Re: Triazicide (Spraying)

George,
I agree with you...this is the first year that I have done late spraying 9pm or later.  However, there is something about doing this that seems to work better.  I am doing the best this year in insect control by far AND I have Bees again!  Lots of them!  I never used to have to fight over the female blossoms....I used to spray early  in the evening(8:30pm) or very early morning(5am) and really damaged the bees.  Anyways, I don't know the reason, but late spraying of Triazicide sure has been awesome.  (I don't even see the SVBs flying around me anymore, as I try to track them down and destory my plants to get to them! LoL....only seen 1-2 this year and that was before the Triazicide!
Hoping I'm not dreaming and things are working well...time will tell.
David Bhaskaran
Rochester, MN
Quick update - My son continues to whip me...his pumpkin is at 505lbs....I'm 250 lbs under that!   Go figure..he has the worse soil, doesn't weed or really take care of it...looks like a big mess...and yet...I am speechless....I think I am putting too much effort into my "lazy" pumpkins!  

In a message dated 8/2/02 7:05:39 AM Central Daylight Time, GBPUMPKIN@aol.com writes:


Gotta say I have never heard of it being good to spray at night or so it doesn't have time to dry before nightfall.  They taught me that the drying conditions must be good and if flowers are present spay in the early evening with time enough to dry before nightfall.  I spray fungicides in the morning many times as long as there is time to dry in the cool morning air.  Once a product is dry high temps will not hurt the plant if it is listed for it and it is not mixed with a product that causes photo toxicity.  I have also used this practice on my Orchard for 30 years.


George Brooks
North Tewksbury, MA USA
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