Crossbow Herbicide Dow Specialty Herbicide 1 gallon 55555282

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Product Feature

• Excellent control of woody plants and brush
• Excellent control of annual and perennial broadleaves
• No effect on grasses
• This weed killer can be applied by all types of sprayers, from hand-held models to tractor-mounted spray rigs
• Except for lactating dairy animals there are no grazing restrictions following the application of Crossbow herbicide

Product Description

Profile: Crossbow herbicide is a postemergent weed control product that targets woody plants and brush such as blackberries and poison oak as well as annual and perennial broadleaves, while leaving grasses unharmed.

Crossbow Herbicide Dow Specialty Herbicide 1 gallon 55555282 Review

I have a serious - as in BIBLICAL - poison ivy infestation in part of our yard we call "the field". It's a little over an acre of open meadow adjacent to my lawn, and there is poison ivy in it EVERYWHERE - just a little in some areas, but it is the dominant plant life in other areas. I tried Round-Up poison ivy spray (glyphosate + triclopyr) but is not effective enough unless you double the recommended concentration but then it kills everything around it, too. Then I tried Ortho's "Brush-B-Gon Poison Ivy Oak & Brush Killer" (triclopyr) which appeared to do next to nothing for the first couple of weeks, but in fact the poison ivy eventually died after 3-4 weeks. Still, I could only find it in diluted ready-for-use in 1-gallon bottles, and I'm not about to buy a pallet of gallon bottles to cover the acre I need to treat!!! Where to turn next?

A colleague who grew up farming recommended Crossbow (triclopyr + 2,4-D), so I found it here on Amazon and bought it. I also (locally) bought a used 15-gallon tow-behind sprayer to apply it. I spoke with a product specialist in the Dow Agro customer service department to make sure I understood how to best apply it and she told me to apply 1.5 gallons of concentrate per acre for poison ivy control, when the temperature is <85*F, minimal wind, with the target plants grown out since the last mowing long enough for there to be enough foliage to spray the product on. I waited for the right conditions to spray it, which came this past Saturday morning.

Later in the day, I walked by the field and was stunned by what I saw - that morning's healthy poison ivy leaves were already spotted and wilting, the milkweed was already curled over, and the clover and a couple other broad-leaf weeds were already black and completely dead!! After only 8 hours!!! Now it's 4 days post-application, and almost all the poison ivy and most other weeds and hummock grasses are completely dead too! The super-thin-blade grasses seem to be collateral casualties unfortunately, but the regular, normal-width-blade grasses appears to be unaffected by it. I have literally never seen such fast and dramatic effects from a weed killer!! It seems like a very expensive product at $75-$100 per acre per application, but I don't know of any other product that will give you that kind of ferocious herbicidal ability for a tough plant like poison ivy, at any price!

FOLLOW UP TO ORIGINAL REVIEW:

After my 2012 3% Crossbow application and the hard 2012-13 New England winter, a tiny little bit of poison ivy came back this year (the "field" is now a proper, mowed lawn...) - <0.01% of what I had before last year's Crossbow treatment. I sprayed a ~1.5% concentration (~3 qts or 0.75 gal/acre) - about half the strength of my 2012 treatment - this spring and it killed most, but not all, of the poison ivy. I'd estimate about 1% of the poison ivy survived the 2013 spraying, and all the grass survived just fine. I mixed up a ~3% solution in a hand sprayer and "took care" (in the "Pulp Fiction" sense of the phrase) of the remaining survivors.

I'm still very happy with Crossbow, but I would recommend applying it at 2-3% concentration for poison ivy. Any stronger will kill your grass, while any weaker won't be effective enough.

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