Chainsaw time

weekender21

weekender21

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Timing didn’t work out for a late season hunt but I’m 36 hours out from running a saw and that seems just as good. Most of the trees I’m cutting this trip will be saplings up to 8” dbh. I’d like to compare the two products pictured below on cut stumps (41% gly vs. 13.6% Triclopyr/trichloro/pyridinyloxyacetic acid/butoxyethyl ester).

Two questions:

1) how close to apple trees can I spray stumps with either.
2) would either product kill tree of heaven. If so, spray stump or basil treatment?

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Tree of heaven is not listed on either label, that probably answers that question.

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Long as you don't cut the apple tree and spray its stump, I don't see distance being a concern. The other, no clue. I use gly all the time.
 
THE LLC said:
Long as you don't cut the apple tree and spray its stump, I don't see distance being a concern. The other, no clue. I use gly all the time.
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Yes, being close to apple trees is a big problem, especially with triclopyr. Tree roots can have shoots close to the surface away from the tree that will suck up that triclopyr and transfer it to the main tap root, and fruit trees are very fragile, not hardy at all as far as fending off small amounts of herbicide.
 
THE LLC said:
But glyphosate will not do that.
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The orchard guys tell me that gly won't penetrate the soil like triclopyr, but it will kill a tree if the tree has any root suckers coming through the surface. Commercial orchards won't spray glyphosate under their trees. They use Paraquat (Gramoxone) which kills everything it contacts, but nothing further, so unlike glyphosate it doesn't kill any roots.
 
I was just planning to spray the stump of cut trees with a small spray bottle. I can definitely control where the herbicide goes, just wasn’t sure about the triclopyr spreading from nearby roots.


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