Advice

[Reedmace]

Hello,

 

Can anyone help with a query on rhodedendron control?

 

I've got a lot of old thick stem rhodedendron that I want to 'drill and drop'

 

The advice is 2ml herbicide per 10cm stem.

 

The product label suggests using a spot gun with solid stream nozzle.

 

I've just passed PA1 and PA6aw but

 

My question is what is a spot gun with solid stream nozzle? And where do I buy such a thing?

 

Any help gratefully received

 

Thanks all

[openspaceman]

Hello,

 

Can anyone help with a query on rhodedendron control?

 

I've got a lot of old thick stem rhodedendron that I want to 'drill and drop'

 

The advice is 2ml herbicide per 10cm stem.

 

The product label suggests using a spot gun with solid stream nozzle.

 

I've just passed PA1 and PA6aw but

 

My question is what is a spot gun with solid stream nozzle? And where do I buy such a thing?

 

Any help gratefully received

 

Thanks all

 

We used these

 

Drench Guns - James Country Supplies

 

30 years ago, nowadays it's a Stihl bt45 and (exorbitantly expensive) eco plugs for broadleaves in general.

[Reedmace]

Thanks for this

 

I'll have a look at the drench guns

 

Can't afford those plugs though for this scale

 

A

[openspaceman]

Thanks for this

 

I'll have a look at the drench guns

 

Can't afford those plugs though for this scale

 

A

 

They'll make your wrist ache, we used them for spot weeding mostly.

 

To kill trees standing we would frill girdle them with a hatchet and then squirt roundup in the frills, no point going deep as its the cambium that trans locates the chemical.

[ScottF]

Is it not better to wait until regrowth occurs and then spot treat the foliage at low pressure? Active growth=rapid uptake