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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Help me kill my crape myrtle please!

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:45:48 AM EDT

I have a crape myrtle busk in the corner by my house next to the driveway. This thing is full of bees and it is impossible to get rid of it. Wife hates it. I had a guy come and grind the stump down 6 inches into the ground. That was last year. This year, its back. It has about 10 little shoots about 1" to 1 1/2" diameter. This thing is over head high and spreads out wide enough to cover the sidewalk between the house and the drive.

Is there anything I can buy without a special permit, that will kill this fucking thing?

Help!

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:46:56 AM EDT

[#1]

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:47:32 AM EDT

[#2]

link

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:48:14 AM EDT

[#3]

How big is the stump? I usually drill holes in the stump, soak it in mineral oil or naptha for a few days, top it off with gasoline and light it on fire.

Posted: 7/25/2013 5:58:20 AM EDT

[#4]

Ground steralizer killed a tree of mine that wanted to come back after it was cut down. Of coures there is a giant bare spot that won't grow grass right now.

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:01:13 AM EDT

[#5]

2-4-d should do it as it is a broad leaf plant.

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:02:50 AM EDT

[#6]

Pour a gallon of chlorine bleach around the stump. It won't survive that.

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:05:34 AM EDT

[#7]

Agent orange would do the trick

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:06:07 AM EDT

[#8]

It's the roots sprouting.

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:06:44 AM EDT

[#9]

Tordon

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:07:13 AM EDT

[#10]

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/13828592651164053993?output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=tordon&oq=tordon&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.49784469,d.aWc,pv.xjs.s.en_US.MpiVkF51mpA.O&biw=1184&bih=561&tch=1&ech=1&psi=-DDxUZGdCaSwyQGAm4GADQ.1374761218174.3&sa=X&ei=_DDxUbDGG4T8yAGj6oHoDQ&ved=0CI8BELok

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:07:32 AM EDT

[#11]

Cut down with chain saw. Drill holes in stump. Pour round up heavy brush and ivy killer concentrate in the holes without diluting. Add more round up in a couple days if it sucks it all down. I did this for three huge ones and did not have a single sprout!

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:07:42 AM EDT

[#12]

Copper nail driven into the stump, but good luck in finding one.

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:11:59 AM EDT

[#13]

plant bamboo and let them bamboo strangle it?

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:15:30 AM EDT

[#14]

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Pour a gallon of chlorine bleach around the stump. It won't survive that.

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Yea. My husband accidentally killed all the bushes around our water system by leaving a (unbeknownst to him) leaky bleach bottle there. There was no coming back from that...

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:16:33 AM EDT

[#15]

Pour a gallon on vinegar on it.

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:21:13 AM EDT

[#16]

Plant 3 bamboo chutes and 4 kudzoo plants on top of stump....wait about 3 months and crape should be dead

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:30:26 AM EDT

[#17]

Diesel

Posted: 7/25/2013 6:33:24 AM EDT

[#18]

OP, are you serious. You can't figure out how to kill a plant?!?!

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