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Post by swilk on Dec 1, 2018 15:14:41 GMT -5
What chemical works and what time of the year is best? Honey locust and other tough trees. tynimiller |
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Post by tynimiller on Dec 1, 2018 15:28:30 GMT -5
Arsenal AC or Garlon 3A are main ones recommended. Most recommended late winter or once sap spring boom slows down as heavy sap flow can "wash it out".
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Post by tynimiller on Dec 1, 2018 15:29:29 GMT -5
Gly and Tordon also work. I've literally got a bottle of Gly that is half gly half water...very strong and it will take out most stuff I hack and squirt on that is a sapling or bush.
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Post by swilk on Dec 1, 2018 15:36:50 GMT -5
So....as cheap as gly is anymore I'll go that route to start. January good enough?
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Post by featherduster on Dec 1, 2018 17:19:36 GMT -5
Tordon is a wicked chemical, be very careful how you use it.
If you cut down a tree or brush like Honeysuckle and you apply it to the stump and the roots from that tree or brush come in contact with other roots of plants/trees you will kill or shock those plants also.
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Post by ms660 on Dec 1, 2018 23:38:45 GMT -5
Arsenal AC or Garlon 3A are main ones recommended. Most recommended late winter or once sap spring boom slows down as heavy sap flow can "wash it out". Garlon 3A works real,real,real,real good. It's expensive but you will have dead trees next spring. I take a hatchet and skin some bark back and spray it around the cut. You can mix it with diesel fuel. |
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Post by bartiks on Dec 1, 2018 23:45:04 GMT -5
I used to treat right of ways for electric utilities and we used tordon and garlon with basal oil mixed in. guaranteed to kill any woody vegetation it came into contact with and left the grasses alone. Just had to spray the base of it around 8 inches up or a good coating of the brushy part of the plant would take a little to trickle down to the roots but usually took care of the issue. If you are going to spray it in the spring or what have you definitely add some surfactant to it as it would drift and didn't care what it contacted it would kill it.
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Post by jbird on Dec 3, 2018 18:01:57 GMT -5
I use Tordon...or straight gly. I like the tordon as it is colored and I can see which ones I have done.
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Post by duff on Dec 4, 2018 5:38:43 GMT -5
I have used torodon and killed other trees close by due to leaching from roots. If you don't mind killing surrounding trees then it is cheap and effective. I likely overdosed the stump.
Locust form big groups due to root suckers so maybe a good way to kill a bunch at once.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2018 7:53:47 GMT -5
Thanks Swilk for bring this subject up. All of you have helped me on my improved approach to kill the Asian honeysuckle. I'm going to chainsaw cut down all of them this winter and then early spring use tordon to finish them off. Thanks Jbird on the color identification. I have some that are pushing 10-12" diameters.
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Post by esshup on Dec 5, 2018 1:19:58 GMT -5
I used Garlon to kill some large River Birch trees. I used a roofing hatchet cut down to about 1" wide to make a deep cut into the bark, then squirted the Garlon. I noticed that if I left much more than a few inches of bark between the hack/squirts, the tree took 2 years to die or I had to go back and hit it again. Trees under about 4" diameter I just sprayed the bark 10"-12" above ground level all the way around the tree and they died.
If you are cutting stuff down with a chainsaw, paint the cut ends right away or they might re-grow.
There are oil based and water based chemicals. Garlon is oil based, I believe Tordon is water based. If you are using a water based chemical, you can buy a quart of pond dye and mix some in to see where you sprayed. There is a dye that is used for oil based chemicals and the stuff I have is red in color.
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