| A fungicide wettable powder
should be used to dress freshly cut plant parts. This provides a barrier
to infection until the orchid heals itself. An inexpensive product such
as Captan, Ferbam or Zineb can be made into a paste about the consistency
of heavy cream and dabbed onto the cut part using disposable cotton swabs. Some growers prefer to just dab a little of the powder onto freshly cut orchid tissue.
Fungicide can also be mixed in a quart hand sprayer according to label
instructions and used for spraying seedlings or plants that have been bruised
during unpotting. 
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