OT How to kill a mulberry tree

when I see mulberry trees growing, I wait til they is about 5 inches in diameter, then cut them. it's for the firewood thing. just big nuff, and don't hafta split it! and round firewood burns longer than split firewood!

when you cut one down' grind the stump out' thin your over with it.

the mulberries also have good health benefits to people!

EPALLIS wrote: Mulberry trees are not that evil. Don't kill them all....

That is what I was thinking they make great jelly.   Now that stinking suemack that I got all over the place I need to get some good chemicals to kill that crap.

I use the tree puller Coke's son made for me, but if I can't get back into the tree with my 7010, i'll cut it down with a chain saw and spray tordon over the whole stump. oh...and if you use tordon, throw the little nozzle away they attatch to the bottle, that wastes to much of it. get a hand spray bottle and use that. old windex sprayers works well. I use tordon, because it works on all trees, and because it's readily available here compared to the other chemicals listed that work too! in the spring, if you don't have time to cut a lot before planting, if you walk or drive along the edge of the field and cut off a branch that's sticking out into the field, spray that where you cut it off the main tree, by late summer/fall that tree will be dead. mulberry is great firewood if you heat with wood. and if you do woodworking, mulberry makes really pretty coffee table tops!  

DocUSMC wrote: Of the above chemicals, do any kill the saplings but will not kill grass. I have cut down a large mulberry tree but cant seem to control the saplings. Any help will do. Doc

If you have one call your county forester. I know people will think differently but I have nothing but good luck dealing with ours. They get paid to help you out and do enjoy it. They can give the right advice.

CrestonM wrote: You guys are overthinking this, what with chemicals and all. Just buy yourself a HD-41 dozer, and push 'em all out! Problem solved! Lol

You guys are overthinking this, what with chemicals and all. Just buy yourself a HD-41 dozer, and push 'em all out! Problem solved! Lol 

If someone actually finds a way to kill those things they'll be millionaire, and I'll want to see that solution in the knowledge base!! LOL

I'll cast another vote for Remedy, mixed with diesel.  Must be a Texas thing - I've used it at label strength on mesquites, cat claw,  and salt cedar.  Used it on prickly pear, even though our county agent said it won't work.  Told him not to say that too loud because I didn't want the pear to hear him and come back to life.

Good topic as we can all pick up on some possible solutions with our own growth issues.

I looked up the chemistry for Remedy, Crossbow, and Tordon.

Crossbow is 16.9% triclopyr and 34.4% 2-4D ester.
Remedy is 61.6% triclopyr and some kerosene. MSDS doesn't say how much kerosene.
Tordon is 10.2% picloram and 39.6% 2-4D.

So you can make Crossbow from Remedy and 2-4D.

The Remedy label says for stumps to apply 1 part Remedy to 3 parts oil to the cut stump. Otherwise for brush it suggests a low rate for mulberry, but for late season, like now a higher rate.

My tenant attacked Sumac this year and it came back the first three attacks. He applied a quart of Crossbow one time to a quarter acre where it should have been 4 ounces to the acre. Killed the top, but it sprouted again from the roots. A second pass did the same thing twice. I finally talked him into cutting back to the label strength and now the patch's sprouts are dead. Hitting it with way too much herbicide killed the top before the herbicide could translocate to the roots. Hitting it with the rated rate did get translocated to the roots it now looks like.

Crossbow is about $80 a gallon, Tordon about $32 a quart, and I found something like Remedy for $22 a quart and my tenant has plenty 2-4D to mix with the triclopyr to make a cross bow equivalent.

Mulberry is NOT on the Crossbow or the Tordon label as a controlled species. Its on the Remedy label.

Gerald J.

we have  a right of way cleaning outfit that uses tordon and used oil put it on as soon as you cut the tree

I use 1:1 Roundup on grapevines that I cut in the woods. Seems to work.