Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Apr 03, 2010 5:17 pm Hey Fu and anyone else that might be able to help! I've got a problem in the form of a crazy umbrella-tree type weed. There's a number of them in the neighbouring yard, and they've started sprouting up in my garden beds. Hitting them with a bit of round-up seems to work but then another one shoots up in its place. What's the best method to get rid of the pesky buggers? One of the taller ones in the yard next door: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Another of the bigger ones next door: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Some of the little ones popping up in my garden bed: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ One I pulled out: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ HELP!!! Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 2Apr 03, 2010 6:18 pm Castor oil plant. there was already a thread on this fella but buggered if I can find it. To kill them: 1. Choose a day with no rain forecast for the day or following days. 2. Do the application in the morning so it has the whole day to be absorbed by the tree. 3. Use some blackberry killer and mix some seasol in with it and then a few drops of dishwashing liquid. (that allows the poison to stick onto the leaf surface better) 4. Might be best to paint on in this case and paint under the leaf too if possible. Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 3Apr 03, 2010 6:20 pm It might be a paw paw also? Very similar. Can you get a shot of the leaf better? Also the stem where the leaf joins. Any flowers on the bigger ones? Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 4Apr 03, 2010 6:30 pm Thanks Fu! I'll give that a shot. With the taller ones on the neighbours side, can I just cut them down and paint the stump with the mix... or is it best to paint the leaves with the solution and wait for it to die? Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 5Apr 03, 2010 6:33 pm have a read on some of my posts relating to spraying trees. Painting a stump is a gross waste of your time and money. People who say it works would have found they had the same result by doing nothing. You have literally seconds to paint something on. For a herbicide to be effective it must be applied to a functioning plant. Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 6Apr 03, 2010 6:37 pm Hi II, I posted pics of "our" castor oil plant here just recently: http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=30430&p=433918&hilit=overkill#p433918 I guess we were lucky (so far), as I can't spot this plant anywhere in the neighbourhood, and we managed just to pull them out with roots completely (well, one of them was very big!! so not sure if all of it went out). These guys literally came out of nowhere ... I was telling our neighbour that we have some new species in the yard!!! My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 7Apr 03, 2010 6:40 pm That's the one I was looking for Lex Thank you Ikon, I really think that might be a paw paw tree though. Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 8Apr 03, 2010 6:41 pm Hey Fu, I just took some more pictures. The underside of the leaves is kind of fury? And there is like a central crown which is also fury and that's where the leaves start to grown from. There's no flowers at the moment but it did flower in early summer... a few stems shot out from the centre crown and were longer than the leaf stems. They were a cream colour and very, very fury, with like fury ball shaped ends in clumps (if that makes any sense?!). Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 9Apr 03, 2010 7:15 pm Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 10Apr 03, 2010 7:16 pm Ok you do have a Castor oil plant Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 11Apr 03, 2010 9:14 pm I take it these Castor Oil plants are a bit of a pain in the... We'll I'll have a crack at it tomorrow with what you have suggested and see how we go Fu. Re: Fu, what the hell is this... and how do I kill it? 12Apr 04, 2010 7:55 pm yeah but please attack it in the morning. The photos I posted are of the red paw paw You need boys and girls for them to make baby paw paws Some paw paws are Bisexual I recently went through a similar renovation and move scenario when updating our family home. We also swapped some rooms around and tackled a major… 2 9886 OK it's been a little while! I've been busy getting time where I can to work on this. I started by grading a pad (borrowing a… 26 20278 |