Re: Triazicide
I have applied Triazicide weekly as some of the top growers I know have. The
problem is the AM spraying, it's too hot plus the sun and spraying stress
the plant. I try to spray in eve as close to dark as possible. I've had no
vine borer problems at all. Had been plagued in the past. I've had no leaf
damage as a result of this product.
Don Chambers
----- Original Message -----
From: <STEVEN_M._GOLDSTEIN@HUD.GOV>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:07 PM
Subject: Triazicide
>
> I applied triazicide at 8 am this morning to my pumpkin plantss. (I
> had lost two plants last week to squash vine borers.)
>
> For good measure, after reading the directions, I also sprayed it on
> the broccoli, the zucchini, and the squash plants. (I had discovered
> additional infestation in the squash plants.)
>
> Around 11 am I looked out the window and saw all the leaves on the
> plants I had sprayed were severely drooping. Not knowing what else to
do,
> I quickly got the hose out and started spraying the plants to wash the
> triazicide off.
>
> I also called the 1-800 number while I was spraying to figure out
what
> had happened and how I could remedy it. The first representative said
(1)
> I had sprayed too much on the plants and (2) the product was not designed
> for these vegetables. He said the plants would all die and he would send
> me a claim form.
>
> I hung up and called back again. The second representative also said
> that all the plants were going to die but watering them was a good idea.
> He said also that the temperature was too high to spray the plants. He
> also offered to send me a claims form.
>
> I asked to talk to his supervisor. She said that the plants were
not
> going to die. But that it was probably too warm at 8 am this morning to
> spray. (It was about 75 then and was around 90 by 11 am). And the
plants
> went into shock by being sprayed when it was too warm.
>
> She also said that I did not spray too much (1 tablespoon for a
gallon
> of water and then applied in a spray bottle.) And that hosing down the
> plants was the right idea since very little had been absorbed by the
plants
> in three hours.
>
> I am now at work and I have no idea what the garden now looks like.
> I'll find out this evening.
>
> Has anyone else had this experience? What went wrong? Was it really
> too hot at 8 am to spray? Should I try it again if it ever gets cooler
> here ?
>
> Very unnerving to see everything in the entire garden going down in
> flames at the same time.
>
> Steve Goldstein
> Washington DC
>
>
>
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