sghoghunter
Senior Member
I'm planning on doing some spraying at the club. Mostly what I want is to do is kill the grass and scrub bushes growing on the sides of the roads and some gal berry bushes. What would be the ratio for these two?
ust watch out for volatilization if it's hot. You can wind up killing stuff you don't want to.
Wiped out most of my garden many years back. Not even the county agent was aware of the risk.
Respectfully disagree about volatility killing stuff, and agree about the lower temp the better. I've seen mature timber and all kinds of other nearby stuff killed by 2,4-D and triclopyr mixes volatilizing at hot temps.Volatility won't kill anything, temperature inversions will. If the cotton is phytogen the 24d won't curl it. If you are near cotton triclopyr would be the better choice as its more temp stable. The 24d would be better applied late in the afternoon in 85* or less weather.
We'll just have to agree to disagree, as I've seen it happen. And lawsuits over it. And fines/loss of pesticide license.24d amine cannot volatilize as a vapor, esters form vapors that tend to be the non salt forms reducing its efficacy and ability to be taken up by the plant, triclopyr depends on the salt formulation as some forms have a high enough vapor pressure to need 105* heat to volatilize. With that said drift or vapors won't be enough to kill a tree, it will cause the leaves to curl but that's not enough to cause fatal damage to the tree unless it was already on its way out. The leaf curl at low doses actually promotes growth. Mature timber definitely wouldn't be killed by vapors from the 2.
I'm talking about both. I have seen serious damage from volatility.Y'all are confusing drift and volatility, you won't end up with an insurance claim over volatility against a neighbor, if that was the case the mid south would have broken the insurance system by now with dicamba issues. Volitization doesn't cause enough damage to justify the court costs.