Box hedging spray

[jinkster]

Hello all.

Can anyone recommend a box hedging spray. We normally use Provanto Fungus Fighter Concentrate and mix in a sprayer as we have quite a bit of box hedging. It appears to be out of stock everywhere and I don’t want to buy the ready mixed stuff as we’ll need around 8 bottles of it.

Can anyone recommend an alternative. We don’t have blight but spray once/ twice a year as preventative measure and it works!

[JoshSm]

Something like RoseClear Ultra might have enough overlap in the absence of other choices. Can't remember exactly what active incredient is in it but it does include a fungicide.

From memory my stock came as a route to the fungicide rather than the insecticide part for something other than roses.

[beambeam1]

I had never heard of the stuff until I saw this post last night but if it helps, Tesco seem to be selling off the non-concentrated bottles at £2.65 - just grabbed some out of my local branch this morning.

[gregch]

Have a look at TopBuxus - xentari for caterpillar, health mix for blight, but they have a bunch of products for overall wellbeing of box hedging.

I believe it's the default choice for the professional horticulturalists. You can get it on amazon or direct from Topbuxus UK.

Edited by gregch on Sunday 3rd August 10:13

[JoshSm]

So apparently the active ingredient in Fungus Fighter was Tebuconazole, Multirose Concentrate is an alternative which includes this ingredient combined with an insecticide. Also found in many other things.

Fungus Fighter Plus is a mix of Tebuconazole and Trifloxystrobin.

The RoseClear mentioned earlier uses Triticonazole. Also found in FungusClear and will work on Box blight.

[andyxxx]

I have loads of box and this year in April I had ‘box blight’ caterpillars and also the fungal growth that turns the leaves brown.

I used Top buxus that immediately got rid of the caterpillars and sprayed all the plants with this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0052NL4FK?ref_=ppx_hz...
It worked but took about 8 weeks for the plants to properly get healthy (even most the areas that looked dead have grown back healthy)

I will spray them every autumn and spring from now on.

[otherman]

gregch said:

Have a look at TopBuxus - xentari for caterpillar, health mix for blight, but they have a bunch of products for overall wellbeing of box hedging.

I believe it's the default choice for the professional horticulturalists. You can get it on amazon or direct from Topbuxus UK.

Edited by gregch on Sunday 3rd August 10:13

Would this rescue one with blight that's fairly advanced? Or do I need to pull it all up?

[Richard-D]

otherman said:

gregch said:

Have a look at TopBuxus - xentari for caterpillar, health mix for blight, but they have a bunch of products for overall wellbeing of box hedging.

I believe it's the default choice for the professional horticulturalists. You can get it on amazon or direct from Topbuxus UK.

Edited by gregch on Sunday 3rd August 10:13

Would this rescue one with blight that's fairly advanced? Or do I need to pull it all up?

We had a run that had no green on the top of a 10 metre section. TopBuxus brought it back and half way through the next year you could barely tell. Was going to recommend until I saw someone already had.

[gregch]

otherman said:

Would this rescue one with blight that's fairly advanced? Or do I need to pull it all up?

Depends what you mean by advanced - is there black lesions on the actual stems (not leaves?). If so those bits will need to be cut out.

Worth a go though before grubbing it all out. We thought a section of ours was a goner but now you'd never know.

Good luck with it!