cogon grass

jdbuckshot · Postby **jdbuckshot** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:19 pm

any of you guys found any of this stuff one your places, a friend just down the road from my place found two patches. look out for it, supposed to really be able to take over and choke everything out. think you have to kill it with arsenal.

duforester · Postby **duforester** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 3:37 pm

It is really difficult to control. I can get more information on it for you if you want/need it.

Double R 2 · Postby **Double R 2** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:25 pm

It is a plague. Repeat applications of Arsenal req'd to control, but you'll liley not ever get rid of it. Whoa be unto the fella that tries to kill it with roundup - it'll spread by leaps and bounds! You want tosee a BIG fire just try burning a stand of it off! Outcompetes native grasses and absolutely worthless for anything. Based on training and meetings, makes kudzu look like teh cartoon before the main feature. They used to it pack crates. Also related to japanese bloodgrass, which they still sell at nurseries. Easy to id when blooming. Keep your eyes peeled on the right of ways along highways, it's everywhere. Seed is windborn too. And beware buying grassland property, especially in coastal counties. If you are alandowner, especially in southern counties, do your homework and get ahead of the curve: the old ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure routine. It infests pine forests and pastures both.

SB · Postby SB » Thu Jun 10, 2004 6:42 pm

This stuff is bad ju-ju!

A landowner in south MS found it cheaper to sell his land and go buy some more rather than try to get rid of it.

Deadeye · Postby **Deadeye** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:46 am

What's it look like?

duforester · Postby **duforester** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 7:16 am

Try this link:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/imcy1.htm

It has some background information and "management" options.

riverrat · Postby **riverrat** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 8:33 am

jap grass/cogon grass is a bad mother :evil:

. it can be controlled by grazon pd but that most of the time just burns it

. we use our county airport for hay ground in southwest ms and it really hasn't bothered us too bad with applicating this herbi. if you find some in busted concrete i wouldn't be too worried about it, but do keep an eye on it. i know that Dr. John Byrd did some studies on it but i don't know if he is still studying it. he is in the Dept. of Weed Sciences at MSU.

mudsucker · Postby **mudsucker** » Fri Jun 11, 2004 6:37 pm

I thought alot of my friends in the late'70s early'80s that were in college majored in "WEED" science! :lol:

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