Labelling of plant poisons

I don't think GREEN is an ideal packaging colour to use for ROUNDUP weedkiller (or any product that kills anything), the colour suggests rather the opposite.

A similar looking spray device containing DEFENDER Insect spray (for plants) also has an almost identical colour.

My stupidity off course, but tonight nearing sunset I decided to spray all weeds in an area prepared for paving. I finished the entire container, only to realise I sprayed the weeds with Insect Spray intented for the young Photinias...

It could have been the other way round and I might have killed all the Photinias (100 of them)!!! :((

Yes I should have looked closed, but accidents hide in small corners.

Perhaps better colour coding for such products would be appropriate. Might contact the manufacturers.

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Originally Posted by spruik

Perhaps better colour coding for such products would be appropriate. Might contact the manufacturers.

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I use Glysophate 360 comes in a yellow bottle, not green, and is exactly the same active ingredient and strenght as Roundup for 1/3 of the price.

Cheaper and different colour as well. :D


Peter.

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Originally Posted by Sturdee

I use Glysophate 360 comes in a yellow bottle, not green, and is exactly the same active ingredient and strenght as Roundup for 1/3 of the price.

Cheaper and different colour as well. :D


Peter.

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Actually, wife bought that also a few days ago. Need to mix it and use it in a spray container. Thought of using the Roundup container... (might make the same mistake?)

I remember a nasty story at TAFE years back about a particularly dangerous herbicide called Garlon. It is an S7 chemical, used for woody weeds such as blackberry and Gorse that roundup won't worry.

This stuff looks like a dark cola colour, some bright spark at a council decided to take a little bit out of a bottle and put it into a Coke bottle. To cut a long story short, a young bloke took a swig, which was his last- it ate through his guts from the inside out.

Good point about the roundup container, the amount of products around with green logos on them would make things confusing in the garden shed

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Originally Posted by spruik

. Need to mix it and use it in a spray container.

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True, but we have one sprayer for weedkiller (the pumpup type) which I use and a totally different type (battery operated) which my wife uses to spray fertiliser etc.

So different sprayers and different persons as well.:D

Peter.

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Originally Posted by Sturdee

True, but we have one sprayer for weedkiller (the pumpup type) which I use and a totally different type (battery operated) which my wife uses to spray fertiliser etc.

So different sprayers and different persons as well.:D

Peter.

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Good idea, will propose to wify. She nurtures, I kill... makes a lot of sense! :U

Gorse and blackberries we have plenty, every day we spray 400 litres of mixed Grazon, for the next few weeks (on another property). Wouldn't want to drink that either.

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Originally Posted by Sturdee

I use Glysophate 360 comes in a yellow bottle, not green, and is exactly the same active ingredient and strenght as Roundup for 1/3 of the price.

Cheaper and different colour as well. :D


Peter.

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You need to check the grams actime on the label Peter. Glyphosate 360 suggests that is 360 grams per litre active. "Roundup" can be 360, 450 or 590 grams per litre active

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Originally Posted by Planned LScape

I remember a nasty story at TAFE years back about a particularly dangerous herbicide called Garlon. It is an S7 chemical, used for woody weeds such as blackberry and Gorse that roundup won't worry.

This stuff looks like a dark cola colour, some bright spark at a council decided to take a little bit out of a bottle and put it into a Coke bottle. To cut a long story short, a young bloke took a swig, which was his last- it ate through his guts from the inside out.

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BS, Garlon is an S5 poison with an oral LD50 of >2,000mg per kilogram

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Originally Posted by Howdya do that

You need to check the grams actime on the label Peter. Glyphosate 360 suggests that is 360 grams per litre active. "Roundup" can be 360, 450 or 590 grams per litre active



BS, Garlon is an S5 poison with an oral LD50 of >2,000mg per kilogram

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i heard that story and but was with sprayseed which was/is a S7

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Originally Posted by Howdya do that

BS, Garlon is an S5 poison with an oral LD50 of >2,000mg per kilogram

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Not sure if it was BS mate, just adding a story that the ag guy at a chemical users course explained to us?

He also mentioned other stories with the same chemical, of a guy getting cancer through leaning over a chemical-soaked propagating table and it absorbing into his skin, and a farmer also absorbing it through clothing from spray drift on his tractor. Not sure if this was garlon or otherwise

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Originally Posted by bugsy

i heard that story and but was with sprayseed which was/is a S7

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And the young man wins a prize:D

Sprayseed can definitely be dangerous if used incorrectly.