Any experience using Dr Craig Harpers cocktail in freezing weather.

[Catscratch]

My experience with cold weather spraying is with diesel and (whatever) herbicide I'm using. Trees will usually leaf out in the spring and look like the applications didn't work. But a couple of months later the tree dies.

 

[Telemark]

Do you find tordon to thick for anything but cut stump? Thought about adding diesel because works best for black locas.

Never thought about thickness. I use it for cut stump and girdling. I use it sparingly because of its persistence. Generally I only use it on trees I've already tried to kill but for some reason they didn't totally die.

I don't kill black locust. Even though it's pokey and inconvenient, I find it to be a great late season food source for deer and other wildlife.

 

[BC Buck]

My experience with cold weather spraying is with diesel and (whatever) herbicide I'm using. Trees will usually leaf out in the spring and look like the applications didn't work. But a couple of months later the tree dies.

Had some hickory thinking just that. Oct sitten in treestand and some looked just like trees not treated. Thats when decided to try different herbicide.

 

[BC Buck]

Had some hard maple that took years of herbicide before death. Dont know what works best on hard maple and only had few trees.

 

[Telemark]

Had some hard maple that took years of herbicide before death. Dont know what works best on hard maple and only had few trees.

That's one of the trees I struggle with. The other is Callery pear.

It's unbelievable how difficult it can be to kill a big mature hard maple. I've been working on one for 3 years. Double ringed it with a chainsaw one year, no observable effect. Next year, ringed it again and squirted gly and 2,4-D in the wound, no noticeable difference. This year I cut deep into it with a chainsaw and squirted Tordon into it. We'll see next summer how it worked.

 

[omicron1792]

That's one of the trees I struggle with. The other is Callery pear.

It's unbelievable how difficult it can be to kill a big mature hard maple. I've been working on one for 3 years. Double ringed it with a chainsaw one year, no observable effect. Next year, ringed it again and squirted gly and 2,4-D in the wound, no noticeable difference. This year I cut deep into it with a chainsaw and squirted Tordon into it. We'll see next summer how it worked.

Why Craig’s cocktail exists. A chainsaw girdle with his cocktail and that tree is dead year one.

 

[BC Buck]

That's one of the trees I struggle with. The other is Callery pear.

It's unbelievable how difficult it can be to kill a big mature hard maple. I've been working on one for 3 years. Double ringed it with a chainsaw one year, no observable effect. Next year, ringed it again and squirted gly and 2,4-D in the wound, no noticeable difference. This year I cut deep into it with a chainsaw and squirted Tordon into it. We'll see next summer how it worked.

Two years double ring and Remedy. My bet trodon will kill. MO department conservation talked me into killing few I had. Really regret doing it. Those are beautiful trees and have best fall colors in MO.

 

[Telemark]

Two years double ring and Remedy. My bet trodon will kill. MO department conservation talked me into killing few I had. Really regret doing it. Those are beautiful trees and have best fall colors in MO.

I have too many of them. Over a hundred acres of maple-beech forest, which is considered "climax mesic closed-canopy" forest. The ones I'm trying to kill are for the sake of releasing some red oaks in order to get more acorn production. But yes, in the fall, from the lake, it is gorgeous.

 

[Telemark]

Why Craig’s cocktail exists. A chainsaw girdle with his cocktail and that tree is dead year one.

I'm going to Tractor Supply tomorrow to get more triclopyr ester.

 

[BC Buck]

1 gal Imazapyr 4sl 160.00
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