Thanks Jonathan, It looks like I will need to spray cooper Sunday evening. Things are opening fast in this weather.
Art----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: Apple-Crop Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:22 PM Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: AI nozzles for airblast sprayers Art, I am trying them for the first time myself. I went with TurboDrop from Greenleaf. They were the only brand that had gallonage/minute range I needed. This capacity comes at a price as the nozzle and AI body are quite long and require modification to the sprayer if you use the two nozzle w/rollover setup. T-Jet and Albuz make shorter ones that fit inside the nozzle body, but they don't seem to put out the higher GPM's that the TurboDrops do. Unfortunately this warm spring weather has pushed our trees and we needed to spray sooner than I had planned. I put the old nozzles back in so I could get some fungicide out. I'm planning to make the necessary mods to the sprayer and test pattern with water sensitive paper as soon as I can get a chance. Dr. Landers from Cornell spoke at our Pomological Society meeting this past December and had a lot of good information on drift reduction and sprayer tuning. Regards, Jonathan Bishop Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with Nextel Direct Connect ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Arthur Kelly <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:14:55 -0400 To: Apple-Crop<[email protected]> Subject: Apple-Crop: AI nozzles for airblast sprayers Hi all, I am considering switching over to air induction nozzles for my orchard sprayer. What is the experience so far in terms of pressure, gallons per acre, the effect of row spacing and tree size etc? Does anyone have any suggestions? Art Kelly Kelly Orchards Acton, Me
