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  • From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] pruning determinate tomatoes
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:06:22 -0600

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:58:41PM -0600, William H Shoemaker wrote:
> I?ve grown Celebrity lots of times. I?ve grown them pruned and unpruned.
> I?ve
> not seen anything like what you described, UNLESS they have been exposed to
> herbicide drift. It sounds like 2,4-D drift to me. Often, the drift is
> volatiles from an application somewhere nearby, floating on air movement to
> your site, sometimes more than a mile away. Tomatoes are very sensitive to
> it
> and the results are similar to your description. 2,4-D is in many turf
> herbicides, agronomic herbicides and roadway or right-of-way herbicides. You
> may want to consider whether that happened and where it may have come from.

You should distinguish between formulations of 24D. "Ester" is the
dangerous formulation. In still conditions, I many times use 24D Amine
between tomato rows with no ill effects. In light wind, I find around
100' up wind and just a few feet down wind is safe enough.

I fear inaccuracy will encourage the banning of amine along with ester.
I hear many reports along the line: "They are going to ban the use of
24D within miles of a fruit or vegetable crop because of the drift
hazard".

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