Wet your plants, wet the glass, spray CH and then rinse glass immediately. Let dwell then rinse. It takes longer to rinse than to clean. Thats why a booster pump is a good addition. Make sure you use paint sock to dissolve the CH. To remove dried CH use a 50-50 mix white vinegar/water. use reverisble squeege with cloth scrubber on one side and rubber blade on the other. It cleans easily. You can also spray bleach wash and agitate with soft brush on glass. It gets easier with practice.

THANKS TIM for the advice! Can you tell me step by step how do you filter the CH in a paint sock? Run water through the paint sock? I'm not picturing the system...

The big drawback for me personally on SH is cost and logistics. It's expensive and takes about an hour and a half round trip to pick it up. Wheras I can pick up 100 lb drum of CH 8 min up the road (they don't even sell SH there - not many pools in rainy Portland).

I'm drawn to CH because of how little it damages plants. I've poured a 3% solution straight into a lawn and not had a single blade of grass brown. (I don't recommend this - it was simply a test)

If I can dial in the residue and the mixing time, I'd like to use CH 100% of the time.

 

My CH cost - $0.12/oz

My SH cost - $4/gal

Cost analysis for 100 gallons -

3% solution - (CH - 300 oz @ $0.12/oz) = $36 using CH

3% solution - (SH - 30 gal @ $4/gal) = $120 using SH

Aug. 3% solution - (SH - 20 gal @ $4 gal) + (CH - 100 oz @ $0.12/oz) = $92 using Augmenting (SH+CH)

 

Make sure you pre-wet, and rinse again and again. Keep your mix tank cleaned do not let sediment build up in the bottom. I had to rinse mine out every couple of days when I was using ch.

If you keep them wet you won't have any problems. Make sure you have the right amount of greenwash in your mix and it gives you a sheeting action that helps with the spotting. Ispray my chem mix back over if I they look like they're drying out and don't have fresh water handy and have never had a problem(knock on wood), so don't let the ch hater's get to you down. The added plant safety is well worth any mixing problems or windowspotting you will see(just my opinion). If your having problems with mixing you should look into a small pump for mixing only, I got mine for $60 at Tractor Supply for 2gpm pump and $11 for extended warrany which covers anything. Hope this helps.

For a 3% augmented mix I use 50 ounces ch and 10 gallon sh  in a 50 gallon tank. I put ch in paints knock and tie storing around it.  I hang it in tank.  i add my sh.  I then put hose against paint sock and may spray though it.  When it is dissolved you will have marble sized ball left.  Put spray wand tank to mix or use a pump to mix.  Keep eye on residue and Rinse out tank.

Hank we pretty much only use sh. As long as you follow the information in AC's plant and property protection module we really don't have any issues.

Thanks all for your advice! I'll probably end up adding a Concord unit onto my skid at some point. Sounds promising.