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| Has anyone had problems with lombardy poplars regrowing from their wood chips after chipping and spreading? This is separate from the inevitable root reprouting. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 1, 13 at 11:07
| there is only so much stored energy in each piece.. i would expect them to peter out before they could get enough root down to sustain themselves ... i had some 6 to 10 inch logs.. that resprouted for a couple years.. the freakin things just didnt get the clue.. lol.. [i mean really.. i cut your head off for God's sake.. just die!] .... i keep spraying down the shoots with round up.. each time i was in the area ... they got the clue .. DEATH TO THE POPLAR!!!! ken ps: you do know the secret applicator.. and how to kill the roots??? .... its not a spray thing ... |
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| In that place with that climate, if you got some chips with big enough branches, it is not out of the realm of possibility that a branch rooted and took off. Pull it (them) out sooner rather than later, and now when the soil is wet you have an excuse to go outside if you get a sunbreak. |
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- Posted by alabamatreehugger 8a/8b south Alabama (My Page) on Fri, Feb 1, 13 at 12:11
| Once I buried some 6" diameter Chinese Tallow logs in a low spot, and about a month later I noticed sprouts coming out of the ground. I was amazed, I never knew a log could take root like that. |
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| Have you ever heard about weeping willow. I just can not see spending 20 or 30 dollars for one when all you have to do is take a small limb push it into the ground and the "next" day you have a nice tree. We had a dragon tree. My wife cut it back and threw the limbs into the woods, several months later my uncle came over say the were rooted and took them home. Some trees are very easy to root. |
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| I get Poplar chips delivered quite frequently. The sprouting is a minor problem. It's not so much the chips that sprout, but the small branches and twigs that are swept up during cleanup. Mike |
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| Ain't nature grand? Our compost and windrows occasionally surprise us too. I had an ancient heirloom red grape my mate and a friend surgicated in my absence. Pruned is too good a word to use for what they did to that old vine. I returned from England to find a dead stub where my jelly grapes once lived and the evidence was a large heap of severed vines in a pile in a mown field. When green sprouts started appearing on one of the 'dead' segments I looked for roots and sure 'nuff. His penance was to build a vine support for it without disturbing it again. It looks pretty weird my red grape vine standing all alone in an abandoned pasture. LOL. It has never produced a grape since, out of spite and revenge I suppose. |
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