Treating ivy stumps with Glyphos close to host tree?

[hesslemount]

Has anyone known or heard of any potential negative effects through treating ivy stumps with Glyphos that are located at the base of the host tree? Are the root systems with ivy and host tree connected in any way or interlinked through ecto-mychorizae? If not is it safe to treat ivy stumps by painting Glyphos on the cuts whilst in such close proximity to its host tree?

Edited June 26, 2014 by hesslemount

[arbwork]

if you are referring to glyphosate it is not safe to use in your situation have experience of this in the past http://www.monsanto.com/products/documents/glyphosate-background-materials/rrplus%20ii%20-%20the%20fate%20of%20glyphosate%20-%20translocation%20and%20exudation%20in%20the%20soil%20-%20final%2010-4-11.pdf

Edited June 26, 2014 by arbwork

[easy-lift guy]

I would also recommend against this attempt. Chances are you will have colaterial damage.

easy-lift guy

[hesslemount]

Nice work guys. I've also had my suspicions about exudation of glyphosate through roots when painted neat onto stumps. I wonder if there are any ecological papers out there in respectable journals showing some symbiosis or parasitism in ivy / host tree root interactions via ecto mychorizae? This would have some implications on ivy treatment growing on trees.

 

 

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