On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:32:13 -0500, zxcvbob
wrote:

TomYoung wrote:
Hi all:

Three years ago I bought the Bayer Season Long Grub Control. Product
comes in a "hose end sprayer" bottle ready to attach to your hose.
Only thing is, after the first year the female hose end attachment
point on the bottle began popping off when the water started, rendering
the sprayer useless.

I have a lot of this product left, and the 32 oz bottle was darned
expensive. I'd like to just pour the bottle contents into a regular
hose-end spayer, but I don't know the proper dilution to select.
There's nothing on the bottle and Bayer refuses to say.

Anybody know what a proper dilution ratio for this product might be?



The bottle should say what strength the product is in the bottle. For
example:

Active Ingredient:
Diazinon:[O,O-diethyl O-(2-isopropyl-6-methyl-4-pyrimidinyl)
phosphorothioate].............. 47.5%
Inert Ingredients*............ 52.5%
*contains xylene range aromatic solvent
Contains 4 lbs Diazinon per gallon
KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN

Find another bottle of the same chemical that's already diluted in a
ready-to-use sprayer, or a concentrate with directions how to mix it.
You can calculate the dilution ratio from that.

For a hose-on application, the dilution rate is not so critical anyway.

Also, the sprayer bottle might tell you how many square feet it covers.
You can figure out a guesstimate just from that info.

Best regards,
Bob

Diazinon is illegal and was phased off the market because of its
toxicity.