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Tue 15 Jul, 2008 05:33 pm
I accidentally sprayed our wheeping cherry with a weed killer. Can this be saved? I have been spraying it off and on all day with water! Is there anything else that I can do. I thought I was using a bottle of "copper" spray to the leaves - my husband had a weed killer mixture mixed up in that bottle.
Thank you much.
nwhikergirl
I don't know, but I think it takes a whole lot of weed killer to kill a developed tree.
It you washed it off the leaves before it soaked in, that's good.
Don't trust me of course; I'll await more knowledgeable replies.
That sounds good. In addition to washing the leaves, avoid stressing it. In the summer, this usually just means keeping it watered, and a quick, cooling spray on the leaves. If it does look dead, give it till next spring to recover. It may fool you.
If it was something like Roundup, you have a chance if you water it off and hit it with some detergent in water within a few hours after spraying. If it was like Pqaraquat, or dicamba /24 D-that tree is probably toast. Both of those initiate an oidation process that the tree resperates itself to death.
Also, many sprays like Diuron , can kill from the root infiltration too.
Im not trying to be snotty but youve gotta pay way more attention, what if it were a pet watering can .Many of these herbicides, like roundup , Ally, or lasso, are often used as leaf hopper and moth pesticides also.
