Dicamba, 2-4-D Damage Self Induced

@ztom I agree with Kevin

That does not look good.
I also agree with @a_Vivaldi in to prune them. My brother (he does a lot of spraying) says that plants with damage done (ex. Being mown/limbs being knocked off) to them before or after spraying have a lot less kill on things. My mode of action if I was desperate not to have them die on me would be to prune them starting with drooping parts.

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ive done the same in the past when i first seen signs of spray damage. saved a few of my plants/ trees that way.

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this happened a few years ago, so far the hens are fine, and i agree, we didn’t eat their eggs for two months, they did however not lay as many eggs for a while. now i use baking soda and corn meal 50/50 mix, that kills mice, rats, squirrels and chipmunks but not chickens or birds.

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I think moderate to minimal. based on what you provided.

do you mix with water? what is the ratio? rather use this instead of poison.

50% baking soda and 50% corn meal or use a box of jiffy mix corn bread as the corn meal mix, it’s 1 to 1 mix. the mice cannot pass gas, the acid in the gut of the mice reacts with the baking soda producing gas, it may be a Co2 reaction with the acids in the gut of the rodent. NO water! it must be dry.

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@ztom any updates how they look? Dead? Any die back?

40-50% of the first grapevine slowly died, including the grape bunches. The remaining leaves look slightly damaged with no new growth but are mostly still green and alive. The grape bunches that survived are just starting to ripen. They look ok but don’t taste sweet enough yet, about 14 brix, but probably aren’t fully ripe yet. I’m curious to see if they develop full flavor. Should be another week or so for that variety. Chronologically following the vines I sprayed, I see similar damage but each vine is slightly better off than the other. Some of those varieties don’t ripen for another month or so though, so the grapes could still get more damage. The extra bummer is that the most heavily damaged vine is my Lorelei which I really like and nobody is currently selling. I really want to get a bunch of cuttings going. I assume it will be ok next year but half of it does look pretty much dead.

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Too bad, good thing they are not completely dead though.

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