Black Hawthorn Tree Sprouts

[Tractor Seabee]

any one out there have a scheme to kill Black Hawthorn tree sprouts. These things sprout up from roots that are 15 years or more since the trees were cut down. The mother trees were 3-4' in diameter. Real pain in the ***. Where we mow they get cut off but if left they will have a 2" trunk and extensive roots in 1 year with no water to them.

Ron

 

[turnkey4099]

any one out there have a scheme to kill Black Hawthorn tree sprouts. These things sprout up from roots that are 15 years or more since the trees were cut down. The mother trees were 3-4' in diameter. Real pain in the ***. Where we mow they get cut off but if left they will have a 2" trunk and extensive roots in 1 year with no water to them.

Ron

Spry with roundup or some other brush killer when they are leafed out. Painting a fresh cut stump with roundup sometimes keeps sprouts from happening.

For trees that are not cut off but send up sprouts around the base, I tried cutting all the shoots off last year and painted the cut stubs with roundup. It seems to have worked, no new sprouts this year and the tree didn't die...yet. I for sure would not try that on a tree I cared about though. The one I did it didn't matter either way, live or die.

Harry K

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Spry with roundup or some other brush killer when they are leafed out. Painting a fresh cut stump with roundup sometimes keeps sprouts from happening.

For trees that are not cut off but send up sprouts around the base, I tried cutting all the shoots off last year and painted the cut stubs with roundup. It seems to have worked, no new sprouts this year and the tree didn't die...yet. I for sure would not try that on a tree I cared about though. The one I did it didn't matter either way, live or die.

Harry K

Harry,

The trees and stumps are long gone. These sprouts are coming up 50 feet away from where the stumps were 20 years ago. I grabbed a 3" root digging a water line and pulled out a 30" long piece of root. They come up where I do not want to spray. RU kills the individual sprouts but there are a hundred more down the line. BTW, Hawthorne is very good firewood if you ignore the smell.

Ron

 

[kidr]

Check out Tordon might work better than roundup.

 

[clemsonfor]

Tordon, garlon are both stronger than glyphosate. Make a fresh cut or hack the stump or roots and put straight undiluted chemical in as many wounds and spray the foliage with the max label rate for your species. You will kill it i promise. Or tank mix in that tordon and some imazapyur.

 

[kidr]

Hey, don't they make canes and walking sticks from Hawthorn? I know they're expensive. You might be sitting on a gold mine.

 

[turnkey4099]

Harry,

The trees and stumps are long gone. These sprouts are coming up 50 feet away from where the stumps were 20 years ago. I grabbed a 3" root digging a water line and pulled out a 30" long piece of root. They come up where I do not want to spray. RU kills the individual sprouts but there are a hundred more down the line. BTW, Hawthorne is very good firewood if you ignore the smell.

Ron

Same with Black Locust. They have a 'copsing' habit with roots sending up shoots. I cut one down in the back yard. Finally killed all the roots but it took regular patrols with a spry bottle of RU giving every shoot a dose. Patroled about every two weeks in the growing season for IIRC for 3 years. Even had one shoot come up througha crack in the concrete inside the 3 season porch and 20 ft away from where the stump had been.

Harry K