Transplanting/planting cattails.
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FCSpringer
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I think you can just scatter the seed in a wet area and it will grow. I was going to do the same thing.
Prairie Drifter
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More apt to spray to get rid of them here.
FCSpringer
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LOL, yea, here they can be winter gold.
dustin mudd
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my wife is a wetlands vegitation specialist, and says you can replant the tubers " roots" , or spread the seeds for starting cattails
my wife is a wetlands vegitation specialist, and says you can replant the tubers " roots" , or spread the seeds for starting cattails
moellermd
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When is the best time to transplant the tubers?
dustin mudd
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In the spring, dig the tubers after the frost has left the ground, and replant in shallow water , under 1-2 inches. Or take cattails seed heads , smash them, and distribute , which would be easier to do a large area.
In the spring, dig the tubers after the frost has left the ground, and replant in shallow water , under 1-2 inches. Or take cattails seed heads , smash them, and distribute , which would be easier to do a large area.
FCSpringer
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LOL, Yea I would not want to dig all that slop. I suppose now would be the time to collect seed heads.
UGUIDE
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mnmthunting
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1 head has thousands of seeds. Spread them in your wet area. Don't expect much the first year.
captaincoot
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Wildlife guy told me to pick the top and break them open. So I picked 4 -5 gallon pails full and spread them on 3-4 acres ground was white hope I get something
He said fall was best when ground wasn't frooze and right before rain or snow. I'll do a bunch in the spring too just in case
He said fall was best when ground wasn't frooze and right before rain or snow. I'll do a bunch in the spring too just in casecyclonenation10
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Bumping this.. anybody had success doing this? Would like cattails in our retention bonds and boggy areas, however they aren't *always* wet during summers like we recently had with the drought. Is it possible?
dustin mudd
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In chatting again with my wife, wetlands botantist. Cattails can tolerate dryness during fall and winter periods.
sdviking
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We took the tops off of cattails at a slough and then spread them out across the borders of a couple of dug outs. It took two years to get them established but now they are spreading with each year.