Palmettos
- ole5beards
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Palmettos
I'll ask you guys especially all y'all floridians. Have y'all ever sprayed them and been successful? A place I hunt is all palmettos, the hunting is good but I think it could be better if we had more open areas in the swamp. I've had success deer hunting this place by finding small pockets or openings in the palmettos and got to thinking it'd probably be beneficial for the turkeys as well. We have a tractor and bush hawg but those big hardwoods make it a tight squeeze at times. So that brings me to spraying, or cutting then spraying or vice versa. Just wanting to see if y'all have done this and if it worked. And also what you used to spray them.
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the help!
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Re: Palmettos
We have alot down this way too....I know a bulldozer can cut them flush with the ground and they come back up....their tough for sure, maybe bushhog and spray with paraquat.
Re: Palmettos
One of the surest and best ways to get rid of palmettos is to sell the land.Gil
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Re: Palmettos
Good luck!
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- ole5beards
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Re: Palmettos
I could almost see this coming I had a feeling it was gonna involve way more than I thougt. We traded out deer and duck hunting a few years back for a guy and he brought in his dozier and opened up some good spots and created several new roads and like you said they're coming back but at least now we can maintain them by cutting. No one else turkey hunts but me and that's really why id like to do it. Some places the they're over your head!! There's turkeys there but they're not ever in the swamp like you'd think they would be. I'll keep scratching around and try to find something.
Pass the biscuits!!
Re: Palmettos
There were LOTS more turkeys in the WMA I hunt in Florida, back when they ran enough cattle to keep the palmettos thinned out. No question.
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Re: Palmettos
Sounds like you need to be getting in the cattle business.
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Re: Palmettos
Cut then spray the stump with glyphosate (Round Up).
Re: Palmettos
Many of the swamps I hunt in the SC low country look identical to Fla. I generally end up standing to hunt these places. a machete is about the only way to control them...
Re: Palmettos
Sure going to be a sad day when I have to eat my green olives hollow.
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- Southern Sportsman
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Re: Palmettos
I dont know anything about palmettos, but I do know thay gly is absorbed through plants' leaves, so cutting then spraying would seem counterproductive. Maybe cut then wait for new more supple growth and spray.blunderbuss wrote:Cut then spray the stump with glyphosate (Round Up).
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Re: Palmettos
SS. The description he gives is accurate. You spray the "stump" and it kills the roots.
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Re: Palmettos
Interesting. When we have a difficult area we always bushhog then come back a week or two later and spray once everything starts to put on new growth. I guess the green stump/stalk of the palmetto absorbs it.
Alternatively, if you have any farmer buddies and can acquire gramoxone, it will kill pretty much anything
Alternatively, if you have any farmer buddies and can acquire gramoxone, it will kill pretty much anything
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Re: Palmettos
I've had some great hunts in palmettos. They are plentiful here in the low country. I've had birds snake their way through them coming in to me.
Re: Palmettos
Gramoxone a version of Paraquat. A RUP(RestictedUsePesticide). U don't want any of that.
It is not a systemic either. You will want that to kill palmetto.
It is not a systemic either. You will want that to kill palmetto.
Re: Palmettos
Gramoxone..should kill it without cutting, but it is restricted. Glyphosate would kill only by spraying the stump.