Mesquite Season Has Arrived... 10 Days Later Than 2024

[Spot & Bubby]

Yes it will. Most of the time it takes multiple applications. Soak it good.

I'm guessing application is to bury the wand as far into the middle of the plant as possible and load it up?

 

[bird dog]

Yes. If possible walk around the plant in shove the wand into a bunch of the center most flutes. I had a thick batch of them in a ditch that were hard to get to. I narrowed down the wand to just rain down on to them as much as I could then opened it back up and soaked the outside. It took about three sprays over a summer and then to get a handle on them. There were still a few the next spring but they were easy to eliminate.

BTW I just used a regular surfactant as I didn't have one that I wanted to mess up with diesel.

 

[Spot & Bubby]

Yes. If possible walk around the plant in shove the wand into a bunch of the center most flutes. I had a thick batch of them in a ditch that were hard to get to. I narrowed down the wand to just rain down on to them as much as I could then opened it back up and soaked the outside. It took about three sprays over a summer and then to get a handle on them. There were still a few the next spring but they were easy to eliminate.

BTW I just used a regular surfactant as I didn't have one that I wanted to mess up with diesel.

Like Li 700? That's what I use on the trees.

 

[Texas Ranch Hand]

just to update this thread because I noticed in the neighbors pasture across the county road from us, he started spraying mesquite already too. Whatever they used burned the heck out of them and the grass around them, I'm kinda curious as to what it was and will be watching to see if it works....I'm guessing they used glysphophate though, which is just not very effective on them.

I've used the cut/stump method on huisache with Diesel/Remedy which had a 100% kill rate in the section I did, they were all 12'-16' tall so it would have taken a ton of sendero to cover all the leaves.

Sendero. It doesn't kill grass and is about as good as it gets on mesquite.