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'It worked really well': Kerikeri orchard trials alternatives to Hi Cane (www.nzherald.co.nz)
submitted 3 months ago by FloofahNZ to c/newzealand
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We live next to two kiwi fruit orchards, and have just had messages saying they’ll be spraying Hi Cane soon. They do give us at least 24hr advanced notice. It’s potentially dangerous stuff, we will not go out of the house during any spray time.

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[–] Dave 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What do we know about the health effects of the new product?

[–] bevan 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

looks like Synchron is mostly amino acids and Siberio is decanol alkoxylate at least that is what they release publicly. alcohol alkoxylates are not too great for frogs: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11504342/

[–] Dave 1 points 3 months ago

Ah, so it's a less bad but not perfect option. I wondered.

[–] FloofahNZ 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s a good question. The health effects of the previous product have caused serious questions for a long while, so one might guess the new product has been developed to cause far less issues in side effects, yet still be effective in its action.

[–] Dave 1 points 3 months ago

Yes, it sounds like it's not as bad as Hi Cane but might just be a less bad option rather than being 100% OK.