How to kill mistletoe?

shite was suffocating a few of my hollies from the inside and I had no idea.

I had to manually get in there (scratched to shite) and pull it all out and constantly do that for months until I got it all.

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now it's gotten to my hackberry

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If you're lucky it will kill it. But the hackberry sprouts will still come up in your yard for a decade or more afterward.

Ran across this from an arborist:

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: I have spent enough time dealing with headaches caused by hackberry trees that I have very little tolerance or personal appreciation for them. In fact, I consider them a real nuisance. Hackberry is a fast-growing (and fast-dying), weak-wooded, moisture-loving species that is prone to heavy infestations of mistletoe and is very poorly behaved in general.

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If you're lucky it will kill it. But the hackberry sprouts will still come up in your yard for a decade or more afterward.

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This is what I came here to post. I'm in the process of cutting out about 25 hackberries from my property. they're all infested with mistletoe. Their limbs grow so retarded. It sucks I have so many of them, but I'm going to plant 10 or 15 pecans in my pasture area and hopefully a few of them survive.