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Dow sendero on coastal bermuda?
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<blockquote data-quote="bird dog" data-source="post: 1563303" data-attributes="member: 5381"><p>On the jumping cactus, there doesn't seem to be a lot of testing on that one species but they "think" it will work. </p><p></p><p>This is what I read</p><p></p><p>Systemic herbicides penetrate the "skin" of the cactus pads or seep into the roots and poison the plant as they taint the circulatory system. The Texas Department of Natural Resources recommends herbicides containing picloram for waxy cacti such as prickly pear. The herbicide should also be effective on jumping cholla, though it may take years to completely kill the plant. Some systemic herbicides may be used as a soil drench to penetrate the root system more quickly.</p><p></p><p>I had a place that had a lot of cactus of different types but mostly prickly pear. I sprayed it three years in a row in the dead of winter. It was easy then to see the plant and what I had missed the year before. After the third year probably 90% of the cactus was dead or dying. A couple months after spraying, the plants that are effected will start changing color as they die. Its pretty obvious which one you have done and which ones you missed. </p><p></p><p>Surmount is my favorite (non-mequite) herbicide to spot spray with because of the variety of stuff I have to kill which is cactus, blackberry vines, cedar elm trees and green briar. I do the mesquite separately.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bird dog, post: 1563303, member: 5381"] On the jumping cactus, there doesn't seem to be a lot of testing on that one species but they "think" it will work. This is what I read Systemic herbicides penetrate the "skin" of the cactus pads or seep into the roots and poison the plant as they taint the circulatory system. The Texas Department of Natural Resources recommends herbicides containing picloram for waxy cacti such as prickly pear. The herbicide should also be effective on jumping cholla, though it may take years to completely kill the plant. Some systemic herbicides may be used as a soil drench to penetrate the root system more quickly. I had a place that had a lot of cactus of different types but mostly prickly pear. I sprayed it three years in a row in the dead of winter. It was easy then to see the plant and what I had missed the year before. After the third year probably 90% of the cactus was dead or dying. A couple months after spraying, the plants that are effected will start changing color as they die. Its pretty obvious which one you have done and which ones you missed. Surmount is my favorite (non-mequite) herbicide to spot spray with because of the variety of stuff I have to kill which is cactus, blackberry vines, cedar elm trees and green briar. I do the mesquite separately. [/QUOTE]
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