually recommends the product he claims they use? Why are they using 500 dollar a gal. products rotated with other expensive chemicals if the "Green Magic" stuff actually works?
I will be interested in knowing how it works in your garden. The frustrating thing is that two years ago I had a bad rust breakout on my daylilies so I sprayed and sprayed. If I had used sugar water at the start of 2014 I would have sworn sugar water killed rust, because I had no rust at all till very late in the fall on just a couple of plants. But nearly everyone in the area experienced the same thing! The weather has been so warm so far this year, I fear a really bad year for rust!

Just want to clarify that the folks using the $500 fungicide are NOT using Green Magic so far as I know.

All I can tell you is my own experience with it. I thought I'd try it and if it didn't work on daylilies I could use it to clean around the house so money wouldn't be wasted.

It is still to soon to tell if it will totally get rid of rust here although I've heard of a major producer having good luck with it. You'd have to talk to the product maker for names if available.

What it does here is dry the rust up. When I rub Kleenex on a leaf and get yellow rust spores, I spray with Green Magic and then check in a few days and the rust no longer rubs off. The plant tissue where the rust was does die and turn brown.. I just pull those leaves off. This stuff also seems to sort out leaf streak before it shows since after a spraying those streaked leaves will show when they didn't prior.

Some growers on Facebook daylily sites have used it and report good luck and have pictures to show. I'm still evaluating it. Thus far it seems to work as well as any other product that I could afford.