Raspberries - Established Planting: Non-Selective Herbicides and Tank Mix Options


Pub 75: Guide to Weed Control > Berry Crops > Raspberries - Established Planting: Non-Selective Herbicides and Tank Mix Options

Excerpt from 2010-2011 Chapter 14, Publication 75, Guide to Weed Control, Order this publication

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  1. Gramoxone
  2. Gramoxone + Princep Nine-T
  3. Ignite
  4. Cane and Bush Berries Herbicide Ratings:
    from Tree Fruit Herbicide Rating Tables (Table 15-1) (PDF 110k)
  5. Related Links

 


Gramoxone
Trade Name
Active Ingredient paraquat
Formulation 200 g/L
Rate per hectare (active) 1.1 kg/ha
Rate per hectare (product) 5.5 L/ha
Rate per acre (product) 2.2 L/ac

Precautions (For more information, see Chapter 4. Herbicides Used in Ontario, page 23 and Chapter 5. Notes on Adjuvants, page 69).

  • New and established plantings.
  • Apply in 1,000 L/ha water (400 L/ac).
  • For spot spraying, apply 55mL GRAMOXONE/10L water sprayed to wet weed foliage.
  • Direct spray at base of canes in the spring before new shoots emerge.

 


Gramoxone + Princep Nine-T
Trade Name
Active Ingredient
paraquat
+ simazine
Formulation
200 g/L
90 WG
Rate per hectare (active)
1 kg/ha
1.8 - 2.25 kg/ha
Rate per hectare (product)
5 L/ha
2 - 2.5 kg/ha
Rate per acre (product)
2 L/ac
0.8 - 1 kg/ac

Precautions (For more information, see Chapter 4. Herbicides Used in Ontario, page 23 and Chapter 5. Notes on Adjuvants, page 69).

  • Established plantings ONLY.
  • For emerged weeds with residual control of germinating weeds.
  • Apply as a directed spray to established plantings.
  • Do NOT spray young raspberry shoots.
  • Use 1,000 L/ha water (400 L/ac) to wet weed foliage.
  • Use lower rates for coarse, sandy soil.
  • Use higher rates for clay or higher organic matter soil.

 


Ignite
Trade Name
Active Ingredient glufosinate ammonium
Formulation 150 g/L
Rate per hectare (active) 1 kg/ha
Rate per hectare (product) 6.67 L/ha
Rate per acre (product) 2.7 L/ac

Precautions (For more information, see Chapter 4. Herbicides Used in Ontario, page 23 and Chapter 5. Notes on Adjuvants, page 69).

  • Established plantings ONLY.
  • For use in the production year of raspberries grown in the biennial production system, or in a planting that will be removed after harvest.
  • Do NOT apply to immature and weak plantings.
  • Apply when shoots are 10-20 cm tall to suppress the emerged flush of primocanes, and control any weeds emerged at time of treatment.
  • Apply in a minimum of 330 L water/ha (132 L/ac).
  • Avoid drift onto green tissue of floricanes.

 


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Author: OMAFRA Staff
Creation Date: 25 November 2002
Last Reviewed: 08 June 2010