[TheForge] OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

LOL...I heard to mix them with dilute milk but i like 
your version better Jerry.

Jerry Frost wrote:
> Oh yeah, one last thing. Alcohol will have zero effect on lichen except 
> maybe make it happier and grow better. Whatever you do do NOT let anyone 
> getting on the roof take a beer. The sure fire fast track method of 
> propogating lichen is to drop some in a blender with a boch beer dilute the 
> results 50/50 with water and spray it on whatever you want lichen on. 
> Decorative boulders and such being most common. Water it a couple times a 
> week or so and stand back, the sprayed area will have healthy fast growing 
> colonies of lichen established in days, weeks if you live in a DRY climate 
> but still.
> 
> So anywho, spraying your roof with alcohol and scrubbing with a brush will 
> only serve to spread the lichen everywhere the brush touches which is just 
> the opposite I believe you want.
> 
> Jer
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