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Pigweed
Aug 6, 2021 13:57:19 GMT -6
Post by Foggy on Aug 6, 2021 13:57:19 GMT -6
^ I'm taking the 5 foot wide unit and I'm good with that choice. will nuke some ground soon, and plan to be no tilling some seed in ten days. My new BIL is a bonafide expert in this stuff. I just got off the phone with him after running these things past him. He is familiar with my land and what I am doing. He thought I was on a great path toward getting this back on track. I got lots to learn about agronomy.....no doubt, so thanks to this forum for helping me back on track. FORE!
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Post by mnaaron on Aug 6, 2021 17:04:38 GMT -6
Many county SWCDs rent out their no till drills for around $10 acre give or take. Just sharing in case people didn’t know that.
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Pigweed
Aug 6, 2021 19:20:55 GMT -6
Post by Foggy on Aug 6, 2021 19:20:55 GMT -6
I hAVE sprayed my pigweed plots three times so far this year with Interline....but it keeps coming back...tho to a lesser extent. Had about an hour that I could spend at my land today.....so I spot sprayed a few remaining plants.....and took some pics to help identify this stuff. Going to spray one more time in a few days (?). Then spray some crops with roundup in a attempt to get ready for the new NT Drill. ^^The two pics above were pulled at my shed....and must have been dragged in with machines....or from seed spillage? Some was missed on last spray two weeks ago....or has grown this much in two weeks. I spot sprayed what I could in an hour A few large ones slipped by. A band of pigweed left in this bean field attempt....due to a sprayer nozzle issue. Will get on this in a few days. More that slipped by and some that are nuked....but seed heads remain. ARE THESE SEEDS VIABLE?
A collard patch is free of pigweed.....but need rain....BAD. Maybe it will make it? One can hope!
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Post by smsmith on Aug 6, 2021 19:25:00 GMT -6
your first two pics look like classic redroot pigweed to me.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 6, 2021 19:39:12 GMT -6
your first two pics look like classic redroot pigweed to me. Seems to me I have a few different varieties. I printed off a pretty good guide and need to spend some time with that and these pics tommorow. One problem for me is that I am color-blind, and cannot recognize some of this chit from the other. (as if life is not hard enough....lol). It likely won't make a whole lot of difference.....except in choices of chemicals (and the cost of same). One way or the other.....I'm going no till. Organic raised deer is my new mantra. .
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Post by Catscratch on Aug 6, 2021 20:25:34 GMT -6
Some reading for you Foggy. Plants that have a seed head need to be removed from the field. Should be sprayed before it's 3" tall. This is for the Palmer a. that we have down here, might not be what you have. Im guessing you have plenty of seed in your bank already and the only way to treat it long term is through either a disciplined spray program or through diversity and crowding them out. No bare dirt. I've found it very easy to get rid of the stuff in my plots. Constantly pulling it out of my driveway and gravel yard border though. agfaxweedsolutions.com/2017/06/05/pigweed-escapes-5-tips-dealing-worst-case-situations/
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Pigweed
Aug 6, 2021 20:55:54 GMT -6
Post by Foggy on Aug 6, 2021 20:55:54 GMT -6
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Post by Foggy on Aug 7, 2021 11:36:05 GMT -6
My new BIL sent me this. I think it will help me identify this stuff.
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Pigweed
Aug 14, 2021 8:53:41 GMT -6
Post by Foggy on Aug 14, 2021 8:53:41 GMT -6
It looks like I got a very good kill on some pigweed that escaped my last attempt at nuking it.....which was before my wife went into the hospital. Now I have some dead / standing pigweeds in relatively small areas. MY QUeSTION: ARE THOSE SEED HEADS STILL VIABLE SEEDS?? SHOULD I HAND HARVEST THAT CHIT AND BURN 'EM? I think I know the answer...but thought I better ask it.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 14, 2021 8:57:17 GMT -6
It looks like I got a very good kill on some pigweed that escaped my last attempt at nuking it.....which was before my wife went into the hospital. Now I have some dead / standing pigweeds in relatively small areas. MY QUeSTION: ARE THOSE SEED HEADS STILL VIABLE SEEDS?? SHOULD I HAND HARVEST THAT CHIT AND BURN 'EM? I think I know the answer...but thought I better ask it. I have read that the seed heads will still produce viable seeds. If you can remove them and burn them, that would be best practice
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Pigweed
Aug 14, 2021 9:33:48 GMT -6
Post by Foggy on Aug 14, 2021 9:33:48 GMT -6
It looks like I got a very good kill on some pigweed that escaped my last attempt at nuking it.....which was before my wife went into the hospital. Now I have some dead / standing pigweeds in relatively small areas. MY QUeSTION: ARE THOSE SEED HEADS STILL VIABLE SEEDS?? SHOULD I HAND HARVEST THAT CHIT AND BURN 'EM? I think I know the answer...but thought I better ask it. I have read that the seed heads will still produce viable seeds. If you can remove them and burn them, that would be best practice Thanks Stu....your the best.
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Pigweed
Sept 4, 2021 12:13:31 GMT -6
Post by Foggy on Sept 4, 2021 12:13:31 GMT -6
FWIW...my pigweed/lambsquarters/water hemp is apparently not the roundup resistant type (yet anyway). Also...I don't think the stuff will "run it's course". If you let a field of that shit produce and set seed, you'll have it around pretty much for perpetuity. Deer do browse all of the pigweed family here, so I guess if you want to let it go it does have some value (until the first frost anyway) Here is a great video on controlling weeds and growth in soybeans with a cover crop of rye. Here Is another great video to identify pigweed varies :Redroot Pigweed vs Waterhemp.
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