Drone Application for Chinese Tallow Tree Control
Chinese Tallow Tree Control
Chinese tallow (Triadica sebifera) is an aggressive invasive tree spreading across East and Coastal Texas.
How to identify it
Chinese tallow has broad, heart- to diamond-shaped leaves with a slender pointed tip that flutter on long stalks. It is easiest to catch in fall, when whole trees turn brilliant red, orange, and yellow, later dropping clusters of white, popcorn-like seeds.
Generic species-identification photos, shown to help you recognize the target, not images of our own work.
Why it’s a problem
Chinese tallow invades wet bottoms, ditches, and pasture edges, forms dense monocultures that crowd out native plants, re-sprouts hard, and seeds prolifically. Its favorite ground, soggy low bottoms, is the hardest for a rig to work.
When a drone is the right tool (vs. a ground rig)
Saturated bottoms that swallow a rig are workable from the air. Dense stands along ditches and waterways get treated overhead, and a monoculture thicket needs no road cut through it first.
Best time to treat
Foliar treatment is most effective from late spring through early fall while the tree is actively growing and moving resources toward its roots; it is often strongest in late summer to early fall, before the leaves turn. Established stands take more than one season to run down.
Treatment cost
How thick the stand is and how wet the ground under it sits are what move the price. Ask us for a quote on your bottoms and ditch edges.
A note on results: a treatment reduces an infestation, and no application can guarantee a percent kill. We scope every job to the site in front of us and tell you what a pass is likely to do.
Where we work
Based in Bryan, we serve customers across Texas, including Bryan, TX, Houston, TX, Dallas, TX, Marble Falls, TX, Tyler, TX. We also run jobs into Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. See our full service area or ask if we cover your area.