I am desperate. I know everyone in this community loves trees, bushes, and plants. I know most of the community hates when people want to kill a tree/bush/plant, but I can’t get this thing to stop growing.
I plant fruit trees and do everything I can to keep them alive, but somehow they die (usually deer kill them). I do everything I can to kill this nasty evil weed but it continues to thrive. Obviously I am doing something wrong. I cut it back every year. I pour unbelievable amounts of poison on it. It simply doesn’t matter. It just keeps growing. I’m about to go buy 5 tons of salt and destroy everything on this side of the house I am so frustrated. Reaching out to you all first to see if I can destroy without destroying the land so I can replace it with something nice, like flowers or a raised garden.
by WastingTime1111
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Looks like trumpet vine, yep, insanely difficult to control. Chopping to the ground and painting herbicide on the open wound is probably your best bet. You’ll likely need multiple rounds of this.
Trumpet vine. Nice vine with pretty flowers. But yeah, it is an aggressive grower.
You are going to have to rip out the roots… any root that is left will regrow. If you get the biggest roots out, you can then spray as the smaller parts try to regrow.
I don’t have an answer but that’s definitely not kudzu. Sorry though. I’m currently battling invasive morning glory. My plan is to solarize and try to replace with very hardy natives
Trumpet vine is basically impossible to remove unless you get an excavator and remove depth of 20ft of soil and replace it with non trumpet vine soil. I’ve tried everything with the poisons but it always comes back. I even went nuclear and used Rm45 which contains glyphosate and imazapyr which really should be illegal it’s so strong. It came back a year later. At this point I’ve given up and just pull it every time I’m outside and I’m coming to terms that it’s just something I’ll have to do forever.
This campsis/trumpet vine is a hardy native I think
Trumpet vine. I’ve been fighting this for eight years now, and finally think I’ve got it under control. Google “hack and squirt” as a method of killing woody invasives and follow the instructions this fall with a triclopyr-based herbicide. (Pro tip: use it undiluted and add food coloring so you can be sure you treated all the cuts.)
If I had a time-machine, I’d go back and thrash the previous home-owner who planted these damn things.
Do not use salt. There’s a reason salting the ground has been considered a war-crime for several centuries……
You need to go out every single week and cut it back. Eventually, it will use up all its energy trying to grow and it will give up. You need to be consistent. You can do this!
Have one that I’m constantly battling right next to one of my boxwoods. I just pull as much as I can from the ground. Still comes back though
Trumpet vine the most beautiful flowers.this will take over and eat your house.it will come up a mile a way from where u plant it.i have 2 but they are in pots because I love the beauty but would never plant them in the ground..good luck this thing has 9 lives and can grow up to 10 ft a year.
Trumpet Vine, time to move or prepare for a years long battle. Took my mom 10+ yrs to kill the one the prev owner planted at her house. I’m on year 2 of trying to kill the one the previous owner planted at my house.
Cut it to the ground and IMMEADIATELY paint the wound with non-diluted herbicide(make sure to get all of the cambium layer). If you see a shoot pop up tear it up right away. Eventually the roots will die.
You can skip the herbicide, all you really need to do is kill the roots.
You know what kills all roots for all plants no matter what?
Boiling water.
Buy yourself a giant tamale pot, something that’s like five five or 7 gallons, put it on top of a camping stove outside. Get the water in a rolling boil and then pour it straight onto the roots. If you can dig out some of the root ball so that it’s exposed and also leave a pit around it, this will be ideal as it will keep the hot water localized to that area so it can seep down. Do this three or four times and you’ll get very deep penetration with the hot water, best part is no chemicals, won’t harm pets or other plants, and boiling water also helps break down solidified salts in the soil making the soil healthier
Does anyone make a microwave oven that can cook plants in the ground? I realize I should probably check for gas lines before i turn it on.
JUST a heads up, some folks like myself are highly allergic to trumpet vine. should you find yourself in this group, when exposed and the rash starts- head immediately to your doctor for assistance, as over the counter remedies will be in effective.
Goats will gobble it up.
Kill with EXTREME measures. I’m in year three of my fight with this evil plant. Fairly certain I won’t ever win as I’ve spotted other people in the neighborhood growing it intentionally and it can spread very far from the original source. Welcome to the Trumpet Vine war.
Trumpet vine.
I formed mine into a tree. And I mow the 5 or so feet around it constantly to send its little shoots reeling back.
>I pour unbelievable amounts of poison on it
What herbicide are you using? For most woody plants you want to use undiluted Triclopyr and most effective when applied on the inner cambium layer in the fall before it goes dormant
>I’m about to go buy 5 tons of salt
Do not use salt!!! You’ll ruin your soil and still not kill it
Will destroy a building.
One way to terminate this , only way, treat upper 1/2 of plant with round up !!! It will take a while , be patient . Give it time to get absorbed into plant then it needs time to travel to the very bottom of root . It will fie from the root up . Problem solved !!
I spy poison Ivy!
My biggest gardening regret was planting trumpet vine
It’s herpes of the garden, gone and come back
Flame throwers won’t work either. Tried it on Smilax and trumpet vine
From my experience, neither fire, nor glyphosphate will touch it.
Salt, or nuke it from orbit.
It’s a trumpet vine. It’s invasive as shit and will send sucker roots out 10′ away underground.
For the large sections, trim a chunk of it back but leave some green attached. Spray the remaining green with a good bush killer (use full strength). Let it wilt properly for a solid week or so and then you can cut the vine off at ground level. This will give the chance for the herbicide to get to the root.
Plan on doing this a couple times, probably, because a few small sections will be hell bent to take back over. If you keep at it and don’t let it get too overgrown before hitting it again, you can get it semi-under control.
These are awful – I so sympathize. Someone planted one in the back corner of the house and deck, and it had spread under the deck (and thru the decking) and onward out the front of the deck (to under the quince shrub, another not so fav of mine). Another one planted on the old brick garage grew thru the soffit and up along the inside of the roof, along with coming up on the other side of the building.
I cut it down and removed the stump but it resprouted along the roots. Regular Roundup didn’t work. Finally tried the Roundup Poison Ivy Plus Tough Brush Killer. Took about 6 years of constant battling. For each new plant that came up, I’d do a fresh cut as it started to regrow, paint on the heavy duty stuff (some were growing in the middle of roses, spring bulbs and weigelas), then covered with a solid black pot over it with a rock to hold it down, periodically cutting/re-treating.
Best of luck to you.
Dump a box of ice cream salt on it! I killed many a privet hedge with ice cream salt