Decided to finally deal with picrel (japanese knotweed) that has been growing in my yard undisturbed
What would be the best course of action (besides excavating and glyphosates) to completely wipe it from the face of earth ?
open for all suggestions
Cut it and fill the holes with salt
Its natural habitat is salty volcanic ash you stupid fricks.
This OP. Just accept it and trim it back to root every year and you're good. Or get a goat to eat it.
The roots contain resveratrol and it's used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine.
This is a ~~*Property Developer*~~ lie made to artificially depreciate land value. Unless you live in America where houses are cardboard the rhizomes do frick all.
...but that would ruin the ground for other plants, how about boiling water?
Has no-one ever figured out how to put The Power of the Knotweed to good use?
You can eat it like asparagus in the spring. It makes good honey and the bees love it as well.
why do people want to get rid of it again
its the Evil Weed, or your senpai
wtf how horrifying
>evasive
If you throw weed killers at it it dodges.
Is that... JAPANESE KNOTWEED? AHHHHH SAVE ME Black personMAN.
Grorious nippon cellulose, evolved 10,000 years ago
it's pretty bad - it will grow to like 10ft tall if left to it's own devices. the roots are very destructive as well. it can grow back from any piece of the rhizome left in the soil unless you literally burn the dirt.
>tall majestic greenery that asks nothing of you
or
>hot concrete and dry dirt
It will literally take a house down if left unchecked.
Yeah, /misc/ used it during Operation: Go Green
Figures they would come up with a use..
>Operation: Go Green
missed this one, qrd? ta.
>qrd?
Melanin enriched individuals were infesting unoccupied housing in Detroit. The neighborhood in question had gone from bad to worse. Brainstorming was done regarding eliminating them with as little physical violence as possible. Noxious weeds that will destroy a house if left unchecked were chosen, as the offending parties were too lazy to keep the Knotweed in check. My personal contribution was suggesting the pellets from One Straw Revolution. High clay soil is mixed with the desired seeds, formed into small balls, dried, then dispersed on the target area with slingshots. Mother Nature does the rest. Apparently, the mission was seen through conclusion. Years have passed. There should be a pretty good infestation in at least one Detroit neighborhood.
What other plants are good for this sort of thing? Knotweed is probably the most destructive, but seeds are impossible to get and rhizomes have to be manually harvested from existing infestations. Bamboo might be good as it grows quickly, but not sure on it's destructive potential. Ivy could work but is very slow acting so probably not of much use for something like this. I guess the ideal plant is fast growing, fairly destructive, and a b***h to get rid of, but still obtainable easily as a seed
Knotweed is the best in terms of home destroying ability. Wine berries spread well but aren't destructive. Kudzu is somewhat destructive but it's easily cut off at the base.
Black folk came from the jungle they won't flee from it but embrace it you underestimate their laziness.
yes, cut it, dry it and make it into resveratrol supplement, sell it online.
Let it grow out in the spring then cut it. Let enough grow back enough to poison it in the fall when it's sending nutrients back to the rizhomes. There is various literature of you search the interweb. You need to be an autist or it will beat you.
Post hole shovel, scrape off.
Get a female to piss on it. Female piss kills everything.
Doesnt kill my boner when they piss on me in the shower mmmmmmmmmmm
fire, and if you don't want much to grow there at all you can dump salt after the fire
>dig up rhizomes
>chop up small
>spread on the land of those who displease you
checked
>growing in my yard undisturbed
your yard is a parking lot?
Cut 1/3-1/2 up each one. Char the end black. Let it try to heal itself and die from it's own metabolism
Oh boy you are properly fricked. This is the plant that can completely destroy your property. I can't think of anything worse and I did my research.
It's going to destroy anything man made in its path foundation, walls, asphalt and concrete.
Sell off your property now while you can unless you want to dig up rhizomes that can be up to 3m deep.
i had about 1/3 of an acre of knotween on my property - the shit is insidious. for the main patch i cut it once in the summer, dumped some roundup into the core then, tarped off the area and covered it with mulch.
the stragglers i cut once in the spring, let it grow, cut it again in the summer, then spray what comes up in the fall with roundup - fall is when it's pulling everything into the rhyzzomes (from what i understand) which help speeds it's demise. i'm on year two of the stragglers and they're coming up pretty thin and sickly. i plan to repeat for at least another year, maybe two.
Learning the pattern is key to eradicating bamboo. It is likely important for this noxious weed as well. Keep up the good work.
Sell the roots for alt medicine and use the money to repair.
boiling water or calcium chloride
Use radiation to destroy their cells
had this in a corner of my swampland. took a microwave apart, put the emitter on the end of a sick, run an extension cord out there & just sweep the base a few times a day for a week or so. that did the trick
You're a fricking mad man
Pls show pics of your contraption anon, I genuinely can't visualize it
I hope you used some tinfoil shielding to protect your nuts, nobody likes roasted nuts.
Literally just keep spraying glyphpsate on it until it stops coming up.
What about spraying it with a herbicide like Roundup?
My local park deals with it by digging down a couple inches to remove as much of the surface rhizome, covering the area in a tarp, then returning to remove new shoots. They repeat this throughout the spring and summer then they monitor the area the following year.
Be sure to dispose of the knotweed properly. Not every landfill will accept it.
They are a major problem in my country. The rhizomes/roots travel 2ft deep and 20ft across. What they do here is dig off 2ft of soil and put through a special machine that hears it to a temperature that kills the roots before putting it back.