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Milk weed

479Bowhunter

479Bowhunter

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At what point do I start pulling the pods off the vine?
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Are you sure that’s milkweed? Milkweed isn’t a vine as far as I know.


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Milk weed actually does have a vine variety! My DNR calls it sand vine I believe So far I have found out it’s best to do so when they naturally start drying
 
rhagenw said:
Milk weed actually does have a vine variety! My DNR calls it sand vine I believe So far I have found out it’s best to do so when they naturally start drying
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Good to know there’s some varieties out there!

I just knocked a ton of weeds down out of my ponds banks and some milkweed was in there. I grabbed the pods I could find before throwing the rest on the burn pile. The pods are still way green. Hoping they’ll dry out naturally and won’t grow mold first.


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I’m guessing there are lots of varsities. This ones called honey vine milkweed.


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thats the kind i have here growing on a fence, dont even think its flowering yet. il have to go look.
 
The ones I pick while they are still green I just keep them spaced out from each other on the work bench with 80% luck of not molding
 
You could probably wait a while. They'll dry on the vine before splitting. If you're impatient, they'd probably work fine if harvested now.
 
I tried collecting green milkweed and drying it myself. It didn't work nearly as well as waiting until it opens naturally (much fluffier that way). We have a red and black beetle here that loves it and you'll find them in your milk weed bag.
 
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