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re: Help growing Chinese privit.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:05 am to Dallaswho
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:05 am to Dallaswho
my brother
the next time you are in the south LA area I will be happy to show you the damage to the native ecosystem that privet has caused. I promise we are not making this up
When I get home this afternoon I’ll take you some pictures of the rear of my place. It’s awful
the next time you are in the south LA area I will be happy to show you the damage to the native ecosystem that privet has caused. I promise we are not making this up
When I get home this afternoon I’ll take you some pictures of the rear of my place. It’s awful
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Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:11 am to Dallaswho
There was/is a privit border around my Grandma's house in town. My mom called it a poor man's boxwood.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:24 am to cgrand
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When I get home this afternoon I’ll take you some pictures of the rear of my place. It’s awful
One plant in the wild is worse than 100 that are lightly pruned every year to limit flowering.
One bad quality about something doesn’t change the 10 great ones. Acedemics call that the “horn effect.”
Posted on 8/28/25 at 10:29 am to Churchill
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There was/is a privit border around my Grandma's house in town. My mom called it a poor man's boxwood.
Boxwood would take 25+ years to reach where L sinense can reach in four. Money isn’t even an issue because there is no price for standard L. Sinense. It’s been effectively banned while perfectly legal here.
Someone needs to start a privit farm.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 3:05 pm to Dallaswho
The flowers make an excellent jelly. Besides that, burn it with hellfire. Use Chinese Tallow for the firewood.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 7:37 pm to Dallaswho
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Someone needs to start a privit farm.
LOL... no they don't. Chinese privit needs to be eradicated.
You may "lightly prune" yours to keep from flowering... but they will still flower some... and they will fruit. And birds will eat those fruit. And spread this invasive crap even further.
Yet you seem to be deadset on planting it anyways. Best growing tip I can give you is to fertilize it with Triclopyr or at least 40% glyphosate. That will help immensely.
Posted on 8/28/25 at 9:32 pm to Dallaswho
quote:
Help growing Chinese privit.
But why?
Posted on 8/29/25 at 3:09 pm to MemphisGuy
Thanks for the help guys. Guess I’ll figure it out on my own.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 3:42 pm to Dallaswho
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Thanks for the help guys. Guess I’ll figure it out on my own.
My pleasure!
You got a LOT of good advice. And it was pretty much all the same advice. You just didn't like any of it.
Posted on 8/29/25 at 4:42 pm to cgrand
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I hope you live to have to yank these things out of the ground by the root ball in 10 years
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…
this is your friend
Posted on 8/29/25 at 5:02 pm to Dallaswho
im not sure what you have there but thats not privet, at least not the same privet i have
Posted on 8/29/25 at 5:29 pm to cgrand
It’s the same. Donor plant looked a lot like yours when it was younger. Wavy little leaves and everything. New growth being a hairy is a good indicator too. My leaves look a little like ligustrum lucidum but they’re definitely L sinense.
Posted on 8/30/25 at 2:51 pm to Dallaswho
quote:i gathered some privet for you today. and by gathered, i mean i stood in one spot and yanked up by hand as many as i could reach. that is several hundred small plants.
Dallaswho
no big deal right? they came up pretty easy and problem solved?
except i did the same thing in the same spot this time last year. these arent seedlings anymore...they are sprouts from whatever pieces of root were left in the ground the last time i pulled them. need proof?
now you can do what you want, as you said planting this evil shite is not illegal. but understand this...once its rooted its there forever no matter what, and it will spread wherever it wants and there is nothing you can do to stop it unless you repeatedly apply dangerous chemicals to it. not harming anyone else? bullshite
so thats my lecture to you, and before you say you dont want it or need it, you started this thread. you should reconsider now that you now the danger to the ecosystem that this imported invasive plant presents
Posted on 8/30/25 at 9:06 pm to cgrand
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you should reconsider now that you now the danger to the ecosystem that this imported invasive plant presents
It's all good. He's going to lightly prune them. Should be fine, right?
You should prune a privet in the exact same manner that you should prune a Bradford Pear.
Make one pruning cut at a 90 degree angle as close to even with the ground as you can get.
This post was edited on 8/30/25 at 9:09 pm
Posted on 8/31/25 at 12:18 am to MemphisGuy
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You should prune a privet in the exact same manner that you should prune a Bradford Pear.
The faster I get my privet hedge, the faster I can completely kill off my Bradford pears. I have 23 in a row. The pears are trash. They make great cooking wood though. Season grey and rock hard in under a year vs. 3+ for oak.
Maybe I should pull L. Sinese from the root like cgrand. Prob faster than cuttings but I got those cuttings off a wonderful specimen that grew to a dense 9’x9’ monster in just three years. Hard to beat those genetics.
Posted on 8/31/25 at 11:43 am to Dallaswho
you have to be a selfish motherfricker if this is real
The kind of motherfricker that litters when fishing. that low.
The kind of motherfricker that litters when fishing. that low.
Posted on 8/31/25 at 8:16 pm to Dallaswho
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Maybe I should pull L. Sinese from the root like cgrand. Prob faster than cuttings but I got those cuttings off a wonderful specimen that grew to a dense 9’x9’ monster in just three years. Hard to beat those genetics.
You are either at this point trolling or just a selfish a-hole. Those are the only two reasonable choices.
You KNOW it's an invasive weed.... yet you seem, for some reason, hell bent on planting it and not even considering something else. Despite numerous suggestions and warnings. Gotta be just selfish.
Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:23 pm to Dallaswho
You know why it’s called privet? Because it smells like a “privie” (sp?), what the old timers called an out house.
As an amateur botanist the only thing worse you could plant is a tallow tree.
As an amateur botanist the only thing worse you could plant is a tallow tree.
Posted on 8/31/25 at 10:08 pm to jeffsdad
Good one. So for 150 years preceding the 1990s, this plant was pleasantly fragrant, edible, and America’s premier shrub for formal and informal hedges while its name clearly came from the word “private.”
Then, sometime in the 1990s it is found to be invasive and its smell is unpleasant, its growth habits are unfavorable, its appearance is ugly, it might be toxic, and its name comes from a shithouse.
Even the politics board wouldn’t believe this crap.
Then, sometime in the 1990s it is found to be invasive and its smell is unpleasant, its growth habits are unfavorable, its appearance is ugly, it might be toxic, and its name comes from a shithouse.
Even the politics board wouldn’t believe this crap.
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