. Glen, will you please give Roger and I the URL of > the research work on your Web Page, or if it is not on it could we please > have a copy of it, or is it commercially confidential.
Sorry nothing written to provide re 501 as weed control. We did some work with Kikuyu grass on road verges in the early 90s. . Twas reported in the local paper at the time but was not successful due to the contractors lack of application repeats. I have played with other ideas and would be using something other than 501 these days, As described it speeds the plant up thru it growth cycle. There are other preps we have which stop the growth cycle dead in its tracks which would be more effective , once we get around to it. re ownership I agree that as soon as anything is in the public domain it is everyones -ala patent and trademark laws, At best one might get some credit for idea development if you make a loud enough noise, but ownership can only come through labelling/branding and keeping the details of your formula private ala microsoft. This has long been the loophole the BDANZ has used to keep me from publishing in their journal. Unless I reveal my formulas they will not publish anything about the effectiveness of my products. Some ethos about BD being a do it yourself practise. "Farmers for farmers" , watch out everyone else. They have not funded my work one bit ( actually actively discouraged support for it) so have no right to the formulas which funds it. Instead they prefer to tell their growers to use Phyrethreum for white fly than my BD remedy, which they know works because they did a surprise inspection on one of my client in 1992, when they did not believe his declarations. Strange but true. SO sadly we are back to privacy and secrecy if you wish to maintain ownership. A luxury landowners may be able to do without but alas us landless researchers have no other choice. re 'the silence' WHile there is always some scepticism about self proclaimed success, there is also not much to say often. All we can do is wait and see the outcome as time goes on. James do you have a website with research docs and pics avaialable? re research In the near future we will be posting the results of a trial done recently by Gill Cole of the efficacy of some of our remedies. Graphs and pictures included. (Just tidying up the titles on the graph.) There is no doubt potentised BD Preps work from this document. cheers Glen
