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It is a very tenacious plant. I had exactly one stalk grow to 3 feet in a mulched area of my yard. I didn't think too much about it because I didn't know what
by fatnoah 2y ago
It is a very tenacious plant. I had exactly one stalk grow to 3 feet in a mulched area of my yard. I didn't think too much about it because I didn't know what it was and hadn't heard of it. While testing a trial of a plant identification application, I successfully identified it.
As someone loathe to use chemicals, I thought perhaps that the tenacity of the plant was overhyped, so I simply pulled the stalk out of the ground. Over the next several months, I'd notice 3-4 new stalks popping up each week over a roughly 15 foot radius area. That continued through the next spring when I finally decided enough was enough and got the glysophate.
From June through winter (I'm in the northeast US), I'd let a plant grow for a week or two and then spray it with the glysophate and leave the plant in place. I did this for the entirety of the following year as well. Now, in year 3, I finally have no more shoots popping up, and can't begin to imagine what managing a true infestation looks like.
- krunck 2y agoI had a situation similar to yours. I was able to eliminate the single plant by chopping it out every time it popped up. No glyphosate needed.
- foobarian 2y agoAt some point even highly invasive plants like JK have to respect laws of thermodynamics. You get it eventually! On that note, the dried knotweed stalks are fun to burn because their bamboo-like segments are divided by a membrane that seals them shut, so they pop quite satisfyingly. Our kids were sad that they ran out of it at some point after a while harvesting the stalks behind our yard.
- exDM69 2y agoI'm starting to suspect that this plant either violates the laws of thermodynamics, works by geothermal energy it sucks from its roots which seem to go down to the tectonic plates, or perhaps by radioactive decay of radon in the ground.
- zikduruqe 2y agoIf it pops up again, eat it. https://www.eattheweeds.com/japanese-knotweed-dreadable-edible/ https://www.eattheweeds.com/japanese-knotweed-dreadable-edib...
- m463 2y agoOne year I got these creepy stalk plants. Took a while to identify them. They were like 5 feet tall, and I'm pretty certain they could star in a b-grade horror movie. here's the plant (but the wikipedia images don't do it justice): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbascum_thapsus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbascum_thapsus EDIT better images: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=Verbascum+thapsus&ia=images&iax=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=Verbascum+thapsus&ia=images...
- mattpallissard 2y agoThe standard move with hearty invasive plants (brush honeysuckle) where I grew up is to cut it back to a single stem stem then use a paintbrush to immediately apply glyphosate. I don't like using it myself but it's better than both other options; the invasive choking out everything else or indiscriminately spraying.