WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 08:19 AM
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Anyone know how I could eradicate this stuff before it get out of hand? I have 2 large plots of this stuff on my hunting land that is getting out of hand. I have a pond in the middle of the 2 plots so spraying chemical may be a concern for the fish. This stuff is about 25' tall and baseball bat diameter.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 08:37 AM
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Far as I know, it's almost impossible to kill. It will laugh at weed killer. Digging it up will work but you have to get it all. Leave one root and the stuff will come back.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 08:47 AM
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Ran over a swipe of it with the brush hog about a month ago and I swear there's new stuff ten ft. tall in my tire tracks now!
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 09:05 AM
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Ran over a swipe of it with the brush hog about a month ago and I swear there's new stuff ten ft. tall in my tire tracks now! The stuff is almost indestructible. Cut and dry it for firewood, learn how to make fishing poles, build a hut. That's about all you can do. Some of it grows so fast that Asians used to torture people by tying them down over a shoot and letting the bamboo grow through the person!
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 09:15 AM
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cathryn
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brush hog or mow them when they first come up they will come back to some extent but if you keep cutting them. off young they will die out. eventually. be glad you dont have a kudzo infestation
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 09:55 AM
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Last edited by Mocular; 06/21/19 09:56 AM.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 09:57 AM
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I suppose someone more crafty than I could do some really cool stuff with them. The previous owner planted them as part of landscaping around the pond unfortunately or they wouldn't be here in the first place. I have this stuff along with some kind of ornamental lillys that grow in the water and whatever that grass is that grows in a clump about 10' tall. Wish he would've just stuck with the fish only and left the landscaping out.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 11:48 AM
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Think of it as draining a battery, the roots are the battery.
Cut the power/solar panels/EVERY THING ABOVE GROUND.
It will sprout back, let it spend energy. But before it can recharge cut everything above ground.
Repeat until it gives up.
Also roundup does work on bamboo though not as well as triclopyr. I've about won my war with bamboo and it's only taken ten years. Would've been quicker if the neighbors were on board at fiirst and had eradicated their side of the bamboo patch.
The roundup just stunts it back. I used it prior to cutting to try to knock it back. As said it's a process of wearing it out.
If you have heavy equipment and can cut the whole patch or rip out the roots you can get a good kill in a single season but you can't let a single root or sprout remain or eventually you'll be back to square one.
Last edited by warrior; 06/21/19 11:54 AM.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 02:41 PM
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Cut it down and spray the stump portion with Ortho Max Poison Ivey Killer mixed with Dawn dish detergent.
Last edited by VictorD; 06/21/19 02:43 PM.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 03:43 PM
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Sounds like it may have some commercial value, might want to check into that.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 04:09 PM
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Sounds like it may have some commercial value, might want to check into that. Good idea, they surely don't bring in those Tiki torch sticks from overseas, but then maybe they do. Last cane pole I priced I walked away.
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 04:40 PM
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In that size they could be used for furniture. I took my R&R from the 'Nam in China, (Taiwan), not surprisingly they used bamboo for everything, construction scaffolding for one.
Every kid needs a Dog and a Curmudgeon.
Remember Bowe Bergdahl, the traitor.
Beware! Jill Pudlewski, Ron Oates and Keven Begesse are liars and thiefs!
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Re: WV bamboo jungle
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06/21/19 04:58 PM
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Sounds like it may have some commercial value, might want to check into that. Good idea, they surely don't bring in those Tiki torch sticks from overseas, but then maybe they do. Last cane pole I priced I walked away. Yep - I always had a cane pole to fish with as a kid... Got a new one every spring - the old ones were recommissioned to frog gigs.
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