Multi flora rose?
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loshonhora
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loshonhora
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hit it with triclopyr.
pinetag
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loshonhora
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It'll make it brown for a while, then it'll come back. Crossbow/crossroad, Ortho brush killer, or anything else with triclopyr will knock the crap out of it.
pinetag
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Mennoniteman
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MFR - such a hated crop. Yet the best deer hunting in Chester, Bucks, and Montgomery county Pennsylvania is in thick stands of MFR. The deer just thrive in that stuff, mix in some greenbriars and you've got some of the best deer food and cover that there is. But it's still hateful stuff.
dogghr
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^^^^^ That thar is some good advice. It greens up before anything and deer will certainly browse it. Repeated mowing keeps it n ck and gly will subdue it short while
Honestly tho if that is MFR u have its a puss version of mine. Usually much more thorns and larger w a nice fishhook to grab chunks of your skin for bleeding purposes
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Honestly tho if that is MFR u have its a puss version of mine. Usually much more thorns and larger w a nice fishhook to grab chunks of your skin for bleeding purposes
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Chainsaw
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Same here Dogghr, even shaded the MFR grows much larger fishhook thorns at least on established stalks. Mowing and spraying with Gly a couple of times can kill it also. It gets mowed at first leaf out and then sprayed with Gly. As soon as it comes up again with new leaves we hit it again with Gly. The sprayers are often filled with Gly so that is why it gets used here not because it is the best way to kill it. Note we back into it and do not run the tractor tires thru it.
Comparative picture of MFR and blackberry with leaves growing is on my property tour. Scroll down to third post.
http://deerhunterforum.com/index.php?threads/recreating-a-deer-woods.1088/page-23
You will notice the thorns are very small in my picture also and that is because it is new growth. That could well be the case with the one you pictured by Pinetag as well. As mentioned on my thread we also dig it up with the front end loader bucket when the soil is right. Getting it out of the ground puts a huge hurting on it.
Comparative picture of MFR and blackberry with leaves growing is on my property tour. Scroll down to third post.
http://deerhunterforum.com/index.php?threads/recreating-a-deer-woods.1088/page-23
You will notice the thorns are very small in my picture also and that is because it is new growth. That could well be the case with the one you pictured by Pinetag as well. As mentioned on my thread we also dig it up with the front end loader bucket when the soil is right. Getting it out of the ground puts a huge hurting on it.
X-farmerdan
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I'm gonna stick my neck out here and say it's not multiflora rose. And, so, the next question. What is it? I have tons of it and I always thought it was greenbrier.
https://weedid.cals.vt.edu/weedimg/526
Greenbrier is a very useful plant in the world of wildlife.
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs144p2_002336.pdf
https://weedid.cals.vt.edu/weedimg/526
Greenbrier is a very useful plant in the world of wildlife.
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs144p2_002336.pdf
Mennoniteman
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Oh, it's MFR alright, without a doubt, although I wish it wasn't. There's nothing else that looks quite that evil. The devil's weed has invaded your pastures and your didn't recognize it. Like Hugo Chávez said he could still "smell sulphur" left behind by the "devil", George Bush at the United Nations, you can almost smell the sulfur when you look at the picture...
Mennoniteman
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That works, especially if you just have 1 bush and you want it gone, like right now, without buying any special chemicals, but you better have your thickest leather gloves and jacket and helmet on when you cut that bush at it's base or you will be on a first name basis with this noxious weed. If you have a lot of MFR, it's much faster and easier to just spray the base from ground to 12" high on all sides with 25% Triclopyr and walk away victorious, come back in a month and see only brittle brown sticks (that still have vicious thorns).
pinetag
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So the consensus seems to be that it is MF but just not a very hardy version? It's forming a wall of entanglement that does a good job of screening my parking pull off, so not sure if that is another clue to help with identification. I'm almost tempted to leave it for that purpose but from the horror stories I've read on the forum I'm leary.
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Mennoniteman
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It actually makes great deer habitat. So what is my advice? Kill it asap before your birds start spreading it! Put that stuff and stiltgrass together and they will spread faster than Napoleon's army, and will ruin a nice woods.
pinetag
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10-4. I have stilt grass and japanese honeysuckle both so I definitely want to get a handle on all of these this spring.
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pinetag
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Will try to get a better pic this weekend if I can make it out there.
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