
Weed Control
Best Pre-Emergent: Purdue Says the Active Barely Matters
Purdue's finding is awkward for the aisle: prodiamine, pendimethalin and dithiopyr give equivalent control at the correct rate. The split decides it, not the brand.

Pre-Emergent Herbicide (liquid concentrate)
★★★★☆ 4/5
nuestra calificación editorial cómo puntuamos3.9/5 según 139 compradores en Amazon — su cifra, no la nuestra.
$38–$45
Precio habitual · 1 quart liquid concentrate; rate per label
Enlaces de afiliado — consulte nuestra divulgación. Las comisiones nunca influyen en los veredictos.
Pendimetalina en lugar de prodiamina, y la etiqueta nombra el cadillo — una maleza que la mayoría de los preventivos de crabgrass ni siquiera menciona.
Vale la pena conocerlo por una razón concreta: el cadillo. La mayoría de los preemergentes domésticos son prodiamina o ditiopir y sus etiquetas hablan de crabgrass; el cadillo es un problema de suelos arenosos en todo el Sur y el Medio Oeste bajo que se pasa por alto, y es genuinamente doloroso pisarlo. La pendimetalina es una dinitroanilina como la prodiamina, así que el mecanismo y la lógica de temporización son los mismos — debe estar aplicada antes de la germinación, lo que según Michigan State significa aplicar cuando el suelo a una profundidad de 0 a 2 pulgadas alcanza de forma constante los 50 a 55 °F. Dos advertencias prácticas. La pendimetalina es de un amarillo anaranjado intenso y mancha el hormigón, los adoquines y el calzado; manténgala fuera del pavimento y enjuague de inmediato todo lo que toque. Y la tabla de siembra de Purdue es más estricta con la pendimetalina que con casi ninguna otra: aplicaciones después de que el césped haya cerrado y con al menos cuatro cortes, lo que cierra la puerta a la resiembra durante más tiempo que un producto con prodiamina. El 3.9 sobre 139 valoraciones es modesto para la categoría, así que cómprelo por lo del cadillo y no como preventivo general de crabgrass, donde existen opciones mejor valoradas.
Tipo de producto
Pre-Emergent Herbicide (liquid concentrate)
Ingrediente activo
Pendimethalin 38.7% (microencapsulated)
Rango de precio
$38–$45
Cobertura
1 quart liquid concentrate; rate per label
Ideal para
Prevención de cadillo en céspedes arenosos del Sur y del Medio Oeste bajo, donde los preventivos de crabgrass corrientes no lo enumeran
nuestra calificación editorial
4 out of 5
Etiqueta leída en el PDF del titular del registro
EPA Reg. No. 70506-230-98985
Leímos la etiqueta impresa publicada por la empresa titular del registro. La EPA no aloja un PDF de esta, así que es el mejor texto disponible.
Label read 2026-08-05 from Ike's own published PDF. EPA Reg. No. 70506-230-98985 — three parts, so it is a distributor version of 70506-230 and may omit uses the base label carries. Pendimethalin 38.7%, other ingredients 61.3%, and one gallon contains 3.8 lb of MICROENCAPSULATED pendimethalin in an aqueous carrier — the encapsulated formulation is why this one does not stain like older pendimethalin products. Signal word CAUTION, not a restricted-use pesticide, and no state restriction appears anywhere on the label. Turf sites are broad and cover both families: Kentucky bluegrass, fine and tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, bentgrass and established Poa annua (non-greens and tees) on the cool-season side; bahiagrass, bermudagrass, buffalograss, centipedegrass, seashore paspalum, St. Augustinegrass and zoysiagrass on the warm-season side. The rate detail worth knowing is that the label caps RESIDENTIAL turf lower than commercial: 1.1 to 1.6 fl oz per 1,000 sq ft at home, against 1.1 to 2.3 fl oz for golf, commercial and other non-residential turf. Named weeds include sandbur, crabgrass, goosegrass, Poa annua, foxtail, barnyardgrass, fall panicum, oxalis, prostrate spurge, purslane, knotweed, henbit, chickweed and lawn burweed.
Where this page and the container disagree, the container wins — the label is the legal authority on rates and restrictions. How to read one yourself.
Contrastado con la presión real de enfermedades, malezas y plagas de cada estado.
Ventana de aplicación: Late February on the coast to mid-March in north Alabama — the earliest pre-emergent window of any state we cover
Ventana de aplicación: Largely beside the point: crabgrass and the summer annuals that drive pre-emergent programmes in the lower 48 are not the problem here, and a pre-emergent applied on a mainland schedule is money spent on an absent weed
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-February for summer weeds, and again late September for winter weeds germinating in the overseed
Ventana de aplicación: Early March in the south to early April in the Ozarks at soil 55°F
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-January (Los Angeles/San Diego) to late February (Sacramento/Bay Area) — before the last winter rains water it in for free
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — mid-April along the shoreline, into early May in the hills; forsythia dropping its blooms is the local cue
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — typically mid-March in Sussex and late March to early April in New Castle County, with a second application six to nine weeks later because one pass does not cover a Delaware season
Ventana de aplicación: Early February (Orlando/Tampa) to early March (Panhandle); South FL applies year-round for tropical weeds
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-February (Savannah/South GA) to early March (Metro Atlanta), with a second application about eight weeks later — the state is long enough north to south that one date cannot serve it
Ventana de aplicación: There is no single spring flush to time against — warm-season weeds germinate through much of the year, so pre-emergent here is a repeated programme on label intervals rather than a February or March decision
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — usually April in the Treasure Valley, May in the north and at elevation. Cool-season turf here grows fastest when soil sits at 55 to 65°F, which is the same signal
Ventana de aplicación: Late March at the Ohio River confluence to late April in Chicagoland — the widest single-state spread in the Midwest, and the reason calendar-based advice fails here
Ventana de aplicación: April, on soil temperature — and Purdue's note is that any nitrogen in a pre-emergent product should be slow-release, capped at 0.75 lb per 1,000 sq ft
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-April to early May at soil 55°F — a narrow, late window compared with the states south of here
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — typically late March to mid-April moving northwest, with a second application six to eight weeks later in the wetter east
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-March in the Jackson Purchase to early April in the mountains at soil 55°F — and over Inner Bluegrass karst the barrier is worth splitting into two applications, because the ground drains faster than the label assumes
Ventana de aplicación: Late February to mid-March, before soil warms past 55°F — the earliest window of any state we cover
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — mid to late May on the southern coast, June inland; north of Bangor crabgrass pressure is often low enough that the honest answer is to skip it
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-March on the Eastern Shore to mid-April in the mountains — forsythia bloom is the traditional Maryland signal (soil 55°F)
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-April on the coast to early May in the Berkshires at soil 55°F — forsythia is the working signal here
Ventana de aplicación: Late April (Metro Detroit/South) to mid-May (Up North), as soil reaches 55°F
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-May, as soil warms — the season opens later here than anywhere else we cover
Ventana de aplicación: Late February on the coast to mid-March in the north
Ventana de aplicación: Late March in the Bootheel to mid-April along the Iowa line — soil 55°F moves south to north across about three weeks
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches, which is generally May and can be late May at elevation — and crabgrass pressure in much of Montana is low enough that this is a decision rather than a default
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — usually late April in the south-east, into mid-May in the north and west
Ventana de aplicación: February in Las Vegas to April in the northern high desert
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — late April to early May on the Seacoast, and up to three weeks later in the north; crabgrass pressure itself falls off with elevation
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-April in the south to early May in the northwest, as soil reaches 55°F
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass and summer annual pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — February to early March in the southern valleys, April to May in the north. The state spans two months on this decision
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-April (Long Island/NYC) extending into early May (Buffalo/Upstate), as soil reaches 55°F
Ventana de aplicación: Early to mid-March in the Piedmont, when soil temps approach 55°F — earlier along the coast
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches, usually mid to late May — and crabgrass pressure here is genuinely lower than in the states to the south, so this is a decision rather than a routine
Ventana de aplicación: Late March along the Ohio River to late April in the Lake Erie snow belt at soil 55°F — a month of spread across one state
Ventana de aplicación: Early March in the south to early April in the panhandle at soil 55°F; on western sand, split the rate rather than trusting one pass to hold
Ventana de aplicación: Late February to March west of the Cascades — the earliest cool-season window anywhere, because the valley barely stops growing
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-April around Philadelphia to early May on the northern plateau at soil 55°F — three weeks of spread across fifty miles where the ridges rise, which is why a neighbour's timing is not yours
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent once soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — usually the second half of April on the bay and coastal towns, into early May inland
Ventana de aplicación: Early March on the coast to late March in the Upstate, before soil warms past 55°F
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches, generally mid-May — and pressure is lower here than in the corn-belt states, so it is a judgement rather than an annual purchase
Ventana de aplicación: Early March in Memphis to late March in Knoxville — soil 55°F sweeps west to east
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-February (Houston/San Antonio) to mid-March (Dallas/Panhandle), soil temps 55°F for crabgrass
Ventana de aplicación: Late March to mid-April along the Wasatch Front at soil 55°F
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — usually mid-May in the Champlain Valley and later in the hills; in the coldest towns crabgrass pressure is low enough that the question is whether to bother
Ventana de aplicación: Early March (Hampton Roads/Tidewater) to late March/early April (Northern VA/Richmond), as soil reaches 55°F
Ventana de aplicación: Mid-April to early May as soil reaches 55°F; crabgrass pressure is low west of the Cascades, where annual bluegrass and moss matter more
Ventana de aplicación: Crabgrass pre-emergent as soil holds 55°F at 2 inches — typically late March to early April in the valleys, into late April at elevation, with a second application six to nine weeks later
Ventana de aplicación: Late April to mid-May, as soil temperatures reach near 60°F for several consecutive days — forsythia bloom is the usual reminder
Common questions
Ike's Sandbur & Crabgrass Preventer, 1 Quart suele costar $38–$45 y cubre 1 quart liquid concentrate; rate per label.
Ike's Sandbur & Crabgrass Preventer, 1 Quart actúa sobre sandbur, crabgrass, goosegrass, annual bluegrass.
Pendimethalin 38.7% (microencapsulated), registrado con el n.º de registro EPA 70506-230-98985.
Mancha el hormigón, los adoquines y el calzado de amarillo anaranjado intenso — manténgala fuera del pavimento
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Weed Control
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Weed Control
Spring weed control is decided by soil temperature, not the calendar — a pre-emergent applied two weeks late does nothing at all. The trigger, and the plan.
Boletín de Lawn Health
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