Murphy's Law of horticulture

[dean nelson]

I don't know if this is a thing but if not it should be! It's must state if you plant something somewhere you want it to grow it will die and if something grows where you do not want it to you could literally call in the goddamn Air Force to drop Napalm and agent orange for a decade and that son of a bitch will come back and laugh at you year after year!!!

My specific bitching point on this particular case is various types of flipping trees! It's one thing to have suckers pop up around a parent tree but sweet jesus it gets old cutting various types of trees that have no parent tree within a half a block back to the ground year after year to the point of poisoning them with farm grade Roundup and 24D and yet they just keep coming back. Hell I have one spot I've hit so damn hard almost nothing will grow there.....I would say nothing grows there but the damn ash trees I have apparently came from f****** Chernobyl or something because no apparently is not a word in their vocabulary! But all bitching aside I'd much rather deal with this problem then the snow drifts that were there not to long ago but at least if I poured gasoline on the snowdrift and lit it on fire it would go away because it understands how the world supposed to work but not these goddamn trees they probably just bring marshmallows and think it was fun!

 

[Davy Crockett]

I had a few spots of Leafy Spurge so I had Tordon mixed up and sprayed a few small trees like that , It turned them into dry sticks.

 

[Allen]

So long as you aren't planting another tree within a reasonable distance, Tordon is your friend here. Given its residual effect on trees due to its persistence in the soil, it's a preferred tree killer.

Go to Tractor Supply Co. They carry a Tordon herbicide labeled for brush and other woody growth control.

I also use it for Spurge.

 

[SDMF]

Will Tordon kill a parent tree sending up suckers?

 

[Tikka280ai]

Will Tordon kill a parent tree sending up suckers?

not sure if it would kill it with a light dose but the residual on Toronto 22k is 7 years. so if you are going to spray it remember the location incase you want to plant other broadleaf plants in that area in the future

 

[challenger]

I do think it will because it is in the root of tree

 

[Kentucky Windage]

Tordon will absolutely smoke your trees if applied close enough and at a high enough rate. Suckers form around trees due to scarring. This is most typically caused by wounding the bark around the base of the tree. Lawn mowers and trimmers are to blame most of the time. If you have young trees, it's best to protect the base with plastic tubing of some sort.

 

[deleted member]

Ive got a boxelder growing pretty much right out of my septic tank. I want to kill it. But, i dont want to kill the evergreens that likely also share root space in my drain field. If i just spray the boxelder with tordon, will the evergreens be ok?

 

[guywhofishes]

why not just girdle it?

 

[dean nelson]

So long as you aren't planting another tree within a reasonable distance, Tordon is your friend here. Given its residual effect on trees due to its persistence in the soil, it's a preferred tree killer.

Go to Tractor Supply Co. They carry a Tordon herbicide labeled for brush and other woody growth control.

I also use it for Spurge.

Biggest problem area is the flower bed along the front walk where chemicals are not an option. Cut them back to the ground and or rip them up where possible but they just don't take no for an answer. Just amazing how the same tree can keep coming back for years taking massive hit after hit and laughing it off like it nothing.

 

[Allen]

Dean,

Load a syringe with glyphosate. After you gut a twig off, inject a little glyphosate into the stump. That should help tame the roots from sending more volunteers up.

SDMF, yes. Tordon will put the hurt to pretty much all trees in the area. So spraying of the suckers would suggest that you would kill, or seriously harm at a minimum, the parent tree.

 

[tikkalover]

Remember guys, Tordon is a restricted use herbicide. You need a pesticide license to buy it and use it.

 

[Tikka280ai]

Remember guys, Tordon is a restricted use herbicide. You need a pesticide license to buy it and use it.

yep. I forgot about that. good thing I'm certified haha

 

[Allen]

Remember guys, Tordon is a restricted use herbicide. You need a pesticide license to buy it and use it.

Tordon RTU is one of the non-restricted use variants and is the one intended for killing of trees.

http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/metiram-propoxur/picloram-ext.html

 

[deleted member]

Guy, that ? For me? If so, the suckers will just multiply if i girdle the main trunk i figure. I want to kill it all down to the roots.

 

[Phill Latio]

Ive got a boxelder growing pretty much right out of my septic tank. I want to kill it. But, i dont want to kill the evergreens that likely also share root space in my drain field. If i just spray the boxelder with tordon, will the evergreens be ok?

don't you want to keep all tree roots out of your drainfield?

 

[remm]

If you are looking at getting rid of the tree too, cut it off to a stump, cut grooves in an X on the stump and fill the grooves with cacodylic acid. That will kill the stump and the roots. That's what we used to do when we worked for the city and had to cut down the bazillion dutch elm diseased trees.

now that i researched that acid a little bit, I hope i didn't get too much on me, looks like pretty toxic shit

Guy, that ? For me? If so, the suckers will just multiply if i girdle the main trunk i figure. I want to kill it all down to the roots.

 

[deleted member]

Yes. I would prefer all roots were killed. But, at this point, i know its a lost cause as its likely pretty inundated with them. And i am not willing to kill 20 evergreen trees. So was wondering if the turdon could or would somehow make it to the evergreens if i tried to just kill the boxelder.