Imagine today is the day scheduled for spraying pesticides in your fields. Just after completing the spraying, you notice it starts raining or the sprinkler is on. Now, what happens to all those chemicals that are sprayed? Do you think they still remain on the plant? No, most of the solution that you’ve sprayed runs off the leaf surface, reducing the coverage of the pesticide sprayed on the plants. This is where silicon-based spreaders act as superheroes in helping to optimise agrochemical’s spray retention when sprayed.
How could silicon-based spreaders optimise agrochemical’s spray retention during such situations?
Knowing Silicon-Based Spreaders
It’s simply about mixing your agrochemicals with the silicon-based non-ionic spreaders before spraying, and it will work regardless of rain or irrigation.
By mixing it, the solution gains three excellent properties: improved wetting, spreading, and penetration of chemicals.
The 3 excellent properties of Silicon-Based Spreaders
Improved wetting: Applying agrochemicals with spreaders reduces the surface tension of the sprayed chemical, allowing spray coverage to adsorb and wet the plant surface.
Spreading: Adding spreaders to the chemicals while spraying increases their ability to spread several times more than pure water. This property helps cover larger areas and adhere to the leaf surface.
Penetration of chemicals: The solution sprayed is absorbed by the leaf surface and enters the epidermis of the plant, prolonging the effect of the agrochemical sprayed.
Applicability of Silicon-Based Spreaders
Silicon-based non ionic spreaders are compatible with all the agrochemicals that are sprayed, be it herbicides, pesticides, foliar fertilizers or growth regulators. These spreaders help optimise coverage of these agrochemicals when applied.
Criyagen Super Spreader: A Silicon-Based Non Ionic Wetting and Spreading Agent
The usage of Criyagen Super Spreader is pretty simple: mix 0.5 ml in 1 litre, which is 100 ml of Super Spreader in 200 litres of spray solution, good to go for an acre of land.
Spraying Criyagen Super Spreader mixed solutions only has benefits for the plants. It enhances the efficiency of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, plant nutrients, plant hormones, and foliar fertilizers. Applying of the spreader prevents runoff the sprayed solution from the leaf surface due to rain or sprinkler, helping uptake of nutrients to the plant.
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