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When to start using Grazon and fertilizer on a mesquite filled pasture treated with Sendero
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<blockquote data-quote="Brute 23" data-source="post: 1616410" data-attributes="member: 6291"><p>Can you drive over the pasture with a sprayer or will you be hand spraying all of it? </p><p></p><p>The shredding is not a big deal. Some times you have to do it to get them manageable. You need full coverage with most of the stuff you are naming so some times you have to knock them back. They want these big full grown bushes because they can be easier to kill the first go round but Im not going to leave big bushes standing that I can't drive my sprayer over just to hand spray them all. In a lot of cases that's not logistically possible. I personally knock them back with the shredder and then start spraying annually. They may take a couple years to completely kill down but you are going to be spraying for weeds any ways and you have 15 years of seed bank to deal.</p><p></p><p>How I have personally done it is I would wait until the mesquites are greened out and growing, some of your normal weeds have come up, you have good moisture, maybe a little on the way, and spray 2pts/ac of Grazon Next HL. I can get 80%+ kill the first shot with my boom less sprayer like that. The kill will depend on how thick the grass and brush is. The thicker it is the lower your kill rate will be because its harder to get complete coverage. If you have a bunch of old grass piled around the bush it will block the poison getting to the bush so I would burn it asap before spring. I would follow up later in the year and hand spray out some of the stuff above where the sprayer can reach that is still green. </p><p></p><p>I would do that the first year, then go back to the recommended 1.5/ac annually after that. Depending on how your kill is the 2nd or 3rd year I would burn it or shred it down. Dead mean you can kick it with your foot and it breaks off at the ground. The good thing is mesquite is easy to kill compared to most brush.</p><p></p><p>There are probably better ways to do it but I know that works. In 2-3 years I can clean a pasture out like that and just go to annual maintenance.. :tiphat:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brute 23, post: 1616410, member: 6291"] Can you drive over the pasture with a sprayer or will you be hand spraying all of it? The shredding is not a big deal. Some times you have to do it to get them manageable. You need full coverage with most of the stuff you are naming so some times you have to knock them back. They want these big full grown bushes because they can be easier to kill the first go round but Im not going to leave big bushes standing that I can't drive my sprayer over just to hand spray them all. In a lot of cases that's not logistically possible. I personally knock them back with the shredder and then start spraying annually. They may take a couple years to completely kill down but you are going to be spraying for weeds any ways and you have 15 years of seed bank to deal. How I have personally done it is I would wait until the mesquites are greened out and growing, some of your normal weeds have come up, you have good moisture, maybe a little on the way, and spray 2pts/ac of Grazon Next HL. I can get 80%+ kill the first shot with my boom less sprayer like that. The kill will depend on how thick the grass and brush is. The thicker it is the lower your kill rate will be because its harder to get complete coverage. If you have a bunch of old grass piled around the bush it will block the poison getting to the bush so I would burn it asap before spring. I would follow up later in the year and hand spray out some of the stuff above where the sprayer can reach that is still green. I would do that the first year, then go back to the recommended 1.5/ac annually after that. Depending on how your kill is the 2nd or 3rd year I would burn it or shred it down. Dead mean you can kick it with your foot and it breaks off at the ground. The good thing is mesquite is easy to kill compared to most brush. There are probably better ways to do it but I know that works. In 2-3 years I can clean a pasture out like that and just go to annual maintenance.. :tiphat: [/QUOTE]
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