CONTROL OF BAGRAS (Eucalyptus deglupta) DAMPING-OFF BY FUNGICIDES

Selected fungicides were tested to control damp ing-off affecting bagras seedlings in the Central Nursery of the Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines (PICOP), Surigao del Sur, Philippines. The fungicides, at three concentrations each, were applie d once before seed sowing to control pre-emergence damping-off and applied again after germination to cont rol post-emergence damping-off. Ajax detergent (2g/l H2O), Benlate (0.5 g/1 H2O), Brassicol (1.5 gv'l H 2O), and Fungitox (1.0 g/1 H2O) provided the best level of control against the disease. Ajax detergent is the most practical among the best chemicals because it is cheap, locally available, not a heal th hazard, and less polluting.