Nuked a Durana plot!

yellow lab said:

I have a Durana plot that was 5 years old. The weeds and grass had taken over the plot really bad. I have sprayed with 2,4 DB and Arrow herbicides and was still losing the plot.

I sprayed the plot with a strong mix of glyphosate and mowed everything to the ground. The plot looks dead as can be.

I am going to see if the Durana will reemerge this fall with cooler weather and some more rain.

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I'm betting the Durana will come back strong. The stuff is like Steven Seagal! [wink]

I sprayed some after it had seeded out and it came back great, yours should too

That's good to heard that the Durana will make a come back.

I will post some pics as it starts back in the fall.

Are you planning on scratching it with a disk or just leave it as is?

treefarmer said:

Are you planning on scratching it with a disk or just leave it as is?

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Was going to leave it as is.

After seeing a drought and 100 degree temps a couple of years ago burn the plots up in August and some record cold temps this past winter, my Durana plots have all come back strong.

I hope that my test plot of Durana, "will laugh off" a good dose of round up![biggrin]

yellow lab said:

Was going to leave it as is.

After seeing a drought and 100 degree temps a couple of years ago burn the plots up in August and some record cold temps this past winter, my Durana plots have all come back strong.

I hope that my test plot of Durana, "will laugh off" a good dose of round up![biggrin]

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Let us know how this turns out. I was thinking that maybe come September or October it would be a good time to cut in some fertilize and maybe lime to get those Durana seed that have been falling for year to come to life.

From my results so far, I'll be planting more when I can get the pH right on some fields.

Just let it be, it will come back if you disc it, n
But it may stimulate weeds more

Okay, just to make sure I'm on the same sheet of music...
I've got a bad case of grasses and some broadleaf and due to the weather I haven't sprayed.
My clover was as thick as thieves in May.
Deer are in what's green every day. I want to clean it up.
SOOO... Knock it all out with glyphosate ASAP?
I can't find Poast anywhere and I have plenty of glyphosate and 2-4db

I'll burn it up first chance I get if I get the go ahead from the gurus

trophybowhunter1 said:

Okay, just to make sure I'm on the same sheet of music...
I've got a bad case of grasses and some broadleaf and due to the weather I haven't sprayed.
My clover was as thick as thieves in May.
Deer are in what's green every day. I want to clean it up.
SOOO... Knock it all out with glyphosate ASAP?
I can't find Poast anywhere and I have plenty of glyphosate and 2-4db

I'll burn it up first chance I get if I get the go ahead from the gurus

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One of my Durana plots has become overrun with many types of grasses and weeds over the years. I have been using Arrow and 2,4 DB with little success.

The strong dose of glyphosate is the last resort. My hope is that the Durana will recover. If not, I will replant the plot and start over.

You may want to want and see how my "test" goes. I will post updates to this thread.

It will come back,, but it might be spotty.. I'd leave the best half and plant the worst side in wheat,, by the end of next spring when you mow the dead straw you won't ever know any of it had been nuked.. Other wise.. I would disk very lightly the end of AUG, warm season, grass/weeds will be about over for the most part..

8-16 oz of clethodim will knock out any kind of grass. You might have to spray a few times each year to get each flush of grass though. If you spray roundup you're still gonna get new weeds after the very next rain, but your clover will be gone.

wingman said:

8-16 oz of clethodim will knock out any kind of grass. You might have to spray a few times each year to get each flush of grass though. If you spray roundup you're still gonna get new weeds after the very next rain, but your clover will be gone.

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In my experience with Clover is that when you spray arrow/select (clethodium) and Poast and the like is that you control those grasses that then make way for other weeds and such in their absence. And like Yellow Lab pointed out you get weeds and stuff that 24-db and grass selective herbicides just won't control any longer. In my experience clethodium/grass selective herbicides will barely control Bermuda grass....and only then with repeated sprayings. Those herbicides will do nothing for nutsedges. There are some others. If you have a clover field for a long period of time you will experience exactly what Yellow Lab is talking about. It is dang tough to get control of Horsenettle...same for ground cherry (in my experience spraying 24-db)...the list goes on in some cases.

Clethodim will do a much better job on Bermuda than glyphosate will, but growing season sprayings are much less effective than a fall application.

I understand about stands of broadleaf weeds, though. Sometimes it takes a couple years of growing something else to control those kinds of problems, then switch back to your original planting.

A plot rotation is always better than years of one kind of plot. I've been growing sunflowers on the same field for 13 years now and some types of weeds just keep getting more numerous. The farmer in me says it's time for a change to a couple years of RR soybeans, followed by a couple years of milo, then back to sunflowers.

My next piece of equipment will be a wick bar for my atv. I think that'll really help in the clover plots. Just wipe some gramoxone or glyphosate on the taller problem weeds and the shorter clover can keep on growing.

Wingman

I haven't bought one of this kind, but it seems priced right and would be perfect for an ATV

http://www.agrisupply.com/m/string-wing-5-ft-rope-wick-chemical-applicator/p/71934/

Thanks. I've been looking at this one. http://www.bowmanmanufacturing.com/products/rope-wick-applicators-atv-mount/

The spray rig on my ATV is 15 years old and they made it.

I like that one, especially the holding bracket.
It is nice to be able to tilt it back so the wicks lean back and you make sure any excess doesnt drip while you are going from spot to spot.
We made some mounts for a larger one to mount on pallet forks on a tractor, all you had to do was tilt it and put it at desired height

For you folks planting clover, do you come back in the fall and plant oats/wheat? If so, do you disk over the clover?

scott said:

I'm betting the Durana will come back strong. The stuff is like Steven Seagal! [wink]

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LoL! Steven... Chuck... something like that!