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Bag says 140g to 340 gallons of water per hectare. Can anyone please convert this and approx how much a gram is converted to a teaspoon. thank you

drew

4/8/2006 5:07:59 PM

Ctpumpkin@optonline.net

Drew,

Nova 40WP (in Imperial measurements - my metric sucks) calls for 2.5-5 oz per acre. That would be 70-140 grams per acre or .8-1.6 grams per 1000 sq ft.

I haven't weighed a teaspoon of Nova in years. We have a cool flowable version here in the Sates now that is much easier to measure (Eagle 20EW).

Since we're stuck estimating, the rule of thumb is about 4 grams per teaspoon. So a quarter teaspoon gets you in the ball park.

But I'd be much more comfortable if someone would toss a teaspoon of Nova on a good digital or triple beam scale & post the results.

When I first found this link I thought it might be helpful. But after playing around with it I'm that much more convinced that we need a scale.

http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/gram_calc.htm

4/8/2006 11:20:40 PM

Ontario

Thanks again Steve

4/8/2006 11:22:13 PM

Picton,ON (j.vincent@xplornet.ca)

Drew
I used Nova last year. I mixed about a teaspoon full with a gallon of water. It worked fantastic.
You do know this stuff is not registered on Pumpkins up here....lol

4/9/2006 7:24:07 PM

Ontario

Okay I bought a digital scale, a tablespoon weighs 4 grams which I think is alot. So my rough conversion is 3.5 ounces per 100 grams. So there is approx 107000 sq ft per hectare. So 1000 sq ft you would have to divide by 107 into 107000 to get an answer of 1070 sq ft. So 140 grams divided by 107 equals 1.3 grams. So 1 teaspoon of product per 1000 sq ft is right. I made an earlier mistake thou, the closest vegetable it is registered for in Canada is cucumbers, it calls for 340 grams in 1000 litres(250 US gallons) per hectare. So if I divide 107 into 340(12 oz) I get 3.17 grams per 2.3 gallons per 1000 sq ft. So 1 tablespoon per 2.3 gallons of water per 1000 sq ft seems an awful lot of product and water. Does the plant need to be running off of product for it to be effective or is the 140 grams the correct dosage for pumpkins. I know cucumbers seem more prone to powdery mildew then pumpkins.

drew

4/9/2006 9:12:25 PM

Ontario

Okay found the label directions on there web site strawberry.ifas.ufl.edu/chemicalinfo/nova.pdf and it says 2.5 oz to 5 oz, so 140 grams is right but they don't state dilution rates for cucurbits the only dilution rates I find on the pdf file is 250 gallons which means 5.8 gallons for 1000 sq ft which means the plant would be saturated with this stuff. Am I missing something here?

drew

4/9/2006 9:23:36 PM

Picton,ON (j.vincent@xplornet.ca)

Drew
Very few companies publish dilution rates. Usually just the amont of product required/ acre or Hectare and will say something like apply in a minimum of X gallons water. The Dilution rate is not really important. The water is just a carrier for the active chemical. I use roughly 1.5 to 2 gallons of water sto spary my patch (4000 ft2 last year), of course this is less earlyer on and more later on. Just spray to the point the solution begins to drip off. You can also mix sea weed and fish with Nova....mixes well!

4/10/2006 10:48:23 PM