how to kill duck weed and alligator weed

[pondman]

Duckweed is a very fine grain-like plant that grows on top of the water surface. There is common duckweed (Lemna minor) and giant duckweed (Spirodella polyrriza). Watermeal is another plant that looks very similar to duckweed but not. Ducks will eat duckweed but it shades out other plants that grow from under the water that ducks may also like. Reward (diquat) will kill it but it is only a contact herbicide. Best thing is to use a contact then a systemic like Sonar (fluridone) to get rid of it. Alligatorweed is a nonnative weed that has no value to a duck. All it does is take over areas, prevent boat access, decrease oxygen in the water, and so on. I would tell you how to kill it but I have to legally tell you to contact my aquatic weeds professor. Dr. John Madsen at Mississippi State University, 662-325-2428, jmadsen@gri.msstate.edu.

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What about flowthrough? Does that impact the effectiveness of Sonar? What kills watermeal? What kills alligatorweed?

DanP and DUCK-HUNT, you are not allowed to answer!!

Pond

[GrizwalD]

personally ive never seen anything that kills watermeals nor have i seen anything that will kill alligator weed. Now i have seen some different things tried on alligator weed and it burn it back for a little while but as far as killing i havent seen but would love to know if there is one out there.

[DUCK-HUNT]

Duckweed is a very fine grain-like plant that grows on top of the water surface. There is common duckweed (Lemna minor) and giant duckweed (Spirodella polyrriza). Watermeal is another plant that looks very similar to duckweed but not. Ducks will eat duckweed but it shades out other plants that grow from under the water that ducks may also like. Reward (diquat) will kill it but it is only a contact herbicide. Best thing is to use a contact then a systemic like Sonar (fluridone) to get rid of it. Alligatorweed is a nonnative weed that has no value to a duck. All it does is take over areas, prevent boat access, decrease oxygen in the water, and so on. I would tell you how to kill it but I have to legally tell you to contact my aquatic weeds professor. Dr. John Madsen at Mississippi State University, 662-325-2428, jmadsen@gri.msstate.edu.

t

What about flowthrough? Does that impact the effectiveness of Sonar? What kills watermeal? What kills alligatorweed?

DanP and DUCK-HUNT, you are not allowed to answer!!

Pond

aw come on!!!

[pondman]

Duckweed is a very fine grain-like plant that grows on top of the water surface. There is common duckweed (Lemna minor) and giant duckweed (Spirodella polyrriza). Watermeal is another plant that looks very similar to duckweed but not. Ducks will eat duckweed but it shades out other plants that grow from under the water that ducks may also like. Reward (diquat) will kill it but it is only a contact herbicide. Best thing is to use a contact then a systemic like Sonar (fluridone) to get rid of it. Alligatorweed is a nonnative weed that has no value to a duck. All it does is take over areas, prevent boat access, decrease oxygen in the water, and so on. I would tell you how to kill it but I have to legally tell you to contact my aquatic weeds professor. Dr. John Madsen at Mississippi State University, 662-325-2428, jmadsen@gri.msstate.edu.

t

What about flowthrough? Does that impact the effectiveness of Sonar? What kills watermeal? What kills alligatorweed?

DanP and DUCK-HUNT, you are not allowed to answer!!

Pond

Since cockandlock won't come back out and play, knock yourself out. I know you have all the good stuff to kill both watermeal and alligator weed.

Pond


aw come on!!!

[cockandlock25]

Imazapyr, 2,4-D, and triclopyr work the best on alligatorweed. Waterflow does affect fluridone effectiveness on duckweed. How much, I'm not sure. You would have to ask someone who knows more about fluridone.

[pep]

we have a slough that gets it pretty good and the gadwalls are always in there, not sure if its the duck weed or not but i always have thought it was. i really dont care why theyre there as long as they are.(im not above shooting a limit of gadwalls)

[redleg3316]

we have the same prob in some of our holes, but we kill mallards on it. But killing it is prob gone cost more than its worth.

[chevy01234]

I have never seen alligator weed or duckweed before, would anyone mind posting up some pictures?

[teul2]

And why kill it?!?!

[LawDawg]

wouldn't releasing a couple alligators into the alligator weed knock it down? they do eat it, right? I mean, if a gadwall will eat it, I know an alligator will.