Chinese tallow tree and remedy ultra

[Josef]

Does anyone have any experience using remedy ultra on Chinese tallow trees. The directions say to spray foliage but the tallow trees are usually in there pretty tight with my oaks. I had one older gentleman tell me to just spray the 1st few feet of the trunk. He had not done this but he knew people who had. Little tallow trees are no problem, it's the bigger ones 15 to 20 feet growing in my Creek bed.

 

[skeets]

Are you trying to kill them off?

 

[Russell King]

Yes the are the scourge of Texas along with the Chinaberry!

What you can do is just cut the tree down and paint the cut trunk with round up (I prefer just glyphosate with purple top).

You can also chop into the trunk slightly and paint the damage with the herbicide if you want to watch it die over time


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[Josef]

Yes the are the scourge of Texas along with the Chinaberry!

What you can do is just cut the tree down and paint the cut trunk with round up (I prefer just glyphosate with purple top).

You can also chop into the trunk slightly and paint the damage with the herbicide if you want to watch it die over time


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Thanks much, I had never heard that. Cutting them down is out as I'm handicapped and have no business using a chain saw. I have a really sharp hatchet and will give that a try. I have a lot of Chinese tallow trees but no Chinaberry trees so don't send me any thank you. Maybe Skeets will want some of both.

 

[D2Cat]

I'd think you could take your hatchet and take a couple of wacks at the side of them critters to open them up just a bit. Then give them a spritz with a spray bottle of RTU, (that's Ready To Use Tordon). They'll give up the ghost, then you can get some young (grandson) to cut and clear!

 

[skeets]

ahhuuuummmm Gee thanks Josef, but have to pass,, Im still trying to kill this (*^%&@#^%@)#~_()@*&% bamboo off.. Everything is brown after the winter I dont know if I made any head way or not,,, one can always hope I guess

 

[armylifer]

Skeets, here you are trying to kill off bamboo and I am trying to get some to grow. I guess we all have our own special scourge. Mine is blackberry brush.

 

[skeets]

DONT DO IT !!!!!! Once it becomes established it grows every where. The guy I got my root stock from started by panting it in a box 12 inches deep so at least 8 inches was underground,, the roots bored through the wood. Bamboo, bad juju

 

[armylifer]

Skeets, I hear you, and I have heard near the same from several people but believe it or not, that is exactly what we want. The area of my property that I want it to grow in is infested with blackberry brush. I want some bamboo to grow there to choke out the blackberry brush.

I have a neighbor that sprayed all of it that is on his side of the fence, trying to kill the blackberries but all he really succeeded in doing was killing two of my 100 year old cedar trees. The problem is that it is very difficult to kill blackberries with poison. The only successful way that I have seen to permanently get rid of them is to plant something that will choke them out.

 

[Russell King]

Look at these two videos on you tube for methods to kill trees

How To Kill a Tree | Hack and Squirt

Three Methods for Controlling Trees and Brush

The Texas A&M system has a lot of useful info - they often recommend adding diesel to the herbicide. I know it is often sprayed on Johnson grass but I have not added it to herbicide, but I guess if you use off-road dyed diesel it would work as the marker to show where you sprayed also


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[skeets]

I used,,eerrrrr I heard of a guy that mixed diesel with Roundup to kill wild roses. It was pretty effective when the roses were in bloom, not so much after the flowers were gone. I would think it would work on Blackberries as well when the flowers were out. kinda like mixing flybait with grape soda for coon and critter control around your chickens. It works but is not condoned by anyone

 

[Josef]

In my younger days, my next door neighbor used waste oil for keeping his fence line clear. When we had a big rain, it floated and wiped out lots of yards. Always concerns me when I hear about mixing diesel with something. I'M talking about large use of diesel. My neighbor has lots of rose hedge and using a large sprayer is spraying his rose hedge. I don't know enough about diesel to be concerned but would hate for a large rain to wipe my pasture grass out like the oil did.

 

[D2Cat]

Josef, I can't imagine "waste oil" used on a fence line would wipe out several yards because of a rain. The person had to have mixed something with the oil. I have see where someone used a soil sterilant to prevent growth and a rain will do as you describe.

I often dump drained motor oil onto the top of some RR ties I use for a retainer to redirect rain water. The ties are buried one layer deep and the top is only a few inches from grass. I have never had an incident where the oil washed off and destroyed grass.

When use a herbicide to spray, whether adding diesel or not, only requires a light coating. I use a qt. spray bottle with tordon when I cut a locust or hedge tree to keep regrowth from happening. I only need to spray the outer edge of the stump. Guessing, it probably takes less than a 1/2 oz for a 12-15" dia tree!