plant/weed ID help
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Topic: plant/weed ID help
Posted By: Rusty Allis
Subject: plant/weed ID help
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2020 at 6:40pm
this is just out of curiosity
I think it's "garlic mustard" but not sure. the leaves are HUGE (see hand photo for reference) and the best I can describe it is as if the plant itself is "hollow" or basically puffed up like tumbleweed, it seems to have no real trunk (that I can see)
they are tall, 10' plus. i'm going to beat them into submission but wondered what the technical name was


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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 12:49am
you mention...the stems being hollow. we have plants like that in our creek area, the first year they grow the stems are hollow with big leaves, and the same plant grows the next year the stems are more solid and have small thorns (SHARP) on them. they kill easy with 2-4-D or Roundup.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 12:50am
looking at the pic more...do these grow like vines and crawl up on other trees/bushes/things? if they do...kill them fast as they will kill off anything they climb.
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Posted By: JohnColo
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 11:08am
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 11:14am
'Picture this' is the name of a 'free if limited use' App available for cell phones; not sure if this plant is included in this app. Herb(GA)
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Posted By: Rusty Allis
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 12:10pm
shameless dude wrote:
looking at the pic more...do these grow like vines and crawl up on other trees/bushes/things? if they do...kill them fast as they will kill off anything they climb. |
YES!!!! that is exactly what it does. no real trunk to speak of. it seems to wrap around itself and just take off to the sky
JohnColo wrote:
Is it Kudsu (SP)?
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NAILED IT!! that is exactly what it looks like
it's evil stuff for sure. i'll give it a hot lunch of some herbicide ASAP. I don't ever recall seeing it on the property, it seems to have come from nowhere.
unfortunately we have some trees here that have some serious vines choking them out. I have chased them for years so I want to kill this stuff before it becomes a real issue
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Posted By: TimCNY
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 2:14pm
Birds surely do a terrific (terrible?) job of spreading seeds... what were once-pristine woods and pastures are now virtually choked with tartarian honeysuckle, buckthorn, wild grape, mulitflora rose, and autumn olive. It doesn't take long. All invasive, non-native miserymakers.
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Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 5:55pm
Herbicides seem to have little effect, from my experience. But goats LOVE it...
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Posted By: Rusty Allis
Date Posted: 21 Aug 2020 at 10:54pm
TimCNY wrote:
Birds surely do a terrific (terrible?) job of spreading seeds... what were once-pristine woods and pastures are now virtually choked with tartarian honeysuckle, buckthorn, wild grape, mulitflora rose, and autumn olive. It doesn't take long. All invasive, non-native miserymakers. |
agreed. i'm currently paying the price for not keeping stuff beat back over the past 10-12 years. autumn olive is my nemesis...actually everything you listed is
the property isn't as bad as it was when I first cleared it all those years ago, but noticed that it really needed to be addressed...and should have been 3-4 years ago. but, I caught lazy. seeing that I haven't cut grass all summer due to a bit of a drought I have turned up the wick on beating this stuff back.
DiyDave wrote:
Herbicides seem to have little effect, from my experience. But goats LOVE it... |
i would love to have a fleet of goats to roam around and eat all of it. just not in the cards right now
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2020 at 2:40am
cut the vine close to the ground, that will kill what is growing right now, it'll prolly take off again, just keep cutting it, can usually yank on the vine and pull it off what ever it's growing on. throw it on the burn pile.
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Posted By: Tad Wicks
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2020 at 11:06am
Ya know, I ordered a book online that identified all the noxious and invasive biologics here in CA. by regions, when I got it all it had was pictures of our elected politicians.  
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2020 at 3:09pm
Hey Tad,,,that right there is a good, good one,,,gonna have to put that one in my little pink book,,,,,,  
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Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2020 at 6:33pm
To kill kudzu, find the point where the vine stem reaches the ground. Take a spade, and stab it into the ground at an angle about 4" away from the stem, going down at a 45-degree angle, severing the root just below the Root Crown.
The root crown is a ball area at top of the root, where the stem (or stems) depart.
cut off the root crown, and the roots will begin to die.
The stem may have seed pods, if you cut the root crown while the seeds are still immature, they will likely be inviable (unable to germinate), and your kudzu problem will start to go away.
It'll require dilligence, as there's probably plenty of root crowns in the area, and many seeds of prior generations waiting to germinate. Taking regular trips through with your spade will get them reduced dramatically, but you'll have to keep doing it 'till no viable seeds are left in the soil.
They don't like high water tables, and they don't survive well in shade, that's why they climb, and choke out other vegetation.
Some herbicides will work well on them, but cutting off and yanking out the root crown does the best.
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Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2020 at 10:13pm
cut off everything you can.. then use TORDON and reapply yearly when new sprouts come up..... TORDON ( Crossbow) is better than 2-4-D alone or Roundup.
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Posted By: Rusty Allis
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2020 at 7:28am
Tad Wicks wrote:
Ya know, I ordered a book online that identified all the noxious and invasive biologics here in CA. by regions, when I got it all it had was pictures of our elected politicians.  
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I about spit out my coffee
thanks for the tips guys. i know it's evil stuff, just didn't know the name of it.
like i said, it seems to have come from nowhere. i don't remember it being here until recently. i'm on a mission to clear back stuff i let go. totally my fault for sure. just balled up a huge wad of it and let it die in a pile. will attack with a shovel and crossbow
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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2020 at 5:29pm
sure looks like a grape vine to me
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Posted By: Rusty Allis
Date Posted: 24 Aug 2020 at 5:40pm
after doing some digging I also found this
http://www.state.in.us/dnr/entomolo/files/ep-KudzuAlertSheet.pdf" rel="nofollow - http://www.state.in.us/dnr/entomolo/files/ep-KudzuAlertSheet.pdf
it almost looks like wild grape. they do a comparison shot of them so you can see what the grapes look like vs kudzu
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Date Posted: 05 Nov 2020 at 1:52pm
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Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2020 at 12:18am
I cut grape vines off at ground level, chain saw, And then cut the vine off about three feet up. Toss the three foot pieces on the burn pile. If you don't take out that piece and it can reach the ground, it will root and continue to grow. If you want you can pull the vines out of the trees. I have pulled some down and made Honey a couple of wreathes. The best way I have found to get rid of it is to keep it cut down and clear low branches so it can't get to anything to grow on.
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Posted By: ford8nwd
Date Posted: 06 Nov 2020 at 7:46am
I agree, Lou grapevine it is, at least it sure looks like it.
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