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Syngenta Fusilade Herbicide- Get Broad-Spectrum Grass Control in Various Situations

From golf courses and sports turf to lawn, landscapes, and ornamentals, Syngenta Fusilade II Herbicide gives you the broad-spectrum control to keep your clients satisfied and save your team time and money.

Protect Your Ornamentals While Tackling Challenging Grass Weeds with Fusilade

Fusilade® II herbicide is a selective post-emergent turf and ornamental herbicide that controls a long list of perennial and annual grass weeds in various turf and landscape areas. Fast and effective, Fusilade II can be applied over the top or as a directed spray without damaging valuable ornamental plants/shrubs. It can also be used at reduced rates to safely remove bermudagrass from tall fescue and zoysiagrass.

Fusilade II is a grass herbicide safe to use around ornamental plants and on fine fescue turf. This selective, systemic herbicide inhibits the fatty acid synthesis required for the growth of new weeds. Because of this mode of action, grass weed control may take two to three weeks, although the plant will stop growing within a week after application. The spot treatment rate for Fusilade II in landscape beds, fence lines, and non-turf areas is 0.75 oz. per gal. Poa annua and fine fescue are naturally tolerant to Fusilade II.

If perennial grass weeds are a component of the weed population you want to control in landscape beds and other non-turf areas, Fusilade II and Reward can be tank-mixed at 0.75 oz per gal each herbicide plus a nonionic surfactant. This mixture will enhance control of perennial grass weeds such as bermudagrass, bentgrass, quackgrass, etc.

Features:

• Offers selective post-emergent control of many perennial and annual grassy weeds in a variety of turf and landscape areas.
• Allows for higher rates to be used for non-selective control of grasses during renovations.
• Fusilade II moves quickly into the shoots, roots, rhizomes, stolons, and growing points of treated grass weeds.
• Fusilade II eliminates the time and expense of hand weeding when applied over the top in landscaped areas. It can also be used as a directed spray to minimize any potential phytotoxicity.
• Fast-acting performance = results. Fusilade II moves quickly to all growing points to stop growth. Within a week, there is a loss of vigor, followed by yellowing and/or reddening and the eventual death of the grassy weeds without harming ornamental plants.

Active Ingredient:

Fluazifop-P-butyl

Use Sites:

• Golf Courses
• Cool-Season Turfgrass
• Greenhouse and Nursery Ornamentals
• Sports Fields
• Residential and Commercial Landscapes
• See Fusilade herbicide label for complete list

Weeds Controlled:

• Crabgrass
• Bermudagrass
• Quackgrass
• Wild Oats
• See Fusilade herbicide label for complete list

Application:

Post-emergent application. Do not apply to tall fescue during the summer. See Fusilade herbicide label for complete details and application instructions.
Thorough coverage of all weed plant foliage is important for good activity. Optimum weed control is achieved when young actively growing weeds are treated that are not under stress from moisture, temperature, low soil fertility, mechanical, or chemical injury.
TIMING – Best control of susceptible grass weeds is obtained when Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide is applied to actively growing grass weeds before they exceed the listed growth stages shown on this label. Refer to the grass weed table for specific directions on weed growth stages.

For best control, use sufficient spray volume and pressure to ensure complete coverage of the target grass weeds. Apply in 1-2 GAL final spray per 1,000 SQ FT with spray pressures of 40-60 psi at the nozzle tip. When grass weed foliage is dense, use 60 psi and a minimum of 2 GAL per 1,000 SQ FT to ensure coverage of grass weed foliage. Do not exceed the maximum application rates for Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide.

Always add a high-quality nonionic surfactant containing at least 75% surface-active agent, at 0.25-0.5% v/v (1/2-1 PINT/25 GAL) of the finished spray volume for ground sprays.

For best results-

• DO NOT USE FLOOD TYPE OR OTHER SPRAY NOZZLE TIPS WHICH DELIVER COARSE, LARGE DROPLET SPRAYS.
• DO NOT APPLY FUSILADE II TURF AND ORNAMENTAL HERBICIDE WITH CONTROLLED DROPLET APPLICATORS (CDA) OR ANY SIMILAR DEVICES.
• DO NOT APPLY THIS PRODUCT THROUGH ANY TYPE OF IRRIGATION SYSTEM.

Landscape & Ornamentals-

For landscaped areas in residential, commercial, public, and industrial buildings, roadsides, tree farms, Christmas trees, field-grown ornamentals, greenhouses, nurseries, flower beds, industrial weed control, roadsides, including rights of ways, utility easements, and utility structures:

Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide can be used to control annual and perennial grass weeds in many newly transplanted and established dicot ornamentals, trees, shrubs, and ground covers. Apply 16-24 FL OZ/A (0.4 – 0.6 FL OZ/1,000 SQ FT) of Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide in sufficient water along with 0.25% (1/2 PINT/25 GAL) of a nonionic surfactant. Use only nonionic surfactant on ornamentals. DO NOT USE A CROP OIL CONCENTRATE WITH FUSILADE II TURF AND ORNAMENTAL HERBICIDE ON ORNAMENTALS.

Noncrop Areas, Roadside, Industrial, and Other Areas-

Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide can control annual and perennial grass weeds in noncrop areas. Noncrop areas include airports, cemeteries, electric transformer stations, and sub-stations, pipeline pumping stations, around residential, commercial, public, and industrial buildings, storage yards, fence lines, parkways, roadsides, rights-of-way, and similar noncropland areas.

Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide and Reward Landscape and Aquatic Herbicide may be applied together in a tank mix program for desiccation plus systemic control of grassy weeds.

Apply 16–24 FL OZ Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide with 16–32 FL OZ Reward Landscape and Aquatic Herbicide per acre. Add 8–16 FL OZ of a 75% or greater nonionic surfactant per 100 GAL of water.

Control Symptoms:

Growth of treated grass weeds stops soon after application. Symptoms include loss of vigor, yellowing and/or reddening, and eventual death to the treated grass weed plant. Symptoms are generally observed 7-14 days after treatment, depending on grass weed species and environmental conditions. Complete control occurs from 10-21 days following application.

Management of Resistant Weeds:

Fusilade II Turf and Ornamental Herbicide is a Group 1 herbicide (ACCase-inhibitor mode of action). Some naturally occurring grass weed populations have been identified as resistant to herbicides with the ACCase-inhibitor mode of action. Through repeated use of these herbicides in the same field, the selection of resistant biotypes may result in control failures. A resistant biotype may be present if poor performance cannot be attributed to adverse weather conditions or improper application methods. If resistance is suspected, contact your local Syngenta representative for assistance.

Principles of Herbicide Resistance Management-

• Ensure that good spray coverage is achieved with proper spray volumes and calibrated equipment.
• Use the full label rate of product.
• Apply integrated weed management practices. Use multiple herbicide mechanisms of action with overlapping weed spectrums in rotation, sequences, or mixtures.
• Use cultivation, fertilizer regimens, seeding rates, and row widths that enhance crop competitiveness.
• Prevent weed escapes from producing seed.

Frequently Asked Questions:

What is the rate per gallon?
The rate per gallon is 0.75 OZ/GAL, with 0.5 OZ of a good quality NIS (nonionic surfactant) for grass weed control.

Will this product injure my grass?
Fusilade II is, by nature, a very active herbicide on grasses. In fact, the primary use of Fusilade II is to control grass weeds around dicot plants. Only fine fescue turf is tolerant of Fusilade II at the full label rate. Reduced rates (see label) can be applied to tall fescue and zoysiagrass turf. However, avoid applications to tall fescue in the summer.

Will Fusilade II kill broadleaf weeds?
No, Fusilade II will only control grass weeds.