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Is this torpedo grass?
Posted on 11/11/24 at 5:25 pm
Posted on 11/11/24 at 5:25 pm
Just pulled some out of my lawn. Very pointy end, semi hard. If it is torpedo, what can I spray?
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Posted on 11/11/24 at 8:05 pm to PeteRose
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If it is torpedo, what can I spray?
Napalm.
Posted on 11/11/24 at 9:11 pm to PeteRose
The only sure solution that rids one of it is to move.
Posted on 11/11/24 at 9:57 pm to PeteRose
Why yes...yes it is.
It's all over my backyard...brought in by the last flood. It's never going away.
In the spring the parish comes and sprays the aquatic vegetation growing in the canals and the river where my place is. Took the boat for a ride and noticed all the leaves dying on the floating mats...Except for patches of green. Looked a little closer and it was torpedo grass growing...not even in dirt...not even yellowed by the poison. I had never seen that prior to Ida.
Anyway, at least it's green in the lawn.
It's all over my backyard...brought in by the last flood. It's never going away.
In the spring the parish comes and sprays the aquatic vegetation growing in the canals and the river where my place is. Took the boat for a ride and noticed all the leaves dying on the floating mats...Except for patches of green. Looked a little closer and it was torpedo grass growing...not even in dirt...not even yellowed by the poison. I had never seen that prior to Ida.
Anyway, at least it's green in the lawn.
Posted on 11/11/24 at 10:12 pm to Ziggy
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Napalm
Still won’t work
Posted on 11/12/24 at 2:53 am to DMAN1968
I just had these new sods install a few months ago. What a shame.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 3:37 am to PeteRose
Personally, I don't get people's fascination with a perfect lawn. As for me, if it's green and grows, I just keep it cut and trimmed. Seems like a perfect waste of time and effort to want a lawn to rival the pristine golf course at Augusta.
My yard is mainly St. Aug, but there's other grasses mixed in, along with some weeds and as long as those weeds don't produce nasty arse stickers, I'm good with it.
But, to each their own I suppose as that is what makes the world go round.
My yard is mainly St. Aug, but there's other grasses mixed in, along with some weeds and as long as those weeds don't produce nasty arse stickers, I'm good with it.
But, to each their own I suppose as that is what makes the world go round.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 5:58 am to PeteRose
I don’t think it is torpedo.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 9:04 am to gumbo2176
I’m far from a perfectionist. Actually, half of lawn is st aug, the other zoysia. The st Aug has weed here and there and I don’t mind then since they are not permanent like the torpedo.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 9:05 am to NOLAGT
So that pic in your post is torpedo?
Posted on 11/12/24 at 9:38 am to gumbo2176
If you ever get torpedo grass, you’ll understand the desire not to have it.
Grows super fast, is like walking on straw, and takes over like ants on a lizard.
Grows super fast, is like walking on straw, and takes over like ants on a lizard.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 9:46 am to Grassy1
The worst part of torpedo for me is trying to keep it out of my flower beds
Posted on 11/12/24 at 10:27 am to PeteRose
Yes sorry the pic I posted is what it looks like. I think your pic is an imposter. The stem on the torpedo is singular and the leaves come off it. Yours looks more like it has different stems splitting off toward the base. I think also torpedo has some little fine hairs on the stem that can help ID it.
This post was edited on 11/12/24 at 10:46 am
Posted on 11/12/24 at 11:05 am to PeteRose
I find zoysia and torpedo to look similar when torpedo is still young
Unfortunately I think that is torpedo, but the lead of the stolen does look like the zoysia I have. Stolen is usually purple when actively growing.
ETA: stolon
Unfortunately I think that is torpedo, but the lead of the stolen does look like the zoysia I have. Stolen is usually purple when actively growing.
ETA: stolon
This post was edited on 11/12/24 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 11/12/24 at 12:13 pm to NOLAGT
Thanks for that. I’ll definitely use it to get a better answer.
Posted on 11/12/24 at 2:13 pm to OceanMan
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zoysia
Thats what I was thinking it was but I'm far from an expert
Posted on 11/12/24 at 4:32 pm to PeteRose
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I just had these new sods install a few months ago
I'd be making some angry phone calls!
And if it's in your Zoysia lawn, some repeat applications of quinclorac will kill it.
This post was edited on 11/12/24 at 4:38 pm
Posted on 11/12/24 at 4:42 pm to PeteRose
I have zoysia and had torpedo. When that zoysia pops up in my flower beds it looks very torpedo grass like. Right now if you have torpedo and you aren’t cutting are frequently it will pop out like a sore thumb.
That doesn’t look like torpedo.
That doesn’t look like torpedo.
Posted on 11/13/24 at 8:57 pm to PeteRose
So, torpedo grass looks just like Bermuda? What’s wrong with that? 
Posted on 11/14/24 at 10:21 am to Spankum
Nothing, that’s why I keep it cut short. Looks great.
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