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Big Dog

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Can anyone identify this plant. Broad leaf with large fleshy stalk. western PA.
 

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bczoom

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Do you have any pictures of it in the ground?

Can you break open the stalk or rub your fingers on the leaves and tell us if it stinks?

Did it look like the pic below a month or so ago?

If so, it's skunk cabbage. If it is, read up on it. It's normally worth keeping.

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Big Dog

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It's not mine, FIL brought it over to identify. I'll go over and look later.
 

bczoom

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OK, more pics would be good.

It could also be Plantain or Burdock.
 

Big Dog

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I'm guessing against burdock ............ this has no flowers and stalks (bamboo like) get 7' high!
 

bczoom

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at 7' tall, I'm now thinking it's pigweed. Does it get hairy looking buds on it when it grows?

Does it get flowers on it later in the year that look like queen anne's lace? If so, it's probably hogweed. If that's what it is, be VERY CAREFUL in handling it. It's one of the nastiest plants there is in our area. Look up phylophotodermatitis (which is what you can get on contact with the skin). Not sure if you get it from the PA variety of plant but there's "Giant Hogweed" in our area. I've called the DEP and they sent someone out to check the hogweed. If it's the "Giant Hogweed" variety, they send people out for something like 7 years to try to kill it. It's that hard to kill. What I found in my area is still noxious but they won't do anything with it.
 
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Big Dog

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I think we found it. Polygonum cuspidatum - Japanese knotweed
 

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bczoom

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Knock on wood, I haven't seed that one around me before.

I just read it's an invasive plant that's hard to kill.

Good luck!
 

Big Dog

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Manual eradication best, this helps they say ...... RM43 43% Glyphosate
 

Adillo303

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I have used it without the Epson salt some. I left the Epson salt out as I wanted a quick kill and reseed. It did what I wanted.

I sure it is better with the Epson salt.

Cheap enough to make a small batch for a test.

We are natural ingredients types here.

We do I d an ant killer (20 mule team borax / sugar / water) that works absolutely great.
 

loboloco

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Thanks Andy.
I would like to hear from someone who tried this and how well it did or did not work.

Here is the graphic from Andy's link:
Works pretty good. may need multiple apps for grass. Does great on broadleafs though.
 

Doc

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Just ran into this also. Another happy user of home made weed killer. :thumb:
 

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EastTexFrank

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Just ran into this also. Another happy user of home made weed killer. :thumb:

I'm not surprised that it worked. It also poisoned the soil until it gets leached out by rainfall.

There are lots of things stored in your kitchen cabinets and under the kitchen sink that will kill green plants. That doesn't mean to say that you should be broadcasting them all over the yard.
 

mtntopper

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The problem with the various salt mixes I have tried is that they plug up my sprayer tip and I have to keep cleaning it to keep it spraying. :sad:
 

bczoom

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If you use the salt in the mix, nothing will grow back for a long time (at least a year).

If you omit the salt, it'll still kill plants but things can grow back again.
 
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