I was once on the 'bandwagon' of hydrogen peroxide, which was based on reading about people's usage of it.
But I don't use it anymore - mainly because I ended up finding I already have methods (not involving H2O2) of treating relevant orchid issues (or pre-treating orchids) when needed, and secondly - it just 'seemed' that while application of 3% H2O2 didn't kill any of my orchids that came in the post --- it appeared (due to observations) that it affected the roots and/or plant in some way ----- as in it took a relatively long time - several months - of the plant doing nothing - suspended activity, before the roots and/or plant was able to get going again. It just appeared to me that H2O2 was holding something up --- with the plant, as if the roots or plant needed to recuperate from its effects.
Sometime - in the future- I will probably get around to doing a bunch more observations - comparison tests, as I haven't got any way to 'measure' what's going on at microscopic levels. Hopefully some sources or studies can be found to save us the time to look into this.
Also --- thirdly, I read that once a new bottle of H2O2 is opened ----- degradation of H2O2 begins to occur, creating another possible drawback.
I'm not opposed about the usage of some product, like H2O2 - as long as there's some good and proper evidence that supports it. I don't use it anymore though - not for the purpose of diluted sprays on orchids that is.
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