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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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[–] 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.