we have three huge gumball trees or i have heard them referred to as sweet gumball anyway is there anyway to make these darn thing stop producing the dreaded spikey guballs that drop from them?
2007-03-12 12:22:13 · 5 answers · asked by deano823 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
No, they're the seed pods. The tree is just doing what it's meant to do, which is to spread it's DNA around the planet.
You might be able to suspend a net underneath the big branches, to catch the gumballs, so that you don't step on them.
2007-03-12 12:31:23 · answer #1 · answered by abfabmom1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had the same problems with my sweetgum trees, 14 of them, the balls and leaves were so bad and tall i had to hire a tree cutter to remove them. The dry leaves were a fire hazzard. Good luck
2007-03-12 13:00:39 · answer #2 · answered by redbass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short of cutting them down, I have no idea how to stop them....
2007-03-12 12:28:39 · answer #3 · answered by 6kidsANDalwaysFIXINGsomething 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, if you can't live with them, you'll have to cut them down.
2007-03-12 12:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by jimdc49 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you want them fruitless, spray them each year, ask your nursery
2007-03-12 12:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by ticketoride04 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋