The little techniques!

Getting prepared to go out and fight the good fight. Going on my second year in one of the parks I maintain. Can't wait to see results from last year.

GOOD ONE! LOVE IT!

I've watched a dozen other videos on invasives, and yours is by far the best! Beginning to watch the whole series next. You've answered so many of my questions... ratios, applicators, timing, etc.. We've got 120acres that have gone back to nature, which is what we wanted, but the bush honeysuckle and Autum Olive are crazy thick in spots. I've resorted to using a 5 ton mini excavator to get the biggest Autum Olives out of the way, but the honeysuckle is a bit more manageable. Thanks for the great info.

Where did you get the trees for 2 dollars ? Thank you got some tree coming and was thinking of putting them in sleeves too .

What is the safest way to remove bittersweet in wetlands?

Why is the bark winged ?

Great teacher, I got 100% on the quiz!! Thank you!

A fun morning activity in eastern Long Island is cutting down ornamental bittersweet along the the roadside near my house.

Hi - just a note to say thank you for these excellent videos. We are on 11 acres here in the seacoast region of NH, and look after another 38. We're predominantly hayfields which we let grow into sanctuary until mid july. All the border aprons are growing with invasives. We have counted 28 species of natives trees. I have about 1,000 ft of field encroachment to clear...the usual suspects, and so much buckthorn...this year I will be using your spot-herbicide method. Up to now I've been going back over cut areas twice in the spring/summer/fall with an articulating hedge trimmer to get new growth. But thanks so much for your good videos, I greatly appreciate your work - I'm in the fight! The burn piles are high, and there is no snow, time to establish a new brush-dump.

Good lord, talk about over thinking something! Every herbicide product has the manufacturer recommended application rates for any treatment that the product is approved for right in the label! Follow the manufacturer recommendations. Enough said.

After "ringbarking/girdling" (if that's a fair way to describe it) the TOH parent tree, what happens to it? Does it die in place? Is it likely to topple? This is potentially a problem for urban areas. For instance, here in inner Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) where TOHs are suckering along steep, highly degraded, structurally unsound riparian areas right beside shared pathways with high pedestrian & cyclist traffic flow. Any comments and advice would be greatly appreciated. Your explanation about why and how they sucker is valuable. In the above example, annoyed locals have snapped off suckering TOHs along the pathway. This has obviously triggered more suckering in a vicious cycle, in a wider context of poor public understanding of how these things work and should be addressed.

Thanks for the great review. It gives me ideas for integrating our woods restoration with our family activities. Hello from Cincinnati 😊

Great video. Communication between trees? A good book on this subject is the recently published, NY Times bestseller, "The Light Eaters", by Zoe Schlanger. I highly recommend it.

Great video! Some sumac looks like tree of heaven. I count on the smell to ID TOH.

I would use blue locktight so it would be easier to remove

Genius! Thank you for sharing!!

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I am slowly clearing honeysuckle In Jefferson County New York. As I remove the honeysuckle the Black cap rasberry plants are exploding. Very rewarding.

ToH (after poisoned & downed) could be used to make cabinets & furniture. Edit: *Not* via large corporations. They would just take advantage of the root recovery growths to create forests of it for $$$. No. More like, grassroots organizations & non-profits which use the sales to further their ToH eradication efforts only.

These were growing on the property we bought in northern NSW. East coast of Australia. Once id identified them I got to work painting the suckers and we had the 2 main trees cut down. Im sorry i cant remember the chemical i used. Not glyposate. I eventually won after 2 or 3 years. They were coming up in the sheds, chook pens, everywhere! It was like a horror movie.😂

So many excellent tips on identifying other vines and managing your tools to control the bittersweet. I would never touch either poison ivy or Virginia creeper, but now I may actually be able to tell the difference. And putting a sponge on the sprayer end, genius! Thank you.

That was great video and very useful, thanks a loooot🎉❤

The honey suckle has anti bacterial qualities, so learn before you burn.

Very helpful, thank you. For cut stump application, would it work to add to this wand the DIY pipe-clamped nylon fabric dauber you described in the video listed below? Any suggested adjustments to apply that method to this sprayer? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYWckqWMos6sZqcsi=2ne_4L57FVaC0YL5

Great video. Particularly enjoyed the quiz at the end.

So many creative and fun ideas! I loved this tour and enjoyed your input. Thank you very much!

Terrific how to on honeysuckle. Thanks. New subscriber 8n Michigan.

I had about 5 acres out of 30 covered with stiltgrass and I followed your Acclaim protocol and the natives are now thriving. I'll probably always deal with small patches of stiltgrass but now I have gorgeous native ferns and wildflowers taking its place. Was so much easier than dealing with the hundreds of Ailanthus trees I killed, cut down and burned (the largest one about 45" DBH and 100' tall). The tragically neglected forest I purchased 4 years ago is undergoing a stunning ecological restoration. Your advice and insights are appreciated!

It looks beautiful though

What type of honey suckle is that? Would this method work on Chinese privet?

Great video, you took the time and explained, very good. Live my 40v dewalt chainsaw

Hello from the future. Here in the south we had a major mast year last year when you posted this video. It was like a global pandemic of acorns and hickory nuts.

Can I pull it instead of using herbicide?

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Thank you, this tree is growing in my backyard I didn't know what to do with it. It is very small growing inside a japonica tree.

When is the best time of year in northeast Ohio to treat it with 4% glyphosate?

Thank you for this great video. For safety, shouldn’t people spraying glysophate be wearing protection for eyes, skin and inhalation? And even though you are spraying directly on the cut stalk, there should be little to no wind so the herbicide doesn’t drift. I use it and take precautions not to accidentally be exposed.

Hey, first off, excellent info. Second, I was wondering if the trees become more brittle when killed with roundup and what, if anything, you do to removed the trees after they die?

Just yesterday, I was trying to identify native vs invasive Bittersweet but was having a hard time since the leaves & berries are drying as it heads into dormancy. Luckily, a USDA ID document states that native Bittersweet fruit have one or no seeds. Whereas the invasive Bittersweet fruit has five or more seeds. I took a berry, that was in good condition, inside & cut it in half with a sharp knife. Mine had six seeds, so invasive, of course. I also learned it would've been easier to just smoosh the berry outside in the field, lol.

I just found some of this while walking on a friend's property. I'm going to ask permission to take some for propagation. It's a well-behaved vine as far as its relationship to the trees it climbs on. It doesn't twine tightly, it keeps a loose vining habit so it doesn't girdle like some other vines do. The fruit clusters are beautiful.

Oriental Bittersweet is growing here in a wetland that is a water source for a town well. We can’t use chemicals to get rid of it. During the winter, even salt is not allowed to be put on the road going through the wetland. So, we’re stuck with this invasive. We do what we can with the volunteers we have.

I was planning on replacing mine which died last year. I'm just north of Toronto.

Here in Illinois people don't realize what it is & let it grow very tall:(

Your video was a godsend. Having put a lot of hours on my saw, which I love, I was having many of the same issues as you. Last Friday we we hit hard by Hurricane Helene here near Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Thank God I had ordered me needed parts several weeks ago, and used your video to overhaul my saw today. Now it’s almost as good as new and made shirt work of the first of many newly felled tree on our place. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Does it also choke the tree it's on?

I know it's been 2 years since you uploaded this amazing video, but I have a question. We have SO much buckthorn on our property and you mentioned cutting the and killing the autumn olive; why not pull it out the ground? Does it hurt or disrupt the soil to pull them out if we can?

@5:00 THANK you for the amazing explanation and examples around the complexities and issues with nitrogen! That was solid!

I've got about 5.5 acres of land and because of the ash tree die off, there is honeysuckle all over. I've been wondering if it's worth it. Ive cleared some areas and it's much better, but the size seems overwhelming.

Thank you for sharing this. My understanding is that the 2 species readily hybridize. That's why it's important to remove the non-native (C. orbiculatus) because it's changing the gene pool. For the same reason, it's important to remove the non-native white mulberries because it hybridizes with our native red mulberry (Morus rubra).