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[Content] On Nov 8, 2014, Hutcho from The Channon Australia wrote: It is sub tropical where I live and a lot of native forest. My neighbour had this Ficus growing over an old tree stump in front of her house which became a 2 meter (sorry I'll use feet and inches) 6 foot diameter mass. Someone painted a face on a board and placed it so it looked like a head with a huge afro. This has now been cut down and mostly removed but I see tiny trailers in the grass 6 foot out all around. I think someone must have dumped some clippings from this down by the giant old dead tree quite a number of years ago and it has now climbed 60 feet up and well established. My fear is that soon this rotten old tree will break off and fall down into the forest below. All the fragments of the ficus will get going and a nightmare will occur in the ... read morevery steep terrain. The method I chose to kill this thing was to scrape and paint. At eye level I made about 1 1/2 inch long scrapes and brushed on neat glyphosate on all vertical runners. I repeated the process again lower down. Several days later I saw quite a number of yellow leaves which have now fallen off.Today a week and a half later I administered a second dose by drilling a hole in each of the two biggest parts (3 inches wide). I drilled down at an angle and inserted a section of drinking straw, these I filled up with neat glyphosate. This is good way as it is easy to now fill up the straws again until the bloody bastard thing is totally dead. Some more info is that next to this giant dead tree is a stump that had lots of the juvenile form of the ficus over it. As I had the glyphosate there I brushed neat stuff over the leaves and they are now dead. My thinking is to be wary if just applying poison to leaves as the root system may survive that's why I'm saturating the woody part just above ground level. I'll post again in a month or so. [Rating] 
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