ROCKET® Cotton Harvest Activator improves boll opening, defoliation, and earliness. It can lower overall defoliation and boll opening costs by allowing pesticides to work more efficiently.
ROCKET® improves penetration and translocation and then disrupts the hormonal transport system of the leaf that inhibits leaf abscission which prepares the plant for the active ingredient it is used with, whether Def, Dropp, Ginstar, Prep or others.
ROCKET® has no activity when used by itself, and acts by interfering with auxin transport.
ROCKET™ does not open bolls but allows other defoliants not known to open bolls to do so. Research has shown that $9 per acre is saved in higher lint weight and quality for every day gained at harvest.
Using ROCKET™ Cotton Adjuvant with Def™ is worth $30-$50 per acre more than Def™ alone by boosting earliness, activity and efficiency. Savings with Ethephon formulations and other tank mixes are only slightly lower.
Increased yields are another advantage of ROCKET™. The cotton plant does not abort top bolls but opens them for ~5% increase in yield. By setting the plant up for maturation, ROCKET™ allows the plant to retain more bolls and open them than treatments without ROCKET™.
