Vivando
Vivando is a fungicide used for controlling cobweb mould in mushrooms. It also has off-label EAMU approvals for use on grapes and hops to control powdery mildew.
Benefits
- Proven active ingredient in the EU
- Long term preventive effect
- Optimal protection of fruit growth through unique vapour phase
- Rainfast after one hour on outdoor crops
Why Vivando?
Product profile
Active ingredient(s) | 500 g/l metrafenone |
Formulation | Suspension concentrate (SC) |
Pack size | 1 litre in outers of ten |
Crops | Mushroom |
Disease activity | Cobweb (Dactylium dendroides) |
Maximum individual dose | 10 litres per hectare (1 ml/m2) |
Maximum number of treatments | One |
Latest time of application | 10 days before harvest |
Water volume | 1500 litres per hectare (150 ml/m2) |
Aquatic buffer zone | None |
Why Vivando?
The active ingredient, Metrafenone, has a unique multisite mode of action and is the first fungicide approved for hops, mushrooms and grapes in the UK in the benzophenone chemical class. This makes it perfect as one of the building blocks for your resistance management programme.
Mushrooms
Vivando in Mushrooms is used to control cobweb mould in mushrooms.

Grapes
Vivando gives highly effective control of powdery mildew in grapes.
Powdery Mildew is fungal problem in grapes and is caused by the fungal pathogen Erysiphe necator and is an ash-grey to white powdery growth on green tissue of the vine.
Crops | Maximum Individual Dose | Maximum Number of Applications per Crop | Pre-harvest Interval | Water Rate |
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Grapevines | 0.32 L/Ha | 3 | 28 days | 400 -1600L/Ha |

Hops
Vivando is highly effective controlling powdery mildew in hops.
Powdery mildew can occur on all green tissue of the hop bine, including the stems, leaves, flowers, and hop cones
Crops | Maximum Individual Dose | Maximum Number of Applications per Crop | Pre-harvest Interval | Water Rate |
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Hops | 0.66 L/Ha | 2 | 3 days | 800 – 3300 L/Ha |

Effectiveness of Vivando
