Killing Liverwort On Greenhouse Floors

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Killing liverwort on greenhouse floors.

Hutches can very quickly get dirty. A common example is marchantia which is often topped with umbrella like sexual organs. Excellent liverwort control but injured autumn fern hosta russian sage liriope. Higher concentrations of this acid 10 to 20 percent found in retail products may retard the growth of some annual weeds and will indeed kill the foliage of perennial weeds such as canada thistle but without killing the roots.

One species of marchantia is a common greenhouse weed but others such as the one pictured occur naturally in moist environments in the pacific northwest. Light and temperature so abundant throughout the greenhouse industry are ideal for algae growth. Liverworts usually have a green flattened plate like body and no leaves. Significant work has been conducted on liverwort.

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My experience is that roundup provides poor liverwort control which of course can only be used on nursery floors and not in containers. Marchantia a thalloid liverwort with umbrella like female structures lower left and gemmae cups center which produce asexual reproductive bodies. When this environment is coupled with excess nutrients. A green film or powdery deposit is typical of algae on greenhouse glazing.

Algae build up and years under the hot sun can make your normally transparent greenhouse opaque and filthy. Moss that grows on glazing bars and on the surface of compost is usually cushion like. Including green shield physan 20 and triathlon that can be used on floors walls benches tools pots and flats as disinfectants. Both pests thrive in the low uv light high humidity and high fertility conditions associated with most greenhouses and nurseries.

R abbit guinea pig etc. Thereby resulting in regeneration. The flat growth of liverwort and moss results in a thick mat covering potting medium surfaces walkways and floors under benches.