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  • From: "Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Killing (reducing) brush organicly
  • Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:07:23 -0700

Can this method work for black walnut 2-3 year old trees?

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 7:43 AM
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Killing (reducing) brush organicly


> I'm supposed to know all the botany/physiology terms to explain it, but I
> don't exercise the phrases enough to keep them. Basicly, when you cut off
> the tops, the roots don't hear about it right away. They continue
> functioning as if tops are still there. Auxins or hormones are sent up,
and
> if the tops were still there, eventually the leaves' compounds would be
sent
> back to roots in turn. So, root products go up, and collect near the cut
> area. You cut those off (at about 24 hours), and this removes the info
> source which would have told the roots what to do next.
>
> Many herbicides work by disrupting the normal exchange of auxins/
hormones/
> info/ carbs in plants. This double-cut method is an organic way of
> accomplishing this.
>
> (Listers, please post a better explanation, if mine needs help)
>
> tc, sWI, where we already had frost-damaged apple flowers before last
> night's freeze.
>
>
>
> Tanis, I have lots of clonal poplar to clear around my orchards, I have
> never heard of
> this idea, can you explain more? I don't see the logic behind the 24 hour
> period.
> Curious, Del
>
> > tanis cuff wrote:
> > Another method, supposed to be especially effective on clonal patches
> > (example: poplar, black locust)-- cut at waist to shoulder height one
> day,
> > next day (as close to 24 hours as practical) cut at ground level. I
> think
> > this is for the growing season, not for dormant. I haven't tried this,
> but
> > neighbors have, and said they liked the results.
>
>
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