{"id":429,"date":"2018-04-18T19:16:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/?p=429"},"modified":"2018-04-18T19:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:16:14","slug":"controlling-thistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/2018\/04\/controlling-thistle\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Thistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-431\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/DB87E81C-E9B7-4F7C-A0F4-49E9164CB2D6.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/DB87E81C-E9B7-4F7C-A0F4-49E9164CB2D6.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/DB87E81C-E9B7-4F7C-A0F4-49E9164CB2D6-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/DB87E81C-E9B7-4F7C-A0F4-49E9164CB2D6-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/DB87E81C-E9B7-4F7C-A0F4-49E9164CB2D6-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/DB87E81C-E9B7-4F7C-A0F4-49E9164CB2D6-138x138.jpeg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing lots of thistles in the pastures right now, and we got to get them before they get too big. Just last week, they were hard to spot. Now they are bolting and getting ready to flower.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_430\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-430\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-430\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/EAA12610-390F-4F16-AC55-F5C04112B4BB.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/EAA12610-390F-4F16-AC55-F5C04112B4BB.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/EAA12610-390F-4F16-AC55-F5C04112B4BB-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/EAA12610-390F-4F16-AC55-F5C04112B4BB-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/EAA12610-390F-4F16-AC55-F5C04112B4BB-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/EAA12610-390F-4F16-AC55-F5C04112B4BB-138x138.jpeg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thistle in the rosette stage just before bolting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have good options on thistle but the real issue is timing. In the roseett stage, they are easier to kill. Once they shoot up a stem (bolting), they get more difficult to kill. Here is a good chart of common herbicides used in thistle and their effectiveness during each growth stage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/82515381-0F72-42F8-B1B7-9EB457C049B7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/82515381-0F72-42F8-B1B7-9EB457C049B7.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/82515381-0F72-42F8-B1B7-9EB457C049B7-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/82515381-0F72-42F8-B1B7-9EB457C049B7-768x479.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/files\/2018\/04\/82515381-0F72-42F8-B1B7-9EB457C049B7-221x138.jpeg 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re seeing lots of thistles in the pastures right now, and we got to get them before they get too big. Just last week, they were hard to spot. Now they are bolting and getting ready to flower. We have good options on thistle but the real issue is timing. In the roseett stage, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forage-pasture","category-weed-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/wilcoxcoag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}