anyone using a propane flamer?

16 years ago

i've been wanting one for awhile. Used mostly for weed control it seems but maybe it helps with pest and disease control too.

What am i trying to control? Just found some root mealy bugs-yuck. And a possible bacterial blight on some beans. Would be nice to heat sterilize the wire trellis in between crops.

Any advice?

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daislander
16 years ago
Ive been wanting one now to for a few years but cant thing of enough practical applications. In a normal garden I think people end up torching there plants. If you have a farm style very open garden mabey or a big weedy gravel driveway. Blasting cages is a good one! I usually go for a spray of bleachy stuff. Tiger torches used to be cheap now for some reason there like 190 bux.
mauirose
Original Author
16 years ago
If you have a ...big weedy gravel driveway.

Yep, got that ; )

Not sure what Tiger Torches are? the one i'm looking at is sold at Lowe's. Maybe called Dragon something?

Root mealy bugs-really yucky!
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forpityssake
16 years ago
I'd think the rental places would have them. I rent one whenever I need one for the fence row.

Maybe, you can check your rental places. I rented mine from Bil-Jax.

Unless your need is more than a couple days a year, I'd think renting one would be cheaper than buying one...maybe not.
bejay9_10
16 years ago
Can't imagine using one around growing plants, but perhaps torching the soil BEFORE planting might be of significance, especially if your compost doesn't get hot enough to kill mold spores, etc.

I use a propane torch to kill the weeds between paved stones, or to burn off old paint prior to re-painting, but around plants - that's a new idea for me.

Bejay
oregonwoodsmoke
16 years ago
It's hard work to use one, unless plants are completely dry, I always wonder how forest fires get started so easily when I can stand there blasting a plants with a flame thrower and it won't burn.

You can kill baby weeds just by heating them enough to wilt.

Big warning here: If that new no-spill propane bottle with the triangular knob is the law all over the country, the flamer does not work nearly as well with those as it did with the older style bottle. It's like the newer bottle doesn't have nearly as much pressure.

My barbecue doesn't work as well, either, with the new bottle.
sandhill_farms
16 years ago
oregonwoodsmoke wrote:

"Big warning here: If that new no-spill propane bottle with the triangular knob is the law all over the country, the flamer does not work nearly as well with those as it did with the older style bottle. It's like the newer bottle doesn't have nearly as much pressure.

My barbecue doesn't work as well, either, with the new bottle."

That newly designed bottle is just your government looking-out for you and protecting you because a few boneheads misused the old style bottle and got themselves hurt.

Actually the old style worked quite well and I wished the government would stop trying to protect all of us.