What herbicide have any of you all used to kill bush honeysuckle by spraying on the foliage? It is starting to become a nuisance around my house and i need to kill some

Tordon

I would stay away from Tordon, it is bad for tulip and other trees in the same area. I lost some sawtooth oaks that were close to a stump I treated with it. Roundup, 2-4-D, Crossbow, Triclopyr 3, would be a better choice.

Thank you

are they very small?

if they have any size to them , cut and put the herbicide on the fresh cut

Use a little Dawn dishwashing liquid mixed in the herbicide. This will get through the wax or thick leaves. Works great on poison ivy, Honey suckle, Green briars, and really great on pond lily pads.

Bush honeysuckle pulls rather easy and it won't come back. Even for its size, the root system does not go very deep usually and with a little force can be physically removed. A skidsteer makes quick work of them just by rolling them up with a bucket but even 5-7 footers can be hand pulled

I pop them out with the skid steer.
Burning will kill small ones.
I used Garlon for three years. You have to soak the whole plant then it's iffy. Used glyphosate- same thing. Spraying has to be done at the right time or it won't work.
The skid steer always works.

Triclopyr when they are good and leafed out in the spring. Too early and the leaves just keep pushing out (lesson learned last spring). Tried the late fall spray last fall when they are about the only thing with leaves. Used glyphosate, checked today and think it actually did the trick. This is for spraying a lot with a backpack/pump sprayer. Small amounts I would cut and spray the stump with a diesel/triclopyr mixture.

Goats before I sold the heard.

i will pull the bigger ones with my little tractor and loader and spray the smaller ones and the ones i can't get the tractor to. Thanks to all

I propagated some slips and now have one hec of a growth of them rascals. Fertilize it and the deer will show up to browse on it. far better than any food plot if you are where you can get it to grow abundantly. we can down here. up north I dont know.

Tordon

Getting rid of it is a long term commitment, the seeds can lay on the ground for up to 10 yrs till conditions are right and they sprout. Very easy to pull up by hand for like 5 yrs, then you need tools. Very large plants can be killed by cutting them off close to the ground, then spritzing the stump with round-up. I've found they rarely sink a tap root, they mostly have a "Hand Print" type root system. If you cut them off several feet above the ground to leave a "Handle", then chop around the stump and you can easily pull up the stump.

1st try pulling it.

Don't use Tordon--too risky to nearby desirable trees

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