RE: Annoying Maytens question

I did call the gentleman and recommend the Florel as pretty much his only option.  I suggested he hire a tree service to spray it.  As it turns out with these homeowner calls, they don’t want to hear what you tell them, they want you to tell them that what they want is okay.  People are often both cheap and lazy.  He wanted something he could inject!  Himself!  You can imagine how that conversation went!  I really wanted to say, “Just sweep up the darn seeds or hire someone from the Pennysaver to do it!”  I didn’t of course, but strongly cautioned him against injecting his tree.  Oh well, that Maytens is on its own now!

 

Karrie

 

From: medit-plants-request@ucdavis.edu [mailto:medit-plants-request@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Armentrout-Wiswall
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 5:45 PM
To: medit plants forum
Subject: Re: Annoying Maytens question

 

Hi Karrie,

Not sure if it would work in this situation, as I have no experience with Mayten trees, but there is a product called Florel.  

It's a plant auxin that prevents fruiting, and can be applied with a hose-end sprayer on trees which the gardener does not want to bear fruit.

 

Years ago I took care of an estate which had an alee of transplanted Mission Olives lining the front drive.  The olives stained the driveway and generally made a huge mess: spraying the olive trees when they were in bloom with Florel was a quick and easy way to save a lot of labor later in the year.

 

- Ben Armentrout-Wiswall

Simi Valley, CA

PS  I've considered spraying the Vitis 'Roger's Red' in our garden with Florel, but as I've been planting California natives specifically to encourage native fauna, that would defeat the purpose.

 

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Karrie Reid <s*@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

I don’t grow this tree, so I’m not sure about the severity of the issue, but I had a man who was completely undone by the dropping of seeds from his Maytens.  He said they were just thick on walks and in flower beds, and were extremely difficult to extract from his impatiens and other plants he had underplanted.  He wanted a chemical to spray on them to stop them from blooming.  I  didn’t want to recommend anything like that to a homeowner, but I wondered if any of you had experienced similar problems or solutions to this crazy one!

 

Karrie Reid

Environmental Horticulture Advisor

UC Cooperative Extension, San Joaquin County

http://ucanr.org/sites/sjcoeh/

 

2101 Earhart Ave., Ste 200

Stockton, CA 95206

(209) 953-6109

fax: (209) 953-6128

 




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