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had quite a bit of this coontail in my one acre pond - after Bobs advice I purchased some Aquathol liquid and am treating my pond in thirds spread out over 30 days. My first application worked well - my question is this: the first area I treated took 98 percent of the weed out - but there are a few small plants left along the shoreline. Should I spot treat those? Is it necessary to kill every single plant and if I don't will it come back? Thanks
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Tim, I would. Broken off pieces of coontail can reestablish themselves, so even a few small floating fragments from an existing plant can create problems again. At 98% control, you're too close to stop now.
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You may want to save your ammo (herbicide) for dealing with larger populations of coontail, and try using mechanical methods (nets) for dealing with post-treatment remnant-survivors.
With herbicide treatments, even if you control 100% of an existing coontail population (highly unlikely), it will probably reappear at some point - in the same season or next season - since the herbicide treatment will have no impact on viable seeds that were produced and released by the generation that was just controlled.
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