Instructions for Use

There are basically three different times at which Lithovit can be applied:

• at the beginning of foliation
• at the time of flowering and
• during the period when the fruit is growing and ripening

Lithovit may be used once or several times, at most every 10-15 days, separately or in combination with a plant protection agent. Dosage: 1.5-2.0 kg/ha as a 0.5% solution (500 g of Lithovit per 100 l of water). It can be applied using any commercially available pesticide sprayer.

Examples of recommended application:

Sugar beet:
Between the 4th and 6th leaf and again 2 and 4 weeks later.

Grain:
Winter grains: once in the autumn, when 2-3 tillers have appeared. Winter and summer grains: once after appearance of the last leaf.

Maize:
Between the 4th and 6th leaf and at the 10-leaf stage.

Oil-seed rape:
Winter rape at the two-leaf stage in the autumn, winter and summer rape between the 6th and the 8th leaf and before flowering.

Potatoes:
15 days after first foliation and again after a further 15 days.

Salad crops & vegetables:
First application with the bedding out, thereafter twice more at 15 day intervals.

Vines:
At flowering, when the first fruits appear, and upon development of the first bunch of grapes.

Tomatoes:
3 to 4 applications at intervals of 15 days.

Strawberries & small berries:
During flowering, upon formation of the first fruits and after a further 15 days.

Fruit farming / Ornamental woody plants:
3-5 applications at intervals of 15 days, commencing approx. 10 days after the first foliation.

Ornamental herbaceous plants:
2-4 applications at intervals of (15 to) 20 days, commencing with the third leaf.