05-28-2008, 04:43 AM
Not trying to be difficult or contrary here (it just comes naturally I guess) but my point is that it is counterproductive to waste time talking about mechanical means of dealing with strawberry guava. It is so invasive and easily spread and there is so much area that is rough and unreachable on any practical level that talking about finding a use for it or hand grubbing it, or bulldozing it, is foolish. We either live with it, find a very specific poison for it that can be spread form the air, or find a very specific organism that will plague it. I have not heard of any poison that would do the job specifically enough. That leaves biocontrol or living with it.