What Herbicide?

Pete_5959 · Jan 21, 2017

Trying to clean up a small older Pecan tree orchard. Trees are 50+ years old. Terrible amount of underbrush and ground vines. Anyone have any experience/recommendations on what type of herbicide I can safely use around these old trees once I remove the underbrush? Thanks...

Pete

farmerwithmutt · Jan 21, 2017

Sheep or goats. Seen three goats yesterday happy as can be chewing on a couple Christmas trees and they had grass to eat!

David G · Jan 21, 2017

would agree, goats.

john in la · Jan 21, 2017

You can use glyphosate around established pecan trees as long as the tree bark is not damaged from running a mower around it and direct the spray down to where it does not get on the leaves of the tree.

mtf · Jan 21, 2017

I use both glyphosate and paraquat. I try to use glyphosate the least. I use a shielded spray hood so spray doesn't come in contact with bark. For pre-emergent I use Marengo. This works very good, but is costly.

coshoo · Jan 21, 2017

Goats will probably chew the bark off the pecan trees.

BillinCentralMO · Jan 22, 2017

How many pecan trees do you have ? We have a large number we planted about 10 years ago and one very productive 25 year old tree. We use Princep WD mixed with Round Up. Should be mixing instructions with the Princep. Your timing is good on this. Apply right before green up and prior to the tree growing any leaves for at least 6 feet around the drip line. We use the hand sprayer attached to my boomless sprayer. Don't spray directly on the tree. Use surfectant. Use liquid Sevin to control tent catapillars , Pecan Case Nut borer and other bugs. Are you harvesting the nuts off yours already ? We hope to make this a side business. My Wife bakes a killer Praline from our big Missouri Peans.

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