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Ethrel

Ethrel^® is a growth regulator used in major horticultural crops and cereals. It promotes ripening in tomatoes, reduces curing time and promotes colour development in flue-cured tobacco, accelerates fruit maturity in apples and blueberries and loosens mature fruit from the stem in cherries for easier harvesting. In cereals, Ethrel is used to reduce lodging.

Approved for use in: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, NT, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YK

Product Highlights

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Promotes ripening and colouring of many crops

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Reduces curing time and promotes colour development in flue-cured tobacco

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Accelerates tomato ripening

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Helps fruit ripen all at the same time for once-over harvesting

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Accelerates apple and blueberry colouring and fruit maturity

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Loosens mature fruit from stem for easier harvest and less damage

Footnotes

^*Closed mixing/loading systems are required

Product Details

Crops	Groups & Active ingredients
• Apples • Blueberries • Cherries	Ethephon

Crops
• Apples • Blueberries • Cherries

Groups & Active ingredients
Ethephon

Use & Mixing

Crop	table-content-pests-other	Stage	Rate	Notes
Wheat		Apply when main stem and most of the tillers are between early flag leaf emergence to swollen-boot stage (Z 37 to Z 45). Do not apply if more than 10% of the awns have emerged (Z 49).	0.5 L/ac. (1.25 L/ha)	Proper timing of an Ethrel application is essential. Early or late applications will result in adverse effects to the crop. Determining the growth stage of the crop is best accomplished by sampling several plants from around the field.