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Old 03-07-2010, 04:15 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Recommendation for dilution of selective herbicide chems


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"Nelly Wensdow" wrote in message
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I want to use up this old bottle of Spectracide's Weed Stop for Lawns, but
unfortunately the label is all kinds of gone. And that's beside the fact
that I really don't want to just spray it all the hell over the lawn, I'd
rather just spot-treat these horrible thistles that're just about
everywhere. Anything left over's going onto the dandelions. I don't want
to be bothered with sending it to the local Clean Sweep crew, which would
cost me more in gasoline to get there & back than it probably did to buy
the stupid thing.

This is the kind of product that gets hooked up to the end of a garden
faucet.

It contains, roughly :
2,4D 7.6%
Mecoprop-p, 2.7%
dicamba, 0.71%
sulfentrazone, 0.18%

That's if I can believe what I *think* I can see through a 16x loupe
looking at the front label. Guess the company didn't particularly want
anyone to know what-all was in it?

It was here when I moved in a few years ago. In case it's way expired, is
there any more harm in spraying it onto the lawn than if it weren't?


When I spray thistles, I use about 0.5% solution of 2,4D. You could
dilute your product quite a bit. I don't know about the other chemicals
in your mix. I really doubt this stuff has "expired".


my memory must be bad. I think I used a 0.2% solution when spot spraying
thistles.