Thread: Dog Safe Herbicide

Originally Posted by Billbob

Put a teaspoon of sunlight detergent into the brew of glyphosate, it works as a wetting agent and helps it adsorb faster into the plant

With respect, it really doesn't.

Gly has some surfactant built into it, which for spot spraying is plenty enough really. If you're concerned just add a higher rate of gly which will increase the amount of surfactant.

Secondly, gly requires an acidic environment to work. Adding something alkaline like detergent actually reduces it's efficacy.

In a backyard scenario you're really not going to get chem in any faster than the time it takes (which for gly is up to 6 hours). In hot weather spray in the evening and avoid spraying within a few hours of rain and you should be fine.

To the OP, I use gly around my house, sometimes mixed with a little carfentrazone to help brown out some broadleaves. I had some KambaM (dicamba and MCPA) which I used on my kikuyu, but did get some damage. Kike is tough so it came back though.