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RailRoadDude
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Re: Poison Ivy/Poison Oak killer.
We live in a very rural and heavily forested area up here in Northwestern California (Redwood Valley in Mendocino County), and Poison Oak is allover the place, we have it growing outside and within our property/yard. I don't know how Poison Ivy is, but Poison Oak sends out huge systems underground, and grows as a vine and a bush, to kill it you have to poison the entire system, which is next to impossible. Posion Oak vines and bushes also have berries on them, the birds and deer eat them here (they love them!) and then spread the seeds in their droppings. The best way I know to control it is to keep it cut down and cut back, NEVER burn it as the fumes are toxic! I am VERY sensitive to Poison Oak, so I have to be very careful when working around it, Poison Ivy is VERY rare here in the west, Poison Oak is plenty though lol One cool thing about it, the leaves turn beautiful colors in the late summer and fall, red, orange, yellow, gold, a rainbow!
Anyway, good luck in your quest!
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CylonRed
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Bloom County | Poison Ivy is the same way.... |
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fcisler
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Riverhead, NY | reply to Camelot One
I can tell you how my family/friends used to get rid of it - hire me!
I'm immune to Poison Ivy/Oak/Sumac/etc, So I would just go in and rip the s*it out!
As far as getting it out any other way - sorry, don't know |
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Camelot One
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| said by fcisler  :I can tell you how my family/friends used to get rid of it - hire me! I'm open to that idea....but I think your commute to Austin would be a bit long 
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rawgerz
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1 edit | 2 acres of poison ivy? My god!
I took care of some growing up a tree with Roundup. It killed everything it touched with the sprayer I had. It doesn't hurt trees as long as you don't spray the leaves.
If I was you I'd get someone with a tractor, rent one, use your own? And tear up the ground with a disk then go get use a rear mounted sprayer attachment with Round up concentrate in it and spray the whole lot. Disk it again, spread grass seed, and it should be fine from there on.
Just don't burn anything 
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dandelion
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I like Ortho, it is not subject to the weather as RU is. |
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kherr
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2 words ........ Agent Orange. |
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RailRoadDude
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| said by kherr :2 words ........ Agent Orange. Yeah, that's good if you want to give your area cancer, of course, at least they won't be itching like crazy while they die  |
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rawgerz
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said by dandelion :I like Ortho, it is not subject to the weather as RU is. 
They're both made by Scotts anyways, I doubt there's any difference between the two.
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David3941
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Kalamazoo, MI | To kill Poison Ivy/Oak you need a woody bush spray. Round up will omly get the leaves and it wil come back next year. A woody bush spray is cheaper then round up. Just go to your local garden center. |
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dgilbert
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| said by David3941 :To kill Poison Ivy/Oak you need a woody bush spray. Round up will omly get the leaves and it wil come back next year. A woody bush spray is cheaper then round up. Just go to your local garden center. as i said earlier, do not buy RU brand, buy generic Glyphosphate from Ebay. it is the EXACT same thing as RU Ultra Concentrate, at way less cost. i just checked and the price has gone up, but 2.5 gallons of Razor Pro is about 97.00, 1 gallon or RU is 115.00 on Ebay. you mix it 3 oz to a gallon and either one will completely eliminate PI/PO.
no matter what is used, hte dead stuff must be removed fromteh area or it does no good. dead PI/PO will still give you a rash just like the live ones will.
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rjackal
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clubs: | huhuhuh.. he said "woody bush"
by the way, it's glyphosate... no 'ph' in the middle. |
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rawgerz
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Grove City, PA | reply to dgilbert
Not exactly the same.
Roundup has some sort of fat in it that prevents it from getting washed off from rain. |
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dgilbert
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said by rjackal :huhuhuh.. he said "woody bush" by the way, it's glyphosate... no 'ph' in the middle. »home.howstuffworks.com/question357.htm the generic DOES have "ph" in the middle. RU uses glyphosate, generics use glyphosphate, both are based onteh same chemical compounds though.
roundup has a surfactant in it to stick. so does razor pro. believe me, i use about 10 gallons of the concentrate per year, enough to make over 1200 gallons of finished product of the same strength as what you buy off the shelf in a store. the generic works just as good and is just as rain fast as the branded version, and way cheaper. it is not a matter of it "sticking" during a rain so much as it is a matter of it soaking in to the plant enough prior to the rain to be effective. the newer off the shelf ready to use stuff actually has a higher percentage of glyphosate than the older stuff, so even a little soaking in a few minutes before a rain will still work, the rest jsut washes off. you could get the same effect by soaking the plant completely with teh old version, and it had a 2 hour wait before a rain.
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rawgerz
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| I've tried a concentrated generic kind. Don't remember the name but a few summers ago it rained nearly 3 days a week and on the day I used it an hour after spraying it on some plants it did. A week later it was obvious it didn't kill anything.
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| We don't have that problem here, it doesn't rain at all (beyond a thunderstorm or two) from around the 1st of June until early October. You can't get rid of it around here anyway, it's literally everywhere, and as long as you're careful it's not a problem, besides, the berries they produce serve as a food source for the deer and birds. |
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I see you are in Texas so you can probably find this product at farm or ranch supply stores. I know Tractor Supply carries it. The product name is Remedy. It is used primarily to kill mesquite trees and brush. It will kill the PO/PI with one application. To kill trees a basal (on the trunk) application/mixture is used. One part Remedy – three parts diesel. Spraying a 12 inch strip around the tree at the base, just to the point of runoff.
It can also be mixed and used as a foliar spray. When a surfacent is called for use liquid soap. Can’t remember the foliar mix ratio but it is much lower than 25%. Do not mow it if you decide to use any type of foliar spray.
Remedy costs about $100 a gallon. It is also available as Remedy RTU(ready to use), the 1part/3part diesel. So you will know what it is when you see it.
I looked it up real quick. The foliar application for PO/PI would be about 2oz remedy/2oz surfacent per gallon of water.
Be careful of spray drift close to trees you wan to keep, lower the spray pressure and keep spray nozzle closer to the ground.
Doing two acres wouldn’t be hard, I’m on my third gallon killing mesquite trees. You do not need a license to purchase. It is safe. It is also aerial sprayed on mesquite. |
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RailRoadDude
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Redwood Valley, CA | It also says to keep it away from bodies of water, or land near bodies of water, it is highly toxic to aquatic wildlife. |
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