Agree - we will pre-wet plants with plant wash, rinse with them during and flood after if there are large amounts that will affect plant life below. Plant wash neutralizes the bleach AND restores the bacteria in the soil that the bleach kills.

Doug, you are not doing any harm in using Bleach Wash. It just doesn't have as strong of neutralizing properties like Plant wash does. Bleach wash is great for windows, siding, metal, cedar, rinsing out your pump at the end of the day etc. and neutralizing bleach on non-organics. Plant wash is specifically for organics.

For instance, you could accidentally put an ounce of Bleach wash in your SH mix and probably be fine. With Plant Wash, an ounce would make your entire tank toast.

Just a side note - you've got to be careful with using Miracle-Gro or other generic garden fertilizers. There are plants, such as Japanese Lace Leaf Maples that will die if you feed them garden variety fertilizers - too much nitrogen. Found this out the hard way.... those trees are not cheap to replace. 

So staying on this Subject....I have a complex of duplexes I am bidding on.  They are being cautious about the plant/grass damage around the downspouts.  Along with our initial treatments...is it feasible to come back a week after service and retreat with Plant Wash?  If so, since we are talking 28 buildings...can this re-treatment be done via a pump up sprayer? 

Zach Maynard wrote:

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Alejandro you may need to water more. The Plant wash is just a part of the equation not a be all end all that will save plants. If the chems havent been diverted, diluted and decontaminated the plant wash wont have a shot.

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 Oh trust me we water the crap outta the plants and grass. Then I come back and re water them when im done.  It really hasn't been bad its the ocassional grass here and plant there. But summers coming and we have been getting hit already with 100+degree weather  which  might result in more plant damage. the good thing customers don't complain even though I offer plant and grass replacement for free , they replace it themselves and still refer me to other potential customers! So it's a win win haha

Doug Gore wrote:

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AC Lockyer wrote:

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Doug,

I know you took the Plant & Property protection module and passed the test. It surprises me that you hadn't ordered Plant Wash yet. I'd go back and review that module because this question is well covered there.

AC

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To be honest there were several people who said not to buy it......I really want to obtain the (probably) impossible rate of a zero kill and only minimal grass burns. 

I will be giving it a try AC. I'm on vacation and will order some just before I go home.

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Doug,

As many have found out and many more will come to know I don't create products just to sell. These are products I created and used every day in my multimillion dollar roof cleaning companies. Plant Wash by its self is useless, the Plant and Property protection module by its self is useless, the Three D's of Plant Protection by them selves are useless, even great support and guidance are useless if we don't accept the knowledge and experience and use all of these tools together to form a great plant and property protection strategy.

I use to see this all the time with my crews and the use of the ropes and safety equipment while on roofs. I was told how un needed it was, how they actually made being on a roof more dangerous, how they were too much to keep up with and how they slowed people down. I quickly found that the same men that had all the excuses about why they didn't like wearing their safety ropes had the same excuses about why they didn't like condoms. All those guys had three and four kids from different ladies and several thousand a month in child support payments. Less than a month after we split Mallard residential from Mallard commercial Mallard residential had a man fall off a roof. This was directly attributed to the now lack of accountability for wearing the safety ropes. One year later Brian Lamb walked backwards into and through an open skylight on a three story building with no ropes on. Brian broke his back and both legs. While in the hospital he lost one leg below the knee and one at the ankle from infection. He lived in a wheel chair for two years in rehab and now has two artificial legs. He doesn't dismiss the importance of any one part of our processes anymore.

We are starting an SEO driven web directory with custom mapping listing each SoftWash Authorized company in a geographical area. It is being worked on this summer. We are also starting a consumer driven web site for SoftWash Systems and releasing several consumer based videos for educating consumers about SoftWash Authorized companies. Many of you have already received a survey because we are beginning to track the best and brightest in our network to funnel these leads to. We are tracking chemical sales from All of our dealers. We will be advertising to consumers all the steps that SoftWash Systems Authorized companies take in caring for a customers plants and property. One of those steps that will be heavily highlited will be the Three D's of plant protection, divert, dilute, decontaminate and the use of SoftWash Systems Plant Wash in those steps. If we find that any SoftWash Systems Authorized Pro is not following the steps and using the products that we advertise to our consumers and property owners, they will receive a written warning and if they do not adhere they will be removed from the network.

There is only one person here who actually had a horticulture degree and knew long ago what was actually killing the plants.

Moral of the story, don't say your SoftWash Systems Authorized and not follow the business model. Oh and don't kill plants. Plant damages can ALWAYS be traced back to short putting and are ALWAYS avoidable with the right plan.

AC