I'm usually not true to one paticular product/brand name. I stumbled on Cide Kick II surfactant. I haven't used it in anything but a spot sprayer, on woody plants. It seems to amplify the killing power of whatever herbecide you are using. Evidently it helps penetrate the leaf, and bark. I have a species or two, that I have fought like the plague for a long time. I kill them just to spray them again the next year. I've only used this stuff, this summer, but it looks promising. The honey locust I've sprayed with it the stems are dead, and will snap if you try to break them. The stems of honey locust I sprayed before I started using this stuff are still rubbery. Pretty sure they are going to make an appearance next spring. It's pretty cheap to for something that works good. I will add, it does seem to make broad leaf herbecides kill grass. It doesn't reall kill grass to the ground, but it looks dead. It will come back from the base pretty quickly. It's like you left a board laying for a couple of weeks, and then moved it. It doesn't bother me that does it, because if these honey locust become a non issue, I'll gladly kill a little grass to get the job done. Just thought I would share a product that does, what it says it will do.
Cide kick II Surfactant
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greybeard
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This sounds promising BF--it's advertised to be able to break down waxy coatings on weeds and woody plant and it may be the ticket for plants like green briar, which usually have to be killed by spot spraying with a herbicide diesel mix--may even help with saw palmetto and yaupon which I still have a lot of..
http://www.sepro.com/documents/CideKick_Label.pdf
highgrit
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Bigfoot":1eehfr83 said:
I use a product called Traction as a surfactant. And my results are similar to yours Bigfoot, especially the grass killing part.
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Bigfoot
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I've never tank mixed it, just spot sprayed with it. i wish I had found it a long time ago. I'd get some honey locust that would come back, so I'd add more remedy to my sprayer the next year. Then I'd have it still come back, so I thought I killed it to quick, burnt the leaves off before it was dead. Then I'd use less remedy the next year. These I've sprayed with it might come back idk. I know you can snap the branches easy, and the ones I didn't use it on are like rubber.
I'm having good results with Lemon Freshened Joy vs Dawn or Palmolive.
I'll give this other product a try next year though.
Bigfoot":th9ftgdk said:
No, I said I would try your product even though I've been having great results my way.
Bigfoot":15av6nof said:
You must not live near a Costco.
fenceman
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There s certainly not enough difference in price to warrant not using the correct product. :2cents:
And I contend there's not enough difference in performance to worry about.
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TexasBred
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I prefer the Dawn. And it's convenient...right there in the kitchen.TennesseeTuxedo":11it0w09 said:
fenceman
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All opinions respected, using a proper surfactant, just the lack of foam up when filling the tank , is worth the difference.
fenceman":2dzbvkv1 said:
Valid point.
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Bigfoot
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It's probably no big deal either way, spraying weeds in pasture. May not even have any affect at all idk. When I'm fighting ticks, chiggers, 100 degree heat, and 90% humidity to spray a thorn tree, that I've sprayed 3 years in a row, I'm not going to have it all riding on dish soap. I'm convinced this stuff works.
littletom
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Add crop oil to a spot sprayer you will also like the results
