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Re:Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less ch... by MikePlacid on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @09:52PM (#33634356)
How do you know they are not thriving already?
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Re:Sniper robot treats 500k plants per hour with 95% less ch... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday November 17, 2022 @02:14PM (#33644093)
All competition removed.

This sprayer is designed to promote the growth of {everything it doesn't kill}. Those 'weeds' will have as much benefit from the spot-spraying as the crop. Which is either significant, or it's negligible (and this sprayer is useless, so probably not that)

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