redjackson
8 pointer
What do you all do with princess and tree of heaven trees? Cut down? Hack and squirt? Has anyone heard of a program via forestry department to help kill them?
Invasive trees
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bird whisperer
12 pointer
If large I would hack and squirt. I dont have any princess trees and haven't noticed any tree of heaven. My invasive’s are Japanese honey suckle, autumn or Russian olive, ornamental pear, and hedge apple. Anything out in the open small enough to be run over by the tractor gets mowed. The stuff thats in the woods gets worked on when I have the energy. Sometimes I cut the hedge sometimes I spray and sometimes I gurgle them. I plan to make a hacking hammer this spring and do more hack and squirt.
HuntressOfLight
12 pointer
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forestry.ca.uky.edu
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Knotweed, Princess Tree
win-with-wood.ca.uky.edu › files › Mimosa_Jap Knotweed_Princess Tree_0
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Control - Hand pulling of young seedlings is recommended where feasible. Treat trees by girdling, basal trunk spraying, or cutting to eliminate seed.
Tree-of-Heaven | Forestry and Natural Resources
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Knotweed, Princess Tree
win-with-wood.ca.uky.edu › files › Mimosa_Jap Knotweed_Princess Tree_0
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
Control - Hand pulling of young seedlings is recommended where feasible. Treat trees by girdling, basal trunk spraying, or cutting to eliminate seed.
KY_Fried
12 pointer
Hedge apples are native and not invasive. Just a FYI.
bird whisperer
12 pointer
Hedge is not native to KY it a native to North America but not KY. It was first discovered by modern man during Lewis and Clarks expedition when they entered the Red River basin. Although the largest one currently living is in Harrodsburg it was brought to KY by man. In my book it is an invasive species to KY much like the coyote which has spread east over the last 50+ years.
Stone Branch
10 pointer
Hack and squirt with triclopyr during summer/fall will kill tree of heaven and it's roots.
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Feedman
Cyber-Hunter
I saw a couple of really nice hedge apple trees in Tennessee this morning. Would have made some corner posts.
Stone Branch
10 pointer
Deer will eat every hedge apple that hits the ground if given the opportunity. I passed on this 8pt late season bow in Iowa, he was eating hedge apples.
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NOCAMST
6 pointer
I’ve seen deer walk by hundreds of hedge apples on the ground here in central ky and never seen a deer touch one, strange that In different areas they like them that much.
EdLongshanks
12 pointer
I did not know that.
EdLongshanks
12 pointer
Me too. I’ve never seen them eat one….but I’ve always heard they do.
EdLongshanks
12 pointer
Are they better than black locust?
HuntressOfLight
12 pointer
We had somewhere between three and five on our farm in E TN. They were more like tall bushes and all grew beside one another upon that hill by the creek and vines recently discussed within my thread.
We used them as part of our war games, pelting each other with them. They were our bombs for the creek. Great fun and seemingly lethal weapons (painful at times lol). They did not grow anywhere else upon the farm.
EdLongshanks
12 pointer
I just read that Osage orange make the best fence posts. Good to know. Anyone got a bunch of trees they need to get rid of?
