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| We redid some old landscaping last year and got rid of a flowering Quince, but it keeps reappearing. What is the best way to kill it without killing the roses nearby? |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, Jul 27, 11 at 16:37
| get a bottle like the one at the link fill with 41% roundup ... [which is full strength] snip EVERY SINGLE thing that pops up from the ground.. and put ONE DROP of roundup on the cutting ... sooner or later.. it will die ... since you are not aerosolizing the roundup.. there will be NO EFFECT on anything else in the yard ... this works good on any woody plant ... and is per labeled instructions ... the bottle is the beautiful part of it all though .. lol ... if i say so myself .. ken |
Here is a link that might be useful: link
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| Everything Ken said plus... Try to treat all the suckers at one time. If you do a few now, a few more - weeks later, and the rest sometime after that, the treatment is likely to be less effective. |
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- Posted by lizbeth-gardener 5b (My Page) on Thu, Jul 28, 11 at 20:53
| Thanks guys. That seems simple enough and the "designer" bottle is the best part!! When I read that I was already thinking "what is this going to cost?" Too funny! |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 29, 11 at 12:39
| 41% roundup.. is not the premixed stuff at the bigboxstore ... insure you read the label you obviously will not need 2 gallons of the stuff ... make sure you clean out the bottle.. and take a sharpee to it.. and mark it with XXX and skull and bones.. and NEVER BRING IT IN THE HOUSE .... you will never be able to contemplate how much roundup [actually i use generic at half price] ... that i wasted.. trying to apply one single drop ... lol ken |
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- Posted by lizbeth-gardener 5b (My Page) on Fri, Jul 29, 11 at 12:51
| Thanks Ken! We do have some on hand that is not pre-mixed. Just have to round up a bottle and I'll be ready to go. |
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| Your question takes me back a few years... my old thread on the topic might still be hanging around GW somewhere, who knows. It is a BRUTAL plant to get rid of. I did it entirely mechanically, which is to say I dug a huge hole and got almost all the roots, and actually left the hole open for a year or two, the better to get at new growth at the source. Eventually I closed it in, and planted on top... mostly all is well but the odd sprout still emerges some 4 years later. I'm vigilant, and snap or cut them as soon as I see them, and eventually, I believe the root will starve. Well, you have to believe in something! I bow to Ken's superior knowledge of Roundup but just have to say I would try not to use a food bottle, and if you do, wrap duct tape around it or something so the label does not remotely show - the XXXs aren't enough to overcome the message, as I realize every day when I reach for juice and almost grab my husband's identical except for the XXXs bottle of anti-skunk remedy instead :-) Good luck! KarinL |
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| I took out a large Quince once for a customer. It put up a heck of a fight, but the John Deere 450 won. Quince roots can really be extensive and deep in sandy soil. Mike |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Jul 30, 11 at 14:15
| ya know.. i use it week in and week out .... so i keep it filled ... but being that you never dilute it.. in theory.. you could just put the remains back in the original bottle for storage.. and properly rinse out the mustard jar... in 99.99% of the cases.. why leave it in the food bottle ... eh?? i originally tried a dish soap bottle .. but believe it or not.. unlike the viscous soap ... which drips out.. the hole was too big and the roundup just pored out ... i also use chem proof rubber gloves ... which are also pretty cheap.. also at the bigboxstore or hardware store ... not your common dish gloves.. but right next to them on the shelf.. they are just thicker.. and a better grade plastic.. or vinyl .. or whatever ... just because i use a mustard bottle.. does NOT mean i am carefree with anything .... i actually read all the instructions on the package.. go figure on that .. lol .. and using it 100% is a labeled use for killing stumps and woody vines [as i recall]... go figure squared .... ken |
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