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Help growing Chinese privit.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:18 am
Posted on 8/27/25 at 9:18 am
It’s impossible to buy Ligustrum Sinese anywhere without it being some smaller cultivar that I don’t want.
I have no problem growing these from foraged seeds or propagating from cuttings but they always die year one in the Texas summer. My wax Myrtle’s get baked sometimes too but that’s like 40% not 100%. What’s the trick to getting the privit to take hold in the heat? An extra year in the greenhouse?
I have no problem growing these from foraged seeds or propagating from cuttings but they always die year one in the Texas summer. My wax Myrtle’s get baked sometimes too but that’s like 40% not 100%. What’s the trick to getting the privit to take hold in the heat? An extra year in the greenhouse?
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Posted on 8/27/25 at 10:22 am to Dallaswho
I don't know. That stuff has taken over the woods at my house. I figured that it would grow anywhere.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 12:33 pm to Churchill
Ya edge of Forrest or partial shade seems best but there are plenty of hedge rows of this stuff out there and I doubt they were all planted or transplanted in the shade.
They also get too big to plant close enough to anything that might help shield it from the sun for a couple years or you lose the original shield.
They also get too big to plant close enough to anything that might help shield it from the sun for a couple years or you lose the original shield.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 1:37 pm to Dallaswho
privet will root in an asphalt driveway 
i still cant believe you are planting that shite on purpose
if i could snap my fingers and one thing be gone from my property, forever, it would be all the privet
i still cant believe you are planting that shite on purpose
if i could snap my fingers and one thing be gone from my property, forever, it would be all the privet
Posted on 8/27/25 at 1:37 pm to Dallaswho
Why are you planting that? Its highly invasive.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 1:40 pm to Dallaswho
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they always die year one
Best possible scenario. It completely wrecks riparian ecosystems.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 2:35 pm to Dallaswho
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Help growing Chinese privit.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 4:55 pm to MemphisGuy
For privacy. Obviously.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:01 pm to Dallaswho
If you can’t get privet to grow, God is trying to tell you to stop
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:08 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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If you can’t get privet to grow, God is trying to tell you to stop
They do fine until I stick them out in the Texas sun. Then they turn brown. Maybe I should start a new batch now, and plant September 2027? Should I take them all the way to 10 gallon? Fall planting hasn’t helped me in the past. The first summer is still brutal.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:18 pm to Dallaswho
planting privet should be illegal. At minimum result in a shunning from polite society.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:20 pm to Zappas Stache
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Why are you planting that? Its highly invasive.
This closed-mindedness is why there is no good gardening info out there for these things.
Me enjoying a nice privacy hedge doesn’t make anything worse for anyone else. They won’t even seed if even marginally maintained.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:22 pm to cgrand
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planting privet should be illegal. At minimum result in a shunning from polite society.
Last I checked, it is not illegal in Texas and even posting online saying that it is invasive requires a disclaimer and a link to the Texas noxious plant list.
Specifically:
THIS PLANT LIST IS ONLY A RECOMMENDATION AND HAS NO LEGAL EFFECT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. IT IS LAWFUL TO SELL, DISTRIBUTE, IMPORT, OR POSSESS A PLANT ON THIS LIST UNLESS THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE LABELS THE PLANT AS NOXIOUS OR INVASIVE ON THE DEPARTMENT'S PLANT LIST.” (Texas Agriculture Code - AGRIC § 71.154),
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:23 pm to Dallaswho
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For privacy. Obviously.
There are a lot better shrubs you can plant for a privacy hedge. If you are in Dallas then hollies like Needlepoint, Dwarf Burford (gets to 6-8' tall) and Nellie R. Stevens (15' tall)
Variegated Chinese Privet which is a cream color and not as invasive as regular CP.
Loropetalum which has many varieties many with purple leaves.
Native drought tolerant shrubs Dwarf Wax Myrtle (gets to 8-10' tall), Greencloud sage (8-10' with a purple bloom off & on through spring summer and fall. Does lose some leaves but not all in the winter)
Dwarf Palmetto (5-8' tall)
Cherry Laurel is another good option and it looks kind of like a ligustrum
This post was edited on 8/27/25 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 8/27/25 at 5:42 pm to cgrand
I’ve tried the native alternatives. Yaupon is great until one just gets a little diseased and dies a slow death. I had to chop off half of another because a trunk split right down the middle for no reason. They grow too slowly for the problems they have. Always leaving gaps that take years to repair.
Wax Myrtle grows ok. It is about as fast as privit and has the same Texas sunburn issue the first year but fine afterward. Super easy to propagate. Problem is that I don’t want more than 10-15 on my property because they are very flammable.
Wax Myrtle grows ok. It is about as fast as privit and has the same Texas sunburn issue the first year but fine afterward. Super easy to propagate. Problem is that I don’t want more than 10-15 on my property because they are very flammable.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 7:08 pm to Dallaswho
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This closed-mindedness is why there is no good gardening info out there for these things.
There’s no gardening info on it because it’s a terrible fricking idea to actually encourage it to grow, and it’s so easy to propagate that birds spread it over entire counties in a matter of years. This is America and you can do what you want but I hope you live to have to yank these things out of the ground by the root ball in 10 years once you realize how terrible of a privacy fence it makes.
Posted on 8/27/25 at 7:37 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
quote:that’s how I attempt to control it on my property…with a tow chain hooked to the hitch ball on my truck. That shite is the worst invasive I’ve ever seen…
I hope you live to have to yank these things out of the ground by the root ball in 10 years
OP if your privet won’t grow maybe try Chinese tallow LOL. You can single handedly infest your entire county
Posted on 8/27/25 at 8:26 pm to Dallaswho
this is a better troll thread than my "what to spray caterpillars with they are eating my butterfly plants"
well done
well done
Posted on 8/28/25 at 9:47 am to Turnblad85
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well done
Oh come on. There’s a guy a few threads up asking for zero turn recommendations for 1/2 acre.
Before this plant was labeled as invasive, it served for over 100 years as the premiere shrub for formal hedges, informal privacy screens, topiary, and even bonsai. This is a wonderful plant and while cultivation may have led to the problem, it isn’t the problem now.
A lot of these are going under power lines outside of my fenced area so there are a lot of constraints for what I can use and still get privacy. I’m having better luck with ligustrum quihoui honestly but those are those are more sparsely vegetated and leave gaps. They aren’t beautiful like sinense.
This post was edited on 8/28/25 at 9:58 am
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