Sweet Gum Saplings

[cj580guitar]

Get your spraying done, with these temperatures, early in the morning. You will get a better kill.

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Canuck where did you get this chart ? Thanks CJ

 

[deers2ward]

This will not harm your pines but will kill everything else. Follow directions. Try not to hit the crown of any pines

https://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/products.php?mi=36561&itemnum=17106

 

[treemanjohn]

If you plan on spraying this many saplings make sure you add a spray indicator or you'll be chasing your tail all day

 

[Canuck5]

Canuck where did you get this chart ? Thanks CJ

Sorry, I wished I could remember. It was something I copied and pasted from somewhere, when doing a little research, back on July 25th, 2014. I've had in in my database for a while.

 

[Long Cut]

Whatever the March fire didn’t kill, the Imazypyr/Gly/24D/Dicamba Spott-spray cocktail did.

 

[Big7]

Burn the 8 acres between now and the winter, while they are still green. Burning gum trees when they are dormant doesn't do much more than just stunt their growth.

Make sure you check the regs.

I called a few weeks ago and was told no burning as of about a week before I needed to burn.

Can't recall the date she told me you could start back burning. If I'm not mistaken, and I might be, it's a total ban in Georgia right now.

And yes. Sweetgum is a pain.
If you plan on cutting all that crap down, use a tracked implement. The stumps will mess up a tractor tire right quick.

Anything big enough to keep makes good firewood.
Some folks won't use it because it pops a little while burning. It doesn't make much ash.
You will need a splitter. Almost impossible to split with a wedge or axe.

 

[Milkman]

Whatever the March fire didn’t kill, the Imazypyr/Gly/24D/Dicamba Spott-spray cocktail did.

That be one expensive cocktail there !!

 

[Long Cut]

That be one expensive cocktail there !!

Not really when 8 gallons (2 tanks) covered around 6-7 acres for me.

 

[furtaker]

I hate sweetgum trees. They would probably sprout and grow on concrete.

 

[Smithvillefeller]

My forester you can kill pines if you burn in this heat. You can burn in the early spring when they bud out and it will kill them.

 

[uturn]

What about gums this big I‘ve got hundreds some absolute giants on my 10 acres…we did a good job when clearing I think but anytime I don’t uproot one they explode!

 

[treemanjohn]

Deer love sweet gum leaves and buds

 

[Gut_Pile]

@uturn you can hack and squirt

 

[boogerred]

Hack and squirt will work. However an easier method that I have found for trees this size is to use a battery powered chain saw. Girdle the tree all the way around at a comfortable height for you about 1/2" cut into the tree and spray with herbicide. I have used straight kilzall in a Dollar Tree spray bottle with good results. Any chain saw will work but what I like about the battery saw is that its light weight and no noise but it will still cut you if you are not careful.

 

[uturn]

Thanks y’all!

I‘m sure it is in an earlier post but whats the herb and time line from hack to I can work with it?

I have a 50 HP Tractor, Rake etc..

Thanks again Fellas

 

[Gut_Pile]

Watched a growing deer tv episode yesterday on hack and squirt. Grant Woods recommends:

50% Garlon 3A
40% Water
10% Arsenal AC

This will kill just about anything.

For timing, now until the leaves start to turn color is the best time

 

[doomtrpr_z71]

Watched a growing deer tv episode yesterday on hack and squirt. Grant Woods recommends:

50% Garlon 3A
40% Water
10% Arsenal AC

This will kill just about anything.

For timing, now until the leaves start to turn color is the best time

Adding the 10% arsenal ac to a 50% solution of triclopyr doesn't get you very much of anything.

 

[cj580guitar]

Watched a growing deer tv episode yesterday on hack and squirt. Grant Woods recommends:

50% Garlon 3A
40% Water
10% Arsenal AC

This will kill just about anything.

For timing, now until the leaves start to turn color is the best time

I have been using this herbicide mixture and it works great !!

 

[Gut_Pile]

Adding the 10% arsenal ac to a 50% solution of triclopyr doesn't get you very much of anything.

good to know

 

[treemanjohn]

Watched a growing deer tv episode yesterday on hack and squirt. Grant Woods recommends:

50% Garlon 3A
40% Water
10% Arsenal AC

This will kill just about anything.

For timing, now until the leaves start to turn color is the best time

Just buy plain old glyphosate and use it straight of RM43.