I'm annoyed.
We are expecting a ton of rain over the next 2 days. It's been 3 weeks since I've sprayed my fruit & roses with Bonide Fruit Tree spray (the Captan version).
I typically alternate spraying between the Captan and Bordeaux Mix. The recommendation is every 2 weeks... And since we've had so much dang rain this spring, I'm rather anxious about falling behind on the spraying... I've already had my peach trees drop most of their fruit and what's left is showing signs of gummiosis. Roses are major battling black spot and apples & grapes have a few rust spots here and there already.
So here's why I'm annoyed... I bought some Bonide Copper Fungicide hoping it would be a faster application than mixing up Bordeaux Mix which takes over 24 hours (you have to dissolve the hydrated lime in the water first which is a bit time consuming). Well... I somehow missed the miniscule print in the instructions that state "apply at least 12 hrs before rain" and "reapply after rain." I'm annoyed because Bordeaux Mix (copper sulfate and hydrated lime) will not wash away from rain so I WRONGLY assumed that Copper Fungicide would be similarly rain-hardy.
Now I'm a couple of hours before rain is coming and unable to apply any fungicide that will stick. Guess I'll have to do it AFTER the rain in a couple of days. My own fault but still...
Harumphhhh......
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