nothing kills myrtles

[dieselbeef]

roundup/glyco@51%/dzl/gas..none of it worked. didnt try mixing all that together tho :lol:

need something to spray on em w/o cutting them down first. way too many for that in bad spots

used motor oil is comin next
im over these things :bang:

 

[dun]

What about Remedy or Surmount?

 

[Bigfoot]

I feel your pain. Moby Dick should have been about me and honey locust instead of ahab and a whale. I will be reading your responses, and might use them on locust.

 

[dieselbeef]

havent tried either. hey dun are they oil based? ive neen lookin online and see that oil based ones work the best if sprayed under the foliage onto the lower trunk. use a surfactant and remedy? im almost to the point i dont care about the cost.
i didnt know that part when i sprayed but all the stuff ive used on em nothin has touched em..didnt even wilt em. i sprayed foliage tho not under onto the trunk.
dig em up...run em over...mow em..roots come back...hate em hate em hate em
brazilian pepper is just as bad ..ive cut them off at the grnd..2 yrs there 10 ft tall again...

 

[ddd75]

try spraying with diesel then hit them with a torch



Bigfoot -- crossbow mixed with diesel works everytime on my honey locusts.

 

[cowgirl8]

You cant even dig them up, they come back up 3 fold..

 

[ga.prime]

If you're talking about wax myrtles, they are easily killed with Element 4. Mix up 1 qt of Element 4 and 1 to 2 pints of surfactant per 10 gallons of water. Spray on all the foliage, not just some of the foliage. Don't put any diesel, gas, or glyphos in it and don't burn it because that don't do crap. Remedy and Element 4 are the same thing, Element 4 just costs a lot less.

 

[dun]

Don;t know about the oil base. For tough to kill woody stuff that has any size to it I use remedy and diesel and do a basal spray. Surmount all I've done is foliar spray with water. The rmemdy basal spray is the only thing that has worked on locust up to 16 inch DBH. If it's less then a finger in diameter I just do a water/remedy foliar spray.

 

[dieselbeef]

non systemics are all that is recommended.

wax myrtle/crepe myrtles. the shiny bushes that grow out of a bunch of little trunks and get way too big to mow down. break easily tho. brittle..not that it does any good..they grow right back.

element 4..ill try it...nothing else has worked. thanks..theyre gettin as bad as dog fennel out here

 

[ga.prime]

That's wax myrtles you're describing. Crepe myrtles are the pink/purple/red/white blooming trees that are blooming right now and are planted up and down streets and in people's yards in every town you drive through. Get that El 4 on all the foliage and it'll kill those wax myrtles deader than a hammer. Make sure to use surfactant, the wax myrtle leaves are waxy and you need the surfactant to get the spray solution to stick to them. I have a spray tank on the back of my 4 wheeler and I use the hand held spray wand on the myrtles because some of them are pretty tall and you need to spray all the way to the top. Sometimes I have to drive all the way around them to get all the foliage. Two or three weeks or a month after spraying, go back and if any of it still looks green, hit the green part again because you missed it the first time.

 

[dieselbeef]

thats sounds good to me how bout this stuff. same concentration of triclo

http://www.amazon.com/Agri-Star-Triclop ... ZAEZT59Y94

 

[dieselbeef]

i planted crepes actualy on my front fence to cover traffic noise...they dont grow as good as them other ones..wax ones are the worst.
im on it...

 

[ga.prime]

That's it you linked to on Amazon db, 61% triclopyr, same as El 4 and Remedy.

 

[BC]

I have used this surfactant with success on waxy leaf plants - Cide Kick II.

http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/produ ... p?mi=18911

 

[Jogeephus]

Ditto, good surfactant is key to killing waxy leafed weeds.

 

[dieselbeef]

i gt some already. fer sure be using it..

 

[Jogeephus]

Follow GP's suggestion and don't mix too hot and don't add a bunch of stuff to it to make it hot else you will simply burn the plant and it will not give the chemical enough time to actually work. You can add roundup to it but don't exceed 1.5-2 quarts/acre. Also best to spray at least 20 - 30 gallons of solution per acre to insure good coverage.

 

[Angus Cowman]

I feel your pain. Moby Dick should have been about me and honey locust instead of ahab and a whale. I will be reading your responses, and might use them on locust.

Remedy or Tordon both work on locust
Best time to spray locust is in late summer early fall when sap is just starting to go down

On small sprouts you can spray in the spring

Tordon works real well on stump treatment
I cut a big locust down 18" across the stump
Made a nith in top of stump poured Tordon in notch killed every locust tree with in 75 ft of that stump

 

[Angus Cowman]

DB
Round up isnt very effective on brushy or woody type plants it is a grass killer
So sounds more like user problem and not a product problem

 

[dieselbeef]

roundup is 51% glycophosphate..cuz that stuff didn't touch em