Dealing with schellimeisters/flaggers/irises

Valtraman2012

Well lads i've been tryin to deal with these flaggers. The licker just doesnt seem to get them. Any of ye have have suggestions?:pac:

Conmaicne Mara

9 inch paint roller, fluffy, but not too fluffy, goldilocks fluffy. You don't want the hard foamy type.
Handle which goes up past your elbow, plus one screw for the above.
Rectangular bucket, can get them in bakeries - apple filling comes in them.
Washing up liquid, one dash.
Glyphosate + water, fairly strong mix.

Mix water, glypho + wash up liquid in rectangular bucket. Put handle in roller, insert screw

Dip roller into bucket, being mindful that water+chemical will pool inside the roller, so tilt and find which side flushes out - into the bucket!

Roll roller on inside of the bucket to take care of dripping.

Apply roller to flagger - dead flagger.

Amount needed? Lick your thumb, wipe it on something, see it shine but not drip? That's as much as you need to apply, run off is bad.

The above will kill all your flagger. You may need to do it for two years but it works, mine are all gone.

Wear gloves, watch from drips, run off or spray if overly enthusiastic in roller action.

Enjoy looking at dead flaggers.

Valtraman2012

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

9 inch paint roller, fluffy, but not too fluffy, goldilocks fluffy. You don't want the hard foamy type.
Handle which goes up past your elbow, plus one screw for the above.
Rectangular bucket, can get them in bakeries - apple filling comes in them.
Washing up liquid, one dash.
Glyphosate + water, fairly strong mix.

Mix water, glypho + wash up liquid in rectangular bucket. Put handle in roller, insert screw

Dip roller into bucket, being mindful that water+chemical will pool inside the roller, so tilt and find which side flushes out - into the bucket!

Roll roller on inside of the bucket to take care of dripping.

Apply roller to flagger - dead flagger.

Amount needed? Lick your thumb, wipe it on something, see it shine but not drip? That's as much as you need to apply, run off is bad.

The above will kill all your flagger. You may need to do it for two years but it works, mine are all gone.

Wear gloves, watch from drips, run off or spray if overly enthusiastic in roller action.

Enjoy looking at dead flaggers.

Christ id be here till this time next year if i did that :eek:
My licker has the paint roller material on it just while it stunted the flaggers they seem to be coming on again.

Conmaicne Mara

Valtraman2012 wrote: »

Christ id be here till this time next year if i did that :eek:
My licker has the paint roller material on it just while it stunted the flaggers they seem to be coming on again.

I get that reply a lot, mostly from farmers who still have their flaggers :P Persistence is what kills the bastards.

Can't see why the licker wouldn't work, were you going too fast or how strong did you make the mix, did you use a sticker?

There was mention of a spray at one of our STAP meetings but I didn't get the name, Teagasc will know if you have an advisor. Everyone was commenting how hard it was to kill them at that meeting :eek: I found them one of the easiest weeds to eradicate TBH.

reilig

MCPA or shell d50 in the licker at a fairly strong mix will kill them. Use a bit of washing up liquid as a sticker and make sure that they don't get rain for 24 hours afterwards as they have a waxy skin which needs a good bit of time for the liquid to absorb.

Valtraman2012

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

I get that reply a lot, mostly from farmers who still have their flaggers :P Persistence is what kills the bastards.

Can't see why the licker wouldn't work, were you going too fast or how strong did you make the mix, did you use a sticker?

There was mention of a spray at one of our STAP meetings but I didn't get the name, Teagasc will know if you have an advisor. Everyone was commenting how hard it was to kill them at that meeting :eek: I found them one of the easiest weeds to eradicate TBH.

I was goin around 8 kmh :P i didnt use any washing up liquid as i heard it can foam up the whole mix :O i was putting 4 litres of gallup to 120 litre of water.....

Valtraman2012

reilig wrote: »

MCPA or shell d50 in the licker at a fairly strong mix will kill them. Use a bit of washing up liquid as a sticker and make sure that they don't get rain for 24 hours afterwards as they have a waxy skin which needs a good bit of time for the liquid to absorb.

I must have a look for that stuff. How strong do you mean?

reilig

Valtraman2012 wrote: »

I must have a look for that stuff. How strong do you mean?

10 to 1 for the mcpa

Bodacious

reilig wrote: »

MCPA or shell d50 in the licker at a fairly strong mix will kill them. Use a bit of washing up liquid as a sticker and make sure that they don't get rain for 24 hours afterwards as they have a waxy skin which needs a good bit of time for the liquid to absorb.

I did something I never do and rolled strong flaggers before spraying with mcpa and have got very mixed results,.. some burnt to hell and others starting to get back up.. don't think id bother rolling them again prior to spraying... will hit them with roundup now as don't like to be beat!!