HELP!!!! Just Sprayed My Hanging Baskets With.....WEEDKILLER!

[MrsForgetful]

Tonight I sprayed my hanging baskets with what i thought was a 'Bug Spray'.... but was infact a weed killer containing Glycophosphate.

So...within 3 minutes i had realsised my mistake and spent half an hour hosing down ...so my baskets now look like drowned rats!

Only time will tell if i have saved them...Maybe I should go ORGANIC! Any advice regarding longterm reaction to their mistreatment greatly appreciated! (As there is NOTHING more i can do now)

Tomorrow I am going to feed the plants to hopefully give them strength....

Cannot believe i have been so stupid.

You might have saved them by washing it all off....but in my experience it seems to be easier to kill garden plants than weeds with weedkiller ...so don't be surprised if they don't survive.

4 days on...and looking ok....a few odd leaves have looked a bit iffy- so have pinched out whole stem leading to damage....

apparently the weedkiller does not work well in contact with soil... therefore chances of root damage are not as bad as i thought.

but maybe you were right and you should go organic I can never believe people go around using these chemicals, I could never care enough about zapping a few weeds to breathe in this stuff myself.

Spilling the remains of your boiling kettle/teapot kills weeds - handy if you have a patio and you drink tea there and don't like their company

Um, while gyphosate is inactivated by contac t with the soil, I think it works by the plant taking it down to its roots internally so I'm afraid your roots may not be safe.
Hope the hosing worked!

I sprayed glyphsate on a primrose by mistake. I cried - after I'd given it a good washing.

It's still there though the flower's gone. The leaves look OK, and I'll see next year how much damage I've done. I do talk to it a lot too.{grin]

JUX...2 weeks on and i've not totally lost any single plant...but i've removed alot of leaves etc....reading on google...i see that sometimes the next year the flowers lose their colour etc... we shall see.....

Oh, that's interesting. I wonder why they lose their colour. I don't really know how flowers work, I know the green is chlorophyll but I had never thought about what caused the flower colour. Hmmm, maybe glyphowotsit affects some tiny little amino acid in a gene which makes colour.

Do you think if we sprayed our children their eye colour would change, or they'd suddenly turn from brunette to blonde or something?

Do you think it's worth having a go?

Maybe one should start on household pets. Not sure.