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Popcorn Trees/Chinese Tallow
Posted on 9/25/26 at 5:20 pm
Posted on 9/25/26 at 5:20 pm
Anyone had good experience getting rid of these? Seems they are spreading on our property like wildfire.
Posted on 9/25/26 at 8:37 pm to Allthatfades
Girdle with a chainsaw and spray triclopyr in the cut if it’s in an area where it’s safe to fall unexpectedly.
Posted on 9/25/26 at 9:28 pm to Allthatfades
For me they’re the easiest tree to terminate that there is. Google the Harper cocktail. 1 hack per 3” of diameter, plus 1. They’ll start showing signs of stress in a week.
If there are seed trees nearby that you can’t treat, though, you’re pissing in the wind.
If there are seed trees nearby that you can’t treat, though, you’re pissing in the wind.
This post was edited on 9/25/26 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 9/25/26 at 9:31 pm to AyyyBaw
what he said
uncut triclopyr. If you slash and spray do it right after the first cold night. Or wait till leaf out in spring.
You can also fell the tree and paint the cut stump. They are surprisingly easy to kill if you go medieval on them
uncut triclopyr. If you slash and spray do it right after the first cold night. Or wait till leaf out in spring.
You can also fell the tree and paint the cut stump. They are surprisingly easy to kill if you go medieval on them
Posted on 9/26/26 at 12:47 am to cgrand
“do it right after the first cold night”
This is the way,wait until it starts being chilly at night.The sap starts going to the roots and will carry the herbicide.
I cut several down with my chainsaw and sprayed Tordon on the stump in the middle of the summer.It killed the stump just fine but about a dozen sprouted back up from each stump.
I really had a bunch to deal with then.
This is the way,wait until it starts being chilly at night.The sap starts going to the roots and will carry the herbicide.
I cut several down with my chainsaw and sprayed Tordon on the stump in the middle of the summer.It killed the stump just fine but about a dozen sprouted back up from each stump.
I really had a bunch to deal with then.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 6:50 pm to LSUA 75
Timing may be important for some folks. I’ve yet to have a single tree survive my hack and squirt medicine and that includes some treatments in spring which is normally ill-advised.
Posted on 9/26/26 at 9:27 pm to Allthatfades
Kill them
They’re not indigenous and very invasive
They’re not indigenous and very invasive
Posted on 9/28/26 at 9:37 am to Allthatfades
I know people hate them, but they make some fine honey
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:01 am to Columbia
there is a very spirited argument ongoing between the forest ecologists and the beekeepers. On the one hand, tallow is infesting native forest and riparian areas so quickly that at this point it would take a massive and expensive effort just to stop it (eliminating it is long past possible). On the other hand it is single-handedly keeping imported honeybee populations from collapse (and we depend on those bees to keep us fed)
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:05 am to Columbia
I have a single mature one that refuse to cut because it's in the perfect spot for afternoon shade on our porch. It fills with bees. This summer, the bees took over one of my wood duck boxes. It's completely filled. Not sure what to do about it. I hope I can find someone to come take them.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:15 am to cgrand
Yeah. I have 50 colonies. I see both sides, but I am against releasing the Chinese moth and flea beetle that they want to release to deal with it. That never turns out well…
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:55 am to Allthatfades
I have had them along my fence line mixed with some mother things and they provide shade, so I’m my case I leave them.
Posted on 9/28/26 at 2:12 pm to cgrand
So we would starve if we could somehow eradicate the tallow trees??
Posted on 9/28/26 at 6:51 pm to turkish
without pollinators yes you would most definitely starve. Tallow is not the only flowering plant enabling pollinators (specifically honeybees) to survive the many diseases and parasites currently causing colony collapse but as it dominates certain areas it becomes more crucial for that
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