{"id":389,"date":"2014-05-05T17:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T21:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/?p=389"},"modified":"2014-05-05T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T21:16:05","slug":"minimizing-cotton-injury-from-at-plant-herbicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/2014\/05\/minimizing-cotton-injury-from-at-plant-herbicides\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimizing cotton injury from at-plant herbicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px;padding: 0px;text-align: left;color: #606060;line-height: 150%;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This time of year I often get comments from cotton growers, crop consultants and retailers about cotton injury caused by the residual at plant herbicides we recommend in order to manage glyphosate resistant Palmer amaranth.\u00a0 Since a lot of our herbicide recommendations are driven by\u00a0herbicide resistance, sometimes we have to live with a little bit of crop injury.\u00a0 Below are a few tips to minimize cotton injury from at plant residual herbicides.<\/p>\n<p>1. Plant high vigor seed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px;padding: 0px;text-align: left;color: #606060;line-height: 150%;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">2. Shallow planting depth increases injury potential.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px;padding: 0px;text-align: left;color: #606060;line-height: 150%;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">3. Plant into a moist soil (preplant irrigation may be needed).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px;padding: 0px;text-align: left;color: #606060;line-height: 150%;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">4. Apply proper residual herbicides within 24 hr of planting.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px;padding: 0px;text-align: left;color: #606060;line-height: 150%;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">5. Avoid irrigation within 30 hr of planting (36 hr if cold).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px;padding: 0px;text-align: left;color: #606060;line-height: 150%;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">6. Avoid irrigation 24 hr before and 48 hr after emergence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px;padding: 0px;text-align: left;color: #606060;line-height: 150%;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 15px\" align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">7. Irrigate to develop the perfect cotton stand; however, limit <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">irrigation events during the first 2 wk after planting to as <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">few as possible after activating residual herbicides.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This time of year I often get comments from cotton growers, crop consultants and retailers about cotton injury caused by the residual at plant herbicides we recommend in order to manage glyphosate resistant Palmer amaranth.\u00a0 Since a lot of our herbicide recommendations are driven by\u00a0herbicide resistance, sometimes we have to live with a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/colquittag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}