Spraying farm for trees

[cowman82]

I am a true believer in Sendero. I wiped out whole stands of mesquite with great results - I am guessing about a 95% kill rate. However, I didn't use a drone or broadcast sprayer. I used a hand wand from the sprayer on back of my tractor. (Also had a small tank on a SxS that worked. Sendero notes it works for honey and black locust. It doesn't harm any of the other trees and plants.

The other miracle herbicide I discovered was Tordon on cactus. I had literally hundreds of acres of pear cactus that we had aerial sprayed. A dog could run through a pasture it was so bad. First year the cactus looked sick. Second year it had about rotted away. Third year - nothing to see and zero regrowth.

FWIW

Thanks. i'll check it out. sounds like they both worked pretty good for you. i'm glad, b/c things like that make it NOT FUN to ranch.

 

[Lucky]

If I remember correctly Honey Locust is a legume and GrazonNext kills legumes. We always spray it late in late June or July.

 

[Brute 23]

The timing on all that stuff never works out. You have to spray weeds in the early spring and woody plants in the fall. Good luck with that. You wait until fall and the weeds are so bad you can't get to the woody plants.

Spray it all in the spring. It may not kill the woody stuff dead but it will slow it down. It will will keep the pasture clean until you can see what is greening back out. Then you can spit spray it.

It's not the most efficient by the book but if you keep the leaves burned off long enough any thing will die.

 

[cowman82]

The timing on all that stuff never works out. You have to spray weeds in the early spring and woody plants in the fall. Good luck with that. You wait until fall and the weeds are so bad you can't get to the woody plants.

Spray it all in the spring. It may not kill the woody stuff dead but it will slow it down. It will will keep the pasture clean until you can see what is greening back out. Then you can spit spray it.

It's not the most efficient by the book but if you keep the leaves burned off long enough any thing will die.

So should I spray the whole place with grazeon in the spring here and again in early july?

thinking about have the drone guy do it, but if I have to spray twice that will be pretty expensive compared to me buying a sprayer and doing it myself.

the drone guy was saying to spray duracore and remedy at a cost of around 22/ac. (chemical only)

 

[bird dog]

If you have enough time and money, knock yourself out and spray it twice. That will definitely speed up the process but make sure you read the label as some chemicals limit the amount of their main ingredient to only so much a year. Spraying brush when its hot works well. Buy the time its hot here, most weeds have slowed down their growth and your chemical will not work as well. I usually quit in June whether I am finished or not on pasture spraying but may continue with the brush doing more spot type spraying.

 

[Brute 23]

So should I spray the whole place with grazeon in the spring here and again in early july?

thinking about have the drone guy do it, but if I have to spray twice that will be pretty expensive compared to me buying a sprayer and doing it myself.

the drone guy was saying to spray duracore and remedy at a cost of around 22/ac. (chemical only)

It's hard for me to say exactly what would work best there, but I and others in our area have had good luck clearing out pastures by boomspraying or using a helicopter or some thing of that nature and doing the entire place with Grazon Next XL. You may want to sure up that recommendation with a local person for your exact plants. I would do it in early spring to prevents any new growth and to get your weeds and small woody plants or what ever. Basically let it get what ever it will get.

Then we go back and do a basil treatment with like remedy and diesel on what ever woody plants are trying to green back out. Last year I had a couple people running on atvs or sxs just spot spraying and doing that with like 15g sprayers.

In my experience if you spray the entire property for several years and get it cleaned up the you can switch over to only spot spraying the new bushes every year.

I went to seminar deal on the drones last year and was not impressed. The application cost was extremely expensive and I was not impressed with the volumes they put out. My experience has always been the more fluid you put out with the chemical the better results you would get. My small sprayer is around 12 gpa and I think the boom sprayers push up around 30 gpa. The only benefit I saw to the drones, at that time, was odd shaped properties with trees or ROWs basically getting in places that might be difficult for other pieces of equipment. That technology is probably changing fast so it may be better now.

 

[greybeard]

I am a true believer in Sendero. I wiped out whole stands of mesquite with great results - I am guessing about a 95% kill rate. However, I didn't use a drone or broadcast sprayer. I used a hand wand from the sprayer on back of my tractor. (Also had a small tank on a SxS that worked. Sendero notes it works for honey and black locust. It doesn't harm any of the other trees and plants.

The other miracle herbicide I discovered was Tordon on cactus. I had literally hundreds of acres of pear cactus that we had aerial sprayed. A dog could run through a pasture it was so bad. First year the cactus looked sick. Second year it had about rotted away. Third year - nothing to see and zero regrowth.

FWIW

Sendero doesn't work on much else that I tried it on. Even tho it's labeled for a lot other than Mesquite. yes on mesquite but no on tallow, gum, locust, yaupon & pine.

 

[cowman82]

thank you all for the advice, it helped out a lot.