Thank you so much, I live in Florida and have been trying to help my 95 y/o Dad with his beautiful garden. I didn’t know over the years I had been cutting a weed back until I was told and realized it was also pulling off one of the gutters. Dad; has passed on to a better place ( I pray). Now I hope I can fix this problem. I’m a northern woman and at least I’ve learned a lot more about butterfly gardens here!
Thank you very much for this information, I have a Mexican Palo Verde tree growing in my back yard right against a cinder block wall that separates my property from the neighbors in the back and I’m very concerned that it may compromise the wall if it gets too big.
That's too bad! A nice tree. I have never tried to kill one or read about it. I would assume the cut stump method would work for such a woody. When you apply be sure to contact the outer perimeter of the cut stump. Here's our short video on doing a cut stump treatment: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MJYDWQTkQqc.html I would do the treatment in the tree's dormant season.
Do you want to cut it down? If so, i would use the cut stump treatment method. If you want to leave it standing, use the cut and fill method. Check out this video: How to Kill a Tree that Is Invasive or Unwanted ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZZzUu0TZCds.html Our small kit would work great on this.
Will applying it into the roots work for the tree ? I have a tree on council land I want gone right near my property, it’s a hazard , drops large branches on my property, they will only remove it if it’s dead
There are root absorbed chemicals but I strongly advise homeowners not to use them at their residences because they will also harm other nearby plants.
I had a similar situation. I found some roots that have come into my garden. I drilled holes along the 2 roots and kept filling the holes with glyphosate. As it absorbed kept filling the holes. continued for 1 hour. Would have used about 100ml. A week later the leaves started falling. the tree is dying. By the way, I did this in springtime.
I have numerous small Tree of Heaven saplings (1" to 3 or 4" in diameter) coming up between fences. They are difficuly to reach to hack. Will KillzAll foam spray work as a foliar application? I also want to use it for a hack and squirt technique on some larger Trees of Heaven. Thanks!
Mike - yes the Green Shoots foam herbicide system can be used to do foliar applications. However, how tall are these tree-of-heaven (TOH) stems? It sounds like they might be quite tall. If so, doing a foliar application could lead to substantial drift of the herbicide.
@@mikehenry01 great. Those can work for doing a foliar foam treatment. Can you reach the tree of heaven (TOH) stems? Basically what I recommend is bending the stems (without breaking them off) inward and downward from both sides of the fences. You want to create a denser, shorter stand of TOH so you can spray downward toward the foliage. The TOH can also be bent into clumps. Are there any desirable plants between the fences you can preserve? If so bend the TOH away from those desirables.
I do not as you can tell from my videos! Therefore, be sure to consult local expertise. I would consider doing any cut tissue treatment (cut stump, cut-and-treat, etc.) in the dry season. The cut stem will most likely suck the herbicide down to the roots at that time. One good source to consult is: Invasive Species Compendium - CABI. Google it.
Thank you. Liked and subbed. Can you tell me what product to kill very large and tall bamboo in PA, how to apply it, and when. Thanks again. Happy to buy a kill kit from you.
Thank you! Pleas check out our video How to Kill Bamboo: 3 Steps ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1V7-mmi-QB0.html . I think you'll find it very helpful.
Will brush killer work? If I drill holes downward and.keep filling them with it? My neighbors tree is half dead and taking out my fences every time I fix it.
yes, that should work, but why do you want to treat the roots? It's better to treat the above-ground stem or trunk. You want to treat the stem around the entire circumference. Doing that with a root is difficult. Also you would have to treat roots all around the tree.
I don't have any particular insights on this unfortunately. I assume glyphosate or triclopyr based herbicides would work. I would use the cut stump method.
You listed 3 mistakes, I have probably done at least 2 of them, no wonder I was mocked by friends, spent 100's dollars for roundup without seeing any result. Ha, I should say, thanks. I was drilling a long deep hole in stump near ground then pour in roundup.
Yes, there is. We don't sell a product, but you can buy copper sulfate. It will kill the roots but won't remove them. Roto Rooter has a good webpage explaining what to do. You might have to call a service to clean out the line.
Will this product kill a 30Ft Plus tree (Maple or Oak Leaf) with about a 8-12" Diameter? Will this product kill a 50FT plus tree (Maple and/or Oak Leaf) with about a 20-36" Diamater?
Yes, it can, but I would definitely have a tree service remove the trees first. You can then treat the stump. Normally, you want to only treat only treat the live inner bark of freshly cut stumps. With really big trees this is hard because it takes so long to cut them down. However, there are ways with a chisel or other tools to expose the live inner bark on large stump. I will do a video on this in the future.
I've heard that roots can survive, even with the tree cut down. I just bought my house, and noticed a very dead looking stump with burn marks upon it. Can anything be done to kill any possibly living roots?🤔
Yes, if the cut stump is still alive it could resprout. When you remove parts of the bark (by scraping it away for example), can you see living tissue inside the bark? If so, the stump is still alive and will resprout.
I used glyphosate to control beech using cut stump treatment for a USDA contract in my forest. What is the half life of glyphosate? How quick does it break down?
Great question KN! Here's a quote from a Fact Sheet on glyphosate from the National Pesticide Information Center: "The median half-life of glyphosate in soil has been widely studied; values between 2 and 197 days have been reported in the literature. A typical field half-life of 47 days has been suggested. Soil and climate conditions affect glyphosate's persistence in soil." Glyphosate ultimately breaks down to carbon dioxide. Bear in mind, too, that glyphosate adsorbs tightly to soil so it should not be mobile in your soils. Here's the link to the Fact Sheet. It's excellent - very easy to read: npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/glyphotech.html
Can I just drill one hole to a big tree to inject the roundup? Trunk is more than 1 feet in diameter, about 5,6 meters tall. It is a re-sprouting type of tree, never die. Would that one hole injection kill the tree? Slow kill is ok, even better. Or do I need to drill a second, third holes in different fall for injection to fully kill it? I can only drill holes on one side of tree, and don't want it very obvious.
I can't reach the main bark to administer the injection, but the tree has smaller branches about 3 inches in thickness can I hack and squirt those branches instead?
It might work but probably not. You really need to apply the herbicide to the main stem at a point where there are no branches below the injection site. Can you cut the lower branches off so you can reach the main stem(s)?
Yes, you can do a cut and fill or "hack and squirt" application. Check out this RU-vid video: How to Kill a Tree without Cutting It Down, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tpWgMyf_gyc.html
@@anglosaxon244 You need a freshly cut stump for the herbicide to work. For small stumps that are not freshly cut but are still alive, I would recommend re-cutting the stump a little bit lower. If the stump is large, then you can expose live plant tissue by using a chisel to peel back the bark around the perimeter of the stump face and applying the foam herbicide to that exposed live, inner bark. Does that answer your question?
Kamal - check out any of our three videos on killing a tree: How to Kill a Tree without Cutting It Down ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tpWgMyf_gyc.html Hack and Squirt - The Easiest Way to Kill a Weed Tree! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6C1TsItX1Wg.html How to Kill a Tree that Is Invasive or Unwanted ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZZzUu0TZCds.html
am also not sure whether all products in the video are available in India my part. is it okay I use copper sulphate mixing with water and follow the procedures shown in the video ? pls let me know
You should check with an arborist or someone who has expertise in tree removal or tree pruning. There probably are videos online too but be careful. Removing and pruning a big tree can be dangerous.
With most herbicides available to consumers, you will want to treat live, exposed tissue. This will be easier with treating the trunk of the tree. Either by cutting down the tree and treating the stump or cutting chips from the stem and treating the exposed live inner bark.
@@LG-nh4bs - Yes, Tordon work. I personally use it very rarely because it has so much "soil activity" - in other words, it can kill things you don't want to kill. This is especially true if you are restoring an area with new plants.
I added glyphosate into a sweetgum and it went down and out the root killing the grass but not the tree. Does this mean that root should be dead but the other living roots are keeping the tree alive? Hmmm disappointed. Obviously it went where it needed to looks like but like I said tree has come to life now dang it grrrr.
Roaddog - Can you be more specific about how you treated the tree and with what strength glyphosate? If you put a regular liquid glyphosate concentrate into cuts in the trunk it probably ran down the side of the tree during a rain and killed the grass. It's unlikely that herbicide seeped from the roots of the sweetgum and killed the grass, especially if the sweetgum was not harmed much. Glyphosate typically does not easily damage neighboring plants through root uptake.
I drilled 1/2" diamerter hole into tree at a 45 degree angle. Applied 41% glyphosate into the hole several times in the winter January to be exact. Around the middle of March the grass started greening up staying brown right on top of the root. My thought was dam it did get to that root but didn't effect the tree. So I assume too many other living roots are still feeding it.
@@roaddog9218 Your timing was perfect. I would recommend using the hack-and-squirt technique because it exposes more live inner bark tissue than drilling. With this you would take a hatchet and hack cuts into the bark around the tree about 1 to 2 feet off the ground. Immediately apply the herbicide into the cut. Make sure the herbicide touches the live inner bark. Leave about a quarter to a half inch between cuts. If you use our foam herbicide, you will have less herbicide running down the trunk of the tree after an application. To be absolutely sure you could wait about 15 minutes after doing one application and apply some more to the same cuts.
You ordered the product, and instructions weren't included? Check our website resources page: www.greenshootsonline.com/pages/resources-test-page There you will see instructions for both the small and large dispensers.
Our product works well for bamboo. Check out our RU-vid video: How to Kill Bamboo: 3 Steps. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1V7-mmi-QB0.html .Good luck!
We have people killing trees on our property and we need someone to figure out what they’re using. They are using many methods and have killed over 500 trees on 200 acres. We know they’re drilling same size holes everywhere but they’re also spraying something on the pines that’s white and causing them to die right away. We need help!!! Please let me know how I can contact you.
@@GreenShoots how long will it take to kill a big tree? The tree is bigger than my two-story house. The root are very thick and are getting near the entrance of my house. Also i haven't been able to grow grass for 3 years because this tree suck up all the water. Do you have a video on the process?
@@ClearanceCouponingDeals If the tree is near your house, i would definitely recommend having it professionally removed. Then you can kill the remaining stump to prevent sprouting from the roots.
There is no solid evidence of that, especially for people who don't apply pesticides as part of their occupation. Risks from other hazards are far greater - particulate matter in the air poses a far greater risk. I know many environmental scientists and ecologists and I attend native area restoration conferences where scientists talk about natural area restoration. I follow the restoration literature carefully. In virtually every large scale restoration, glyphosate is used to kill non-native plants. These scientists are careful but they would not use glyphosate at all if they thought it posed a significant risk to themselves or their coworkers.
@@GreenShoots So if i "just" took a needle and filled it with Roundup and drilled or cut a hole in through the thick bark of a kinda big Oak Tree i got, would it then die (assuming i did it in the Fall some time after Summer) ? And kept filling Roundup in the drill hole with the needle once a week?...
@@MR-04 I am not sure how effective that would be. Each time you create a wound like a hole in the live bark, a tree will try to seal off that wound. If the tree is fully dormant (as it is in winter in temperate climates), perhaps that tree won't be able to seal the wound. However, just to be sure, I would cut a new hole each time i did an application.
Yes, most definitely. I am glad you raised this. Take a look at our RU-vid video on Tree-of-Heaven. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DckA0_Jn3rE.html
