Transplanting Gumweed – Homestead Academy

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- June 28, 2017 at 5:17 AM #36060
  Michelle Koch
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  Okay, so every last gumweed plant in my town is dead. 🙁 But I’m in another city, on a business trip, and there is loads of it here. It hasn’t bloomed yet, it is still very green. I definitely want to take some home. Is it too soon to just harvest the buds? Should I dig one up to transplant at home? How can I keep it from becoming invasive and proliferating my whole yard? All I know is, I NEED this plant!
  
  Thanks.
- June 30, 2017 at 1:41 PM #36066
  IdahoHerbalist
  I have had luck with moving the plants. I moved them while in FULL FLOWER when my previous boss told me he was going to 2-4D the whole field. I just walked around and yanked as many out as I could as quickly as I could. I put them in buckets with water. I got well over 50% success and harvested the flowers on the ones that were fading. I got them into the ground the same day.
  
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- June 30, 2017 at 1:51 PM #36068
  Michelle Koch
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  Awesome, thank you!
  
  I’m actually home now, and I didn’t bring any of it home. One of these days I will have to take a drive, I think….
- June 30, 2017 at 7:39 PM #36069
  IdahoHerbalist
  Or you can buy some seed from ME!!! It really does grow better from seed.
- July 1, 2017 at 8:13 PM #36071
  Martha Stanley
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  IdahoHerbalist wrote: Or you can buy some seed from ME!!! It really does grow better from seed.
  
  I’m interested in a small quantity of seed to try.
  
  Martha
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