Re: Getting Rid of Buckthorn
[Re: squacks]
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12/24/19 01:12 PM
12/24/19 01:12 PM
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Lot of different kinds of Buckthorn but you can do an amazing job on the "buckbrush" around here with just regular 2, 4-D LV when the leaves are just starting and before the waxy cuticle gets thick. It's normally about the middle 2 weeks in May in my area (just about same latitude with Des Moines). Guys around here spray it 2 years and it's gone where grass and other vegetation is allowed to grow. Any other time of year 2, 4-D just makes it mad.
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Re: Getting Rid of Buckthorn
[Re: Donnersurvivor]
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12/24/19 01:25 PM
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have you tried cutting about 6 inches above ground and glyphosate stump killer painted on the cut every time you see one.
likely to be a constant struggle of maintenance but allows you a solution to kill them any time as you see them.
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Re: Getting Rid of Buckthorn
[Re: Donnersurvivor]
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12/24/19 01:44 PM
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1 gallon of diesel fuel mixed with a quart of remedy ultra. Spray from the ground up 18 inches or so during the growing season. I havent seen anything that will survive this.
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” — Thomas Paine
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Re: Getting Rid of Buckthorn
[Re: Donnersurvivor]
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12/24/19 05:11 PM
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You want to do a basal bark spray with the mixture I gave you. It will kill roots and all. Just spray the bottom 24 -18 inches of it. Dont cut it off or nothing before it is completely dead. By doing is this way it will keep it off neighboring plants and stuff you want to keep.
Last edited by Ohiowoodchuck; 12/24/19 05:12 PM.
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Re: Getting Rid of Buckthorn
[Re: Donnersurvivor]
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12/25/19 10:44 AM
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Agent Orange will do the job. I don't think it is exactly the same thing but pretty close to the stuff that power companies use to spray their power line, right of ways.
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Re: Getting Rid of Buckthorn
[Re: danvee]
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12/25/19 11:56 AM
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The power company around here was using garlon 4 which is just a little hotter then remedy ultra. I've used remedy ultra to kill acres of tree of heaven, I usually check it for 3 years in a row as I'm bound to miss one or two here and there. The problem I've experienced with cutting stuff off and then spraying is that it starts sending up sprouts and root suckers immediately, so even though I just got the main part i was after I'll have many more take its place.
Last edited by Ohiowoodchuck; 12/25/19 12:01 PM.
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” — Thomas Paine
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Re: Getting Rid of Buckthorn
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12/25/19 04:09 PM
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I am really wondering if anyone has had long term success? Since I was a little kid I have been cutting this stuff down and my dad has been spraying it but within a couple years it is back. Is it inevitable that this is a once every couple year project? The City of Minnetonka had a seminar on Buckthorn, and I went to it. The forester said to cut it with a pruner, and paint on Roundup (at least 10%...I used 50/50) mixed with water. My 50/50 mix of water and Roundup, painted on with a small paintbrush, killed every plant that got it. Worked for me...
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