Herbicide.

[WhiteRazzy]

When do you actually use it? I'm not entirely sure.

[[CgC] Prophet]

When you have weeds.

[WhiteRazzy]

Originally posted by CgC Prophet:

When you have weeds.

Is there a way to prevent weeds from starting to grow?

[[CgC] Prophet]

Turn off the feature in settings.

[Legion]

The weeds wont grow at all if you spray herbicide right after planting seed. Spray before weeds start to grow.

[DaddyJokee]

When you have weeds past stage 1 of growth. If you wanted to be "realistic" apply it some time in the spring.

[Delle(DK)]

when you fysical stand in your field then there is an info screen in the lower right screen.
If it say weeds then use your tractor and sprayer with herbiside inside.
Alternative you can sprey in advance right after you have seeded.

Also i recommend to put slim tires on your tractor so you avoid destroying your crops.
It depend on the growth stage / how high your crops is on the field if you need the slim tireds or not. If you spray after seeding or while the plants are small you dont need slim tires but later on when the crops get larger you do. If you see the crops destroyed when you drive in the field then you know if you need the slim tires or not ;-)
By the way the first time you use them they will cost you like 1000usd but next time you change your tires then its free to change your wheels since you own them. ;-)
Only small and medium tractors can use slim tires.

Els a way to avoid weeds are to plow your fields but this is a slow method.
And alternative to using the spreyer is to use the special harrow machine that can
remove weeds mechanical. You can however only use this while the plants are small BUT its a pretty nice machine that you NEVER have to fill with herbesides so it can be an economic good way to kill weeds in the long term. ( sorry i cant remember the right name of the machine )

[=M$= Oroberus]

Nope ... nope nope nope nope ... all wrong ... as Giants ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up (yes, weeds too)

You COULD use herbicide when you get weeds, lowering them by 1 stage ... OR you could spray herbicide right after you drilled and prevent any weeds from growing ... yes, it doesn't work this way IRL, yes, it's unbalanced to do so ... but hey, giants doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥ how it's done or what actual balancing looks like, so go ahead and just spray right after you drilled and you won't get any weeds what so ever, this way you can spare cultivating too, just use a direct drill and spray right after you drilled

Small life hack on top:
1. direct drill (also gives you a fert stage, even if you don'T have fert loaded)
2. liquid fert (so your field turns dark - you'll see at 3. why)
3. spray herbicide (so your field turns bright again and even though you wouldn'T see where you already sprayed, because you fertilized beforehand, you now will again see where you already have sprayed)

[WhiteRazzy]

So far ended up finding a much better solution. Just used a roller right after seeding, didn't have any weeds all through the growth stages with no herbicide being used at all.

[Legion]

Originally posted by WhiteRazzy:

So far ended up finding a much better solution. Just used a roller right after seeding, didn't have any weeds all through the growth stages with no herbicide being used at all.

Gonna try this from now on, much cheaper option.

[WhiteRazzy]

Originally posted by Legion:

Originally posted by WhiteRazzy:

So far ended up finding a much better solution. Just used a roller right after seeding, didn't have any weeds all through the growth stages with no herbicide being used at all.

Gonna try this from now on, much cheaper option.

Just tried it again, ended up getting 50% weeds but a weeder gets rid of that. Much cheaper than using herbicide, and on top of that, the roller gives you a 5% yield boost as well. Not much but adds up.

[Cellfire]

i use it right after seeding. Prevents all weeds from growing.

Other use once weeds grow to remove/kill them

[Gopher]

use weeder on first growth stage, if weeds get past 25% you can't ever get them back to zero