I use either a 2-gallon pump sprayer or an Ortho Dial N Spray, which is a hose end type sprayer. The Ortho you set to 4oz and add the 1 TBS daconil and the remainder of 4oz water. So if you have a bunch of plants, you may add, say, 5 TBS of daconil and fill the cup to the 20oz line with water (or 8TBS & 32oz line, etc, etc.)

The tip can be rotated to spray upwards. I spray normally and then rotate the tip upwards and take upward-sweeping strokes to get the undersides or the main stem.

P.S. The Ortho is a hose end type sprayer so the spray is at a much higher pressure than a pump sprayer that has a finer mist. It's available at Walmart for around $9.95.

If you have Ryobi tools, specifically the One+ 18 volt cordless line of tools that has about 30-35 attachments or tools that use the same battery, they have a garden sprayer that has a tuneable tip like a pump sprayer. You can reach deep inside the canopy and angle the wand to where you want the spray to go.

The garden sprayer has been discontinued but you can occasionally find them on ebay as refurbs. They even sell a chainsaw, weedwhacker, hedge trimmer, pruner, etc, all using the same battery.

Hope this helps.

Korney.I like the idea of the rotating nozzle will pick up the Ortho today also thanks for doing the measurements.
Hope you have seen your first blush

Korney...I use Daconil Concentrate, and the ratio is 1 TBS to 1 GAL of water. Not sure what concentration you are using with the 1 to 4 ratio. Must be a more diluted mixture, I'm sure.

Korney

I just contacted Ortho's customer service about their cursed Dial and Spray hose-end sprayers because the two I recently purchased were complete duds. They wouldn't spray but just dribbled out of the sprayer in the front and back, and furthermore the container quickly filled the rest of the way up with water, diluting the Ortho Garden Disease Control and the entire 8 ounces of Bt I'd combined in the first one.

I had to talk to a supervisor who finally agreed to reimburse me for the two sprayers and the wasted fungicide and Bt. She did ask for the Lot # that's located on the bottom of the sprayers (it was the same for both of the ones I bought), and told me that they'd had a lot of complaints about some of the sprayers that seem to be related to the Lot #s.

Anyway, test the sprayers with water first, which I didn't do. Since I couldn't spray my tomatoes with either the Daconil or the BT, they've really deteriorated from what I think is Septoria and from the armyworms I've seen. I wish large corporations would test their products before sending them out to be put on the shelves. If they fail, it can be very costly for the purchaser who depends on the products.

Anney thanks for taking the time to tell us about the defective ortho sprayers and to test them first.Hope you have your garden problem under control and enjoying the fruits of your labor.

Sorry......now I realize you were talking about hose sprayers. My bad.

edweather, because of the thickness of Daconil it rarely sprays thru any sprayer. That's why you add the 4oz of water, to thin it out. When you set the dial to 4oz, you will be applying 1TBS per gallon if you put in 1TBS and filled to the 4oz line.

Anney, the only problems I've ever had with the sprayer is the trigger spring, which is plastic. it's not a real spring but more like the plastic bending and snapping back like a spring. Sometimes it breaks where it flexes. When that happens, just call Ortho, give them the # on the sprayer and tell them how much you paid for it and they will send you a check.

Did you just pour the Daconil & Bt straight into the sprayer without dilluting it? Daconil/chlorothalonil is too thick to spray straight, it needs to be diluted with water to make it thin enough to spray. So if so, that may be why you had problems and lucky they are replacing/refunding everything!

I usually make 32oz I think, so 8 TBS of Daconil and the rest water to 32oz mark. I just set the dial to 4oz.

If you have a thin enough product, you can pour it directly into the cup and set the dial to whatever ratio recommended, like 1 tsp or 1 TBS or 1oz or whatever. Water never enters the cup. Therefore you can pour whatever thin enough product you use back into the original container when done.

If you use powder fertilizers like Miracle-Gro or whatever brand, use the same 4oz procedure. Mix, say, 2 TBS of MG for Tomatoes to the remainder of 8oz of water and set the dial to 4oz. This will apply 1TBS per gallon.

Hope this helps.

I know this is an old thread, but I have a daconil question.

I just mixed up a gallon of daconil using concentrate. However, I only ended up using about half of it on my plants after giving them a good spraying.

Can I save it until my next application next week? Does it go bad quickly after diluted? Just want to make sure I keep my plants protected...

Thanks for the help!

It should be fine as long as you keep it in a cool dark place. I done the same thing last year, more than once. Next time mix 1-1/2 tsp per half gallon. I've got it down to 3cc per 24oz spray bottle for my plants now but will have to mix more as they grow. I doubt I will exceed the half gallon though.

I just threw out my Ortho dial sprayer, the second. I was dumb enough to buy another after I threw the first one out. Fortunately, I have kept my old Ortho hose end sprayer (very old), the type where you held your finger over a little hole to engage the spray. It delivers a very fine mist compared to the large droplets delivered by the new dial type, droplets which are too large to cling to most leaf surfaces. I had to add a lot of detergent to the mixture to get it to stick, but it deliverd too much spray too fast for my satisfaction.

RB

Is Daconil Fungacide Spray Bottle any good for mealybugs on my gardenia tree?

Probably not, as it is meant to cover the leaves as a barrier to fungus attaching to the leaves, it is not an insecticide. On the other hand, if it did indeed dry over and was able to clog up the breathing of the mealybugs, it could have some effect.