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Post by biglakebass on Jun 18, 2017 9:43:44 GMT -6
Good idea. I can buy in arizona where its 212 degrees.
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Post by wklman on Jun 18, 2017 10:23:47 GMT -6
Good idea. I can buy in arizona where its 212 degrees. but you won't have to worry about thistles here. |
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Post by Freeborn on Jul 18, 2020 18:38:01 GMT -6
Anybody else seeing allot of thistle this year? I have a bumper crop growing on my place. I just wrapped up spraying 4 25 gallon tanks. 2 tanks with Stinger and 2 tanks with Milestone. I use Stinger around my crabapple and spruce trees and milestone in my prairie grass.
It’s amazing how thistle can spread considering the competition from the prairie grass.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 18, 2020 18:41:40 GMT -6
100 gallons of thistle control herbicide?
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Post by Freeborn on Jul 18, 2020 18:47:59 GMT -6
100 gallons of thistle control herbicide? Yep, spread over 50 acres. Outbreaks mostly where it’s wet but all over the place. I probably covered 4-5 acres if it was contiguous. |
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Post by smsmith on Jul 18, 2020 18:52:23 GMT -6
100 gallons of thistle control herbicide? Yep, spread over 50 acres. Outbreaks mostly where it’s wet but all over the place. I probably covered 4-5 acres if it was contiguous. Holy cow. At least you're doing something. Nobody around here does shit for controlling thistle |
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Post by Freeborn on Jul 18, 2020 19:01:01 GMT -6
Yep, spread over 50 acres. Outbreaks mostly where it’s wet but all over the place. I probably covered 4-5 acres if it was contiguous. Holy cow. At least you're doing something. Nobody around here does shit for controlling thistle It’s part of my CRP contract. Agree most people don’t do anything with it. I just don’t want it to get so bad I lose control of it and then can’t renew my CRP contract. I hate spraying it because it’s always right next other Forbes I’d like to keep. It’s amazing how well it spreads while Forbes take forever to spread. i hope the milestone works, it’s my first time using it. I went with 1/2 once per gallon. No wind today but humid, Polaris and me was getting hot. |
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Post by smsmith on Jul 18, 2020 19:04:44 GMT -6
Milestone kicks thistle ass...I rarely use it around here anymore because of the residual, but if a guy wants to nuke thistles....it gets the job done
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Post by biglakebass on Jul 18, 2020 19:09:56 GMT -6
Our thistles are extremely rare now..... thank god.
Maybe after many years of various battles against them, the war is finally won.
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Post by smsmith on Jul 18, 2020 19:17:21 GMT -6
Our thistles are extremely rare now..... thank god. Maybe after many years of various battles against them, the war is finally won. That would indicate neighbors are actually doing something for thistle control. Literally across the road from my place is 50ish acres of pasture with zero thistle control...zero. Pretty tough for me to even come close to breaking even much less winning in terms of the thistle war. |
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 18, 2020 19:28:30 GMT -6
I've got one small unexplained patch of canada thistle where I've never done anything. Any place else, it's popped up because of disturbance. Where I burned my brush pile last winter, the first ring of growth outward from the ashes is solid CT and impressive. I've still got a little patch next to the lawn where the excavator pulled a stump and left exposed subsoil. It doesn't spread by me and the gold finch like it, so I leave it be.
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Post by Freeborn on Jul 18, 2020 19:29:40 GMT -6
Our thistles are extremely rare now..... thank god. Maybe after many years of various battles against them, the war is finally won. That would indicate neighbors are actually doing something for thistle control. Literally across the road from my place is 50ish acres of pasture with zero thistle control...zero. Pretty tough for me to even come close to breaking even much less winning in terms of the thistle war. I see that all the time, one guy looks like he’s trying to grow the stuff, whole damn field is thistle, while your trying to kill it.. Ill spray again next year. If you hit it a couple years in a row it seems to kill it back pretty well. |
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Post by biglakebass on Jul 18, 2020 19:33:19 GMT -6
Neighbor to the west is a single 72 year old lady... she hasnt been on the land in 40 years i bet. Her 120 is all pastured but lots of woods.
I should look closer to see how much thistle is there.
We have all water on north. East is solid oak forest and a 30 acre crp field for 20 years.
South is all pasture. Not much thistle. He may be managing his.
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Post by benmnwi on Jul 18, 2020 21:40:44 GMT -6
About 8 acres of my tillable behind my house was accepted into crp for next year, so I've been working harder at thistles, burdock and random other junk weeds. Hopefully that saves me time in the long run. I'm lucky that I live here and can take a hoe on the atv and take care of most issues by hand.
The bad stuff sure can spread quick under the right conditions.
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