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.

 

[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