Prowl Herbicide for Bermuda Grass Hay Before it Greens Up

[Chuckie]

Anyone else using Prowl H20 for a pre emergent in Bermuda grass hay? The guy that cuts really good horse hay uses it all time and when I ask him how much he uses, he says all that his wallet will let him use. Ha-ha! I was hoping to hear a specific amount that worked and stuck around for a little while.

 

[BC]

What weeds are you trying to prevent?

 

[littletom]

People here use it in orchard grass. Be carful that stuff. We used to use it alot in tobacco. It stays in ground a very long time. It is hard to get things reestablished after using it. A field my dad in tobacco when i was a kid for years and had prowl on for years. It took years to get a stand of grass back on. I have freinds that grow grain say they can fly drone over fields and see exacty where the prowl tobacco ground was in fields looking at corn. I grow tobacco for a living and don't use it yeild killer. It works really well to keep things from coming up. I would be very hesitant to go over labeled rate. For what you may want to do down the road.

 

[Chuckie]

I have Bermuda in the ground and has developed a good root as the field is a few years old. My plan is to mix 2,4-D, and Prowl with the Roud up. I have mares tails, curly doc, Johnson grass. velvet grass, and some odds an ends that I did not get figured out. One is Broom sedge grass but I will have to have stop him myself. I am going to use 2,4 D to remove those odd looking board leaves. Going to rope wick the johnson Grass. Ugh! I will rope wick it out of my life. It will soon be long gone.

 

[Mrcopier]

So you are trying to kill everything to the ground?

 

[Brute 23]

You might ask about Pastora. It does a good job on Bermuda fields and will get JG.

 

[Chuckie]

I want to stop weed seeds from sprouting. I have an established Bermuda field that was let go for a couple of years, and I am about to get it back in shape. I plan on putting down Prowl, Round Up and 2,4-D for the Round up resistant crap like mares tails and curly dock. I mowed this field high all last summer to take the wind out of the Johnson grass stolens, and put the sunlight back on the Bermuda. I know it is still there and will be like fire ants boiling out of their mound if you step on it if I don't go full force against it. So, I want to fight the seed that has fallen to the ground. Then I have my rope wick ready to knock it back when it gets just a little taller than the Bermuda grass.

I have some Pastora, as it tells that you have to get the first cutting of Bermuda before you use it. I wonder if using Pastore is just to knock it back each year, or does it really kill it out all together?

 

[crossbreed]

You might ask about Pastora. It does a good job on Bermuda fields and will get JG.

So Prowl is a pre-emergent and Pastora is a post correct? Seems hard to get the d@mned things spotted at early age for the Pastora

 

[Brute 23]

So Prowl is a pre-emergent and Pastora is a post correct? Seems hard to get the d@mned things spotted at early age for the Pastora

Sounds like it. I'm not familiar Prowl but it sounds like bad stuff I would not want to fool with.

Thought Pastora would be a good alternative to consider.

I've never spot treated JG or Bermuda fields. If you want a clean field you pretty much have to apply it to the whole field, ime, or it tends to just reappear some where else in the field.

 

[Chuckie]

Sorry for answering this late. Prowl is supposed to stop the seeds from germinating, and Pastora is to be used after the second cutting of Bermuda from what I can understand. Good grief, that is half of the hay season gone. I have the Pastora, but had decided to find something better and have been reading labels on Chemicals as a hobby now. Ha-ha!! It seems that way as I come to the computer to learn about what I am doing. Then sometimes the instructions are not so clear.

I did want to burn everything in that field except for the Bermuda grass. The Blackberry, Horse nettle is so thick that I may as well have prickly pear cactus covering the field with a little bit of Bermuda grass. The briars are taking over. Then there is trumpet vine in just about every square yard in large patches. Dogbane Hemp which is told to be poison to livestock. And Johnson Grass wall to wall. Some areas extremely thick and some areas it is just beginning to take over. So I am spending a lot of money on this field to gain control of it. It is horrible. But lots of Bermuda stolens everywhere and will come back if I take care of it this year. It was sprigged around 2004 or 2005, and held tight for so long.