Hey Gals and Guys...

I have a tight bunch of redbuds, that are like a stump. I have been trying to get rid of it for several years with not much luck. To start with I tried spraying it with brush killer and all that happened was the leaves fell off and a month later it started sprouted new shoots both from the plant and from the roots. Next, I pruned it back to the point of where it mostly a stump about 2 feet in diameter. In the spring it started all over again... I sprayed it with a different make of brush killer... The same as before. I thought about pouring kerosene on it and starting a fire with the help of a little gas.... but decided that wasn't very good because the area it is in is only 9 feet wide with my utilities shed on one side and the neighbors wood fence on the other side, with the main power line to my house in about 10 to 12 feet overhead.

So, with no BS, can anyone give me a solution to the problem. I need to get rid of it now and I can't swing an axe any longer. What can I use to denude this whole area?

Thank you for any assistance.

Garry-

I would say to start a small fire with sticks and whatnot on top, and keep it going good, but small. If it's still green it won't burn very good, but maybe you can kill it. If the stump is tall, build your fire all the way around it. Hoping to help!

Dump a pile of charcoal on it and light it up.

Cut it back to just a stump and treat with Tordon. Redbuds are the reproducingest trees I have ever seen. Have a large redbud in the corner of my yard and hundreds of sprouts everywhere.

Get with someone how's got a stump grinder.... work out a trade ....

This. Tordon will take care of it

Neighbor lady had unwanted trees along her wall so I cut them low and poured Tordon in the holes no more trees. It works!

This!

When given lemons, make lemonade, at least sort of. Cut the bottom out of a bucket, put it over the trees coming out of the stump and put in about 6 inches of dirt. Wait 2 months, remove the bucket, brush off the dirt. Cut the rooted saplings as close to the stump as possible. Pot them up and sell them for $10.00 to $20.00 each.

Keith

Thanks guys... I think Tordon is the answer. Will it kill brush that is cut or does it have to have an open wound to get into the sap-stream?

Thank you all...

Garry-

Used alot of chemicals on brush and trees , but haven't used Tordon. I agree that it would be your best option. To answer your question, I know it's advised to keep your injections into the cut with minimal runoff. Root uptake by surrounding plants, and a lengthy soil activity time is an issue.

Take a old 55 gal drum, cut the bottom out and place over the stump, then knock some ventilation holes all through the sides....Then dump a couple bags of charcoal in it.

Take the lid and cut a hole for some metallic dyer vent hose, and grey tape a electric leaf blower to one end of the hose with the other end stuck through the lid, about a foot into the interior of the drum.

Light the charcoal, turn on the leaf blower and you have a stump burner from hades...It will even burn the roots down in the ground.

Tordon: Small tree sprouts you can spray (I put it in a spray bottle) on the leaves/trunk but it gets kind of expensive. Just cut around the trunk low= girdle it (depends on the tree variety but 6-12" up should do it. Locusts will sometimes resprout low if cut too high)and spray tordon around on the cut. It can be light=just enough to see there is blue all the way around. Can use a chainsaw or just hack through the bark with an axe=just give it a wack and rotate the axe to open the cut a little. Tordon will kill everything dead if girdled. Exceptions=locusts and hickory that aren't completely girdled and sprayed. Give them an inch of bark not cut and sprayed and they will keep living through that little piece. I have used a lot of tordon and have read about it affecting other trees. Have never seen this. My only thought is if you use the squeeze applicator it comes with on the girdle or stump, put it on heavy, and it is really running it may affect other trees. It is powerful enough that is a waste. Get a spray bottle. I always use rubber gloves. Can cut the tree off and spray around the outside inch or so of the stump too. It is powerful=don't need much. Other exception is walnuts. Girdle a walnut in the winter if it is sunny and warm, or spring/summer and the water being pushed up will just push out the tordon.

Use Tordon. But don't spray. Drill hokes and fill them with the chemical.You need to get it to the roots.
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