Just before green up I srayed about an acre of smaller saplings, 6" and down. Now that things have greened up, everything I've sprayed is green. Should I give more time, or another treatment.
Basal bark treatment
- Thread starter Jcalder
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Give it time. It is normal to see them green up after spraying. Just wait till late summer. A year or so and they will be falling to the ground.
Chickenrig
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What chemical did you use ?
Remedy and diesel
The ones I sprayed last year were already green. Within 2 weeks of spraying, it looked like fall and was obvious of the ones I missed. I'll give it time and see what happens. It does seem I've had some green up from last years spray but when spraying these, I seen several that had bark slipping from last years application so I know they're toast.
Boll Weevil
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So long as your ratio of chemical to carrier/penetrant is correct, they're dead.
I was roughly 80/20
Boll Weevil
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80/20 chem to diesel?!? Uhhhh yeah…they're dead. Along with all their ancestors and their ancestors ancestors.
No lol, 4 gallons diesel, 1 gallon chemical
JCDEERMAN
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@Boll Weevil is that about the ratio you'd recommend as well? I've got a bunch to do this summer. I'll be buying a separate sprayer just for this use.
Boll Weevil
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Yes, 20% Garlon 4 is what I mix.
MickThompson
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Sounds right.
Chapman
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Do you think the Garlon 4 works better than Remedy ? I have been using 3 gallons diesel and 1 gallon Remedy.
Boll Weevil
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Active ingredient for both is tryclopyr so I don't know that one is any more/less effective than the other.
Chapman
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Ok, I did not realize they were the same active ingredient.
I think I bought garlon 4 on Amazon.
MickThompson
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Garlon 4=Remedy. The one thing you have to watch for is Garlon 3a. 3a is an amine (water soluble) formulation and 4 is an ester (oil soluble) formulation. 3a is the one you want for hack and squirt. If you try to mix a high concentration of 4 in water, it will make an emulsion that doesn't want to run through a squirt bottle.
3 is also 75% the strength of 4- that number is the pounds of active ingredient per gallon.
That's good info, thank you sir!
