The tip can be rotated to spray upwards. I spray normally and then rotate the tip upwards and take upward-sweeping strokes to get the undersides or the main stem.

If you have Ryobi tools, specifically the One+ 18 volt cordless line of tools that has about 30-35 attachments or tools that use the same battery, they have a garden sprayer that has a tuneable tip like a pump sprayer. You can reach deep inside the canopy and angle the wand to where you want the spray to go.

The garden sprayer has been discontinued but you can occasionally find them on ebay as refurbs. They even sell a chainsaw, weedwhacker, hedge trimmer, pruner, etc, all using the same battery.

Hope this helps.

I just contacted Ortho's customer service about their cursed Dial and Spray hose-end sprayers because the two I recently purchased were complete duds. They wouldn't spray but just dribbled out of the sprayer in the front and back, and furthermore the container quickly filled the rest of the way up with water, diluting the Ortho Garden Disease Control and the entire 8 ounces of Bt I'd combined in the first one.

I had to talk to a supervisor who finally agreed to reimburse me for the two sprayers and the wasted fungicide and Bt. She did ask for the Lot # that's located on the bottom of the sprayers (it was the same for both of the ones I bought), and told me that they'd had a lot of complaints about some of the sprayers that seem to be related to the Lot #s.

Anyway, test the sprayers with water first, which I didn't do. Since I couldn't spray my tomatoes with either the Daconil or the BT, they've really deteriorated from what I think is Septoria and from the armyworms I've seen. I wish large corporations would test their products before sending them out to be put on the shelves. If they fail, it can be very costly for the purchaser who depends on the products.

Anney, the only problems I've ever had with the sprayer is the trigger spring, which is plastic. it's not a real spring but more like the plastic bending and snapping back like a spring. Sometimes it breaks where it flexes. When that happens, just call Ortho, give them the # on the sprayer and tell them how much you paid for it and they will send you a check.

Did you just pour the Daconil & Bt straight into the sprayer without dilluting it? Daconil/chlorothalonil is too thick to spray straight, it needs to be diluted with water to make it thin enough to spray. So if so, that may be why you had problems and lucky they are replacing/refunding everything!

I usually make 32oz I think, so 8 TBS of Daconil and the rest water to 32oz mark. I just set the dial to 4oz.

If you have a thin enough product, you can pour it directly into the cup and set the dial to whatever ratio recommended, like 1 tsp or 1 TBS or 1oz or whatever. Water never enters the cup. Therefore you can pour whatever thin enough product you use back into the original container when done.

If you use powder fertilizers like Miracle-Gro or whatever brand, use the same 4oz procedure. Mix, say, 2 TBS of MG for Tomatoes to the remainder of 8oz of water and set the dial to 4oz. This will apply 1TBS per gallon.

Hope this helps.

I just mixed up a gallon of daconil using concentrate. However, I only ended up using about half of it on my plants after giving them a good spraying.

Can I save it until my next application next week? Does it go bad quickly after diluted? Just want to make sure I keep my plants protected...

Thanks for the help!

RB