Thanks everyone. I am just a small home grower with a few trees that need to be sprayed. I use a hose end sprayer and the southern Ag liquid copper fungicide which is very convenient for me. I dump in the concentrate, turn the dial to the right setting, and spray Away. The whole process takes less than 15 minutes. but I do want to use better quality products and pay less for them. I know I'm getting raped on the price of a pint of fungicide.
Obviously these products aren't made for home growers. I am having a HELL Of a time converting this stuff to what might be useful to me. For example, It doesn't help to know how many gallons per acre to use because I don't have acres... and honestly, a lot of the wording doesn't make sense.
For CS 2005, it says for mango anthracnose use "150-200 ppm per 100 gallons." I don't know why it says per 100 gallons - concentration is concentration whether I have one drop or an entire ocean full. So there's no need to assume any volume whatsoever. In fact, the whole point of concentration is that total volume doesn't matter!
So If I just ignore the per 100 gallons part, and then go to the dilution table it says that for "50 gallons per acre" at 200 ppm to use 25.6 oz. Well,
I ASSUME it actually means to use 25.6 ounces for every 50 gallons to achieve 200 ppm concentration. Obviously if I'm spraying at 50 gallons diluted solution per acre, and im spraying a thousand acres I'm going to use more product than if I sprayed 100 acres, or way more than one acre. So again, very confusing.
Anyways, if i go with my assumption and I divide 25.6oz / 50 gallons, I get 0.512 oz/gallon. One tablespoon is 0.5 oz, so basically to get 200 ppm, I believe we are to use one tablespoon of concentrate per gallon.
This is a measurement I can actually use.So to wrap this all up, is CS5000 a liquid concentrate? Can a homeowner buy it? And if so, to treat mango anthracnose I should set my sprayer at 1 tablespoon per gallon, right?Thanks... Sorry if that was confusing.