Description
Ethephon
Mode of action
Plant growth regulator with systemic properties. Penetrates into the plant tissues, and is decomposed to ethylene, which affects the growth processes.
Usage
To promote pre-harvest ripening in apples, currants, blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, morello cherries, citrus fruit, figs, tomatoes, sugar beet and fodder beet seed crops, coffee, capsicums, etc.; to accelerate post-harvest ripening in bananas, mangoes, and citrus fruit; to facilitate harvesting by loosening of the fruit in currants, gooseberries, cherries, and apples; to increase flower bud development in young apple trees; to prevent lodging in cereals, maize, and flax; to induce flowering of Bromeliads; to stimulate lateral branching in azaleas, geraniums, and roses; to shorten the stem length in forced daffodils; to induce flowering and regulate ripening in pineapples; to accelerate boll opening in cotton; to modify sex expression in cucumbers and squash; to increase fruit setting and yield in cucumbers; to improve the sturdiness of onion seed crops; to hasten the yellowing of mature tobacco leaves; to stimulate latex flow in rubber trees, and resin flow in pine trees; to stimulate early uniform hull split in walnuts; etc
Formulation type: Ethephon 480g/l SL
Application
Crop Function How to use Application Method/Remarks
Rice Accelerating of ripening and yield increasing 125ml/100L water Application as a full cover spray should be performed 15 to 20 days before trans-planting and at 5~6 leaf stage of the plant.
Or spraying at heading stage of rice, can promote the rice mature early 2 ~ 3 days, and can reduce the empty immature grain, increase grain weight. The best spraying time is 3 ~ 10 days after rice full heading.
PHI: 40 days
Banana &
Mangos Accelerating of ripening 250~330ml /100Lwater A Full foliar spray at 10 days prior to fruit ripening; PHI: 20 days
Harvest the fruits when the fruits color changes and immerse the fruit into prepared solution .
- Related Keywords :Ethephon
- Date Posted : 2015. 11. 21
- Valid Until : 2016. 11. 21