Hello Brian Lenscher, it's February 19th, 2012. I'm out at the house and we've had a couple warm days. I think got up into the 60s a couple days ago and as you can see on this nectarine tree the buds have really started to get pretty big. So it's a good time to start thinking about fungicides. Most fungicides are preventative so they have to be applied before the fungus has a chance to take hold in order to be effective. One fungicide that I really like is called Bordeaux mixture. It's made from two different chemicals. The first is hydrated lime. I've got them find it in these big containers and something is copper sulfate which has a really nice blue color to it. The way I make my solution is I take one pound of hydrated lime and I put it into one gallon of water, and a pound copper sulfate into another gallon container filled in both up with water. You can see here the hydrated lime will eventually settle out. There's a little bit of a separation there. So it's all at the bottom so you do have to give it a good shake to get it back into the solution. Now once you have these two things just get a sprayer, I don't like this one, and I use two cups of hydrated or two cups of copper sulfate I should say. Copper sulfate solution. Pour it in. You can use two cups of the hydrated lime solution. Pour it in. This is a gallon sprayer. I will fill it up with one gallon of water. This will cause you to be a 10-10-100 solution of Bordeaux mixture. It's pretty good for a dormant spray at least what I found. And like I said before it's considered organic, one problem I've noticed with it is that it does leave a bit of a residue in your sprayer. So be sure to rinse out your sprayer after you're done or otherwise you're going to end up with a very clogged sprayer. And it's probably easy just to replace it after I get it clogged. This particular one I think I got for less than five dollars. So huge loss of the sprayer gets destroyed but you know it's nice to be able to reuse them if you can. So there you go. Nice Bordeaux mixture. It's a good fungicide. Be sure to apply the fungicide before the fungal infection hits. Most fungicides are preventative. So there you go. Nice organic fungicide. Very easy to make.