Buckthorn - Is it a problem in your area...

timmysaint said:
Hi Fellas,

Just sussing this out, for the US. I'm in Canada- anyway, so a couple years ago I was doing some work and noticed this Buckthorn plant interaction. So, I went and isolated a chemical (plant-based) and then tested it both in the Lab and (finally) in the field, once we stabilized it and were able to get it to work through the sprayer (it was a bit of a pain, until we got the formulation down, because it is low solubility in water.

Right, so, I patented the chemical as a herbicide (with the USPTO and Canada), and my wife and I worked nights at the University (kids in tow, in a friggin' Crop Science lab....) to develop a synthetic method (I was a chemist as an undergrad) and blah, blah, blah which allows us to produce it pretty cheap (about 20.00 per KG AI). We are hoping to have the EPA/PMRA Registration fairly soon (18 months). So, this chemical herbicide is controlling Buckthorn (specifically) with 100% control at about .5% concentration or about a kilo per Hectare. We;ve tested it as Cut-Stump (better than Garlon), as a foliar on <2 year seedlings (100% control) and as a pre-emergent (also, 100% control). It is selective- so it doesn't affect Native Plants.

It's cool stuff. Fully-funded by getting down trees.

So, getting back to my question - do you do much Buckthorn in the states. Is it a big problem - here it is quite an issue (Ontario, Canada). We mostly use brush saws, and then try and hit it every few years, especially in places where chemical control is illegal. What kind of budgets would you have for this stuff (esp. state parks, municipalities)? So, ours is a PDS (Plant Derived Synthetic) and we challenged ourselves to complete the formulation with food-grade (to keep it edible) rather than other, typical, adjuvants (eg. toluene, really?)
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There's a big market in the Chicago area. Lots of potential for a product like yours to change the game and make you some bucks. Remember us small folk when when you're sailing your yacht after your product goes main stream.

Have you tested it on honeysuckle?
 
There are certainly pockets of it in NW Ohio. Some pretty bad spots in NE Ohio.

Honeysuckle is really bad in western - especially SW Ohio. Almost not a woods without it. And I'm not just talking about a few shrubs....Nothing shorter than 12' is honeysuckle wall to wall. I've seen a few buckthorn stands like that, but not as many.

PS: Have you eaten any berries off of European buckthorn? If you don't pay attention to Latin names, give them a try and report back.:sick:
 
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