Tree of heaven

[weekender21]

How do I kill it effectively while avoiding new sprouts? I’ve heard this one can be hard to kill.

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[massey]

From my experience they may be impossible to kill. I “killed”one dead with Tordon about 8 years ago. It was just a stump. This spring I saw one growing in same place, so I went over to check it out and damned if it wasn’t coming out of same stump. Unreal.


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[brad shipe]

I've killed hundreds and hundreds of those bastards through my management plan in west virginia. Straight Garlon 3a. No mixing . Fill up some squirt bottles, take a hatchet and and hatchet around the tree and immediately squirt or two in each hatchet wound. I spaced hatchet wounds every 3 inches apart around the diameter. About chest height. Killed some large trees also. Total kill. Then following year early summer come thru with backpack sprayer full of gly and spray the foliage on the little bastards that are still there. I killed off a hell of grove. I hate those things lol. Good luck.

 

[Mennoniteman]

A little more work but if you want to make 100% sure that they are dead cut them off with a chainsaw and spray the stump with a mixture of 1/3 triclopyr and 2/3 diesel fuel and there guaranteed won't be any stump sprouts ever.

 

[weekender21]

What’s the best time of year to cut and treat the stump?


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[Mennoniteman]

What’s the best time of year to cut and treat the stump?


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The best time is when you are standing beside the tree with a Stihl in your hand. I don't think that there is a bad time to do this. I asked a forester with a degree, and he said winter is just as good or better than summer.

 

[lindseymorgan]

They always come back somehow...

 

[Mennoniteman]

They always come back somehow...

They came after you sprayed the stump with triclopyr?

 

[weekender21]

I’m an idiot.

At least some (probably all) of my “tree of heaven” are actually native sumac. I had no idea they looked so similar.


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[massey]

I’d rather be an idiot with sumac than a genius with ailanthus.


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[weekender21]

I’d rather be an idiot with sumac than a genius with ailanthus.


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Can’t argue with that.


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[Charleston Treeman]

Cut with a chainsaw and paint the stump with a 50/50 mix of triclopyr and basal oil (diesel works too ). Winter is better than the summer for stump cutting.

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