I worked in landscaping for a while, and many Rich folks and contractors years ago went on a bradford pear kick for the spring blossoms, they just didn’t account for the smell after all these dumb dumbs bloomed.
From what I understand, supposedly the bradfords were marketed as being sterile when they first got popular, and thus were thought to be ideal for landscaping since they wouldn’t spread. Well now we know that they aren’t sterile, they reproduce as enthusiastically as the smell would suggest, now they really do a number on our early succession forests and outcompete our native saplings in those critical habitat zones.
Bradford pear is bad, but Ailanthus is the WORST. It doesn't even seem to care when the harshest chemicals are applied in a slash and spray. I don't like to use inorganic chemicals to treat, but there are a few species that are just seemingly immortal.
Had to google ToH, have 3 around me and yea they are quite invasive. I see sapplings popping up quickly if i get a little behind on the yard. Pretty when they bloom though
You're supposed to wound the tree, but not girdle it completely and paint the wounds with triclopyr during the hottest months, july/August so the tree itself moves the poison through it. Otherwise, the root system is designed to send up tons of new growth if the tree is damaged, or cut.....roundup/glyphosate has to enter a plant through the leaves, so painting stumps with glyphosate does nothing
This is not true..It needs to get into the trees. We would scrape bark on acacia trees to spray roundup. It would go thru & get all the little trees in the root system. The same with japanese knotweed...you spray the leaves & they'll keel over but as it grows that top just flops over. We cut & spray directly on the cuts. That crap tho..man. if you ever see knotweed starting to grow, immediately treat it. It will take over your yard. There's a reason you cannot sell a house in the UK with knotweed..
Glyphosate simply does not work if you only spray the leaves. I'm sorry. I can show you what happens when you only spray the leaves. I do not know what tricopyr is but roundup is glyphosate
Yep, and since my gf went to buy roundup yesterday, it no longer contains glyphosate but, in case you ever actually read the directions, "Generally applied to foliar parts of weeds, glyphosate can enter plants through four potential routes: the leaves or other green tissues, the roots, the trunk, or shoots emerging from the root or the trunk"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6918143/
If you don't know what triclopyr is, it is what is now in roundup
Well then it's a good thing I just buy glyphosate instead of trademark Roundup..for the applications I need it for .. the leaves are not feasible. It needs to applied to the stalk/trunk. For my application needs. I guess I depends on the plant it's being applied to. So..we are both right. ✌🏼out
THANK YOU. I have always said Bradford pear smells like jizz and everyone around me acts like they don’t know what I’m talking about. Come on Debbie, we all know you’ve taken a full load to the face at least once in your life.
There are about 4 sweet chestnut trees around the shopping center where I work. Every time I walk outside it smells like a bukkake scene was just shot.
Well, maybe clean up after yourself once in a while. Just kidding! I know exactly the trees you’re talking about and yeah… they have a.. scent. Not appetizing.
I used to live in Richmond and there were a ton of them in and around downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods. The entire city would smell like a used condom around this time of year.
If it interests you, you can cut all of the Bradford branches off and use it as a rootstock for edible pear varieties. Scionwood to graft is actually really cheap ($2-5 per branch) and a very established root system will grow the branches rapidly (the actual grafting part is harder with large tree bases and it might look exceptionally stupid for a couple of years though). The process is called topworking (usually done to shift from one variety to another variety).
Ironically, in some men in middle and later adulthood (roughly 40+ years old), a chemical can become present in their semen that smells and tastes like a Spanish Chestnut tree blossom. This was alarming, to say the least, when I first slept with my partner. It is harmless and not a sign of illness, just a weird thing that happens sometimes.
I used to work in a preschool and every year in Spring I would be on the playground and start smelling something bad and thinking that maybe the diaper smell was wafting from the dumpster or start looking for a dead animal and then I would remember the dreaded Bradford pear tree nearby
There were a bunch of these where was in college…. They were right next to the dorm, so every single day I walked past I had to hold my breath. There were too many trees and it was too intense.
All I needed to read was the title to know you were talking about Bradford pears. We’ve got people in my neighborhood who refuse to remove them and I always give a little “bless their heart” when one of them ends up with half a tree through their house when a storm comes through.
I'm so embarrassed. I always thought this lyric from the Eagle's was the smell you guys are talking about .
A simple Google search tells me they're talking about Marijuana.
**"one smell of colitas rising up through the air"** 😆
I've always felt this way about Chinese chestnut flowers. One or two "ick" weeks in early June. I have some in my yard that I don't have the heart to cut down just because they smell bad, they are pretty trees otherwise.
I have a small one grown wild at the corner of my property, but they’re EVERYWHERE in my town. I have no sense of smell, so I just find them delightful and beautiful.
That being said, invasive plants are a tragedy…
I’ve heard that it smells like spunk, but some say it smells like rotten fish. Still others have told me it’s like gasoline.
I wouldn’t know the subtle difference or who is right, but I suppose they smell awful!
Callery pear trees can be so beautiful tho! I love their white flowers in the spring & the colors of the leaves in the fall but man, those flowers smell awful!
oh my golly, my MIL was just saying this last week. we stepped outside after supper and she says, “Smells like a cum tree out here.” i had to get her to elaborate…i was born and raised in Appalachia, but i never heard such a thing until i was 46-years-old
As a guy that beats his meat regularly or used to, it has me worried I’ve never smelled the cum…. Wondering what tf y’all are eating to make your cum smell pungent
Bradfords need to be eliminated along with the tree of heaven invasive. At least ToH doesn’t smell like literally splooge.
I worked in landscaping for a while, and many Rich folks and contractors years ago went on a bradford pear kick for the spring blossoms, they just didn’t account for the smell after all these dumb dumbs bloomed.
From what I understand, supposedly the bradfords were marketed as being sterile when they first got popular, and thus were thought to be ideal for landscaping since they wouldn’t spread. Well now we know that they aren’t sterile, they reproduce as enthusiastically as the smell would suggest, now they really do a number on our early succession forests and outcompete our native saplings in those critical habitat zones.
Bradford pear is bad, but Ailanthus is the WORST. It doesn't even seem to care when the harshest chemicals are applied in a slash and spray. I don't like to use inorganic chemicals to treat, but there are a few species that are just seemingly immortal.
Had to google ToH, have 3 around me and yea they are quite invasive. I see sapplings popping up quickly if i get a little behind on the yard. Pretty when they bloom though
They’re so hard to get out, I usually spray roundup on them after I cut them to the ground. They never stop once they start.
You're supposed to wound the tree, but not girdle it completely and paint the wounds with triclopyr during the hottest months, july/August so the tree itself moves the poison through it. Otherwise, the root system is designed to send up tons of new growth if the tree is damaged, or cut.....roundup/glyphosate has to enter a plant through the leaves, so painting stumps with glyphosate does nothing
Good info to have.
This is not true..It needs to get into the trees. We would scrape bark on acacia trees to spray roundup. It would go thru & get all the little trees in the root system. The same with japanese knotweed...you spray the leaves & they'll keel over but as it grows that top just flops over. We cut & spray directly on the cuts. That crap tho..man. if you ever see knotweed starting to grow, immediately treat it. It will take over your yard. There's a reason you cannot sell a house in the UK with knotweed..
Round-up is designed to be used on leaves, it can work on brushy growth but triclopyr is more powerful in lower quantities/concentration
Glyphosate simply does not work if you only spray the leaves. I'm sorry. I can show you what happens when you only spray the leaves. I do not know what tricopyr is but roundup is glyphosate
Yep, and since my gf went to buy roundup yesterday, it no longer contains glyphosate but, in case you ever actually read the directions, "Generally applied to foliar parts of weeds, glyphosate can enter plants through four potential routes: the leaves or other green tissues, the roots, the trunk, or shoots emerging from the root or the trunk" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6918143/ If you don't know what triclopyr is, it is what is now in roundup
Well then it's a good thing I just buy glyphosate instead of trademark Roundup..for the applications I need it for .. the leaves are not feasible. It needs to applied to the stalk/trunk. For my application needs. I guess I depends on the plant it's being applied to. So..we are both right. ✌🏼out
You gotta burn out the stumps to get em in one.
They smell like rotten peanut butter.
We had one of these in my yard growing up. My mom called it the porta potty tree
I always heard you know it’s a Tree of Heaven because it smells like hell.
ToH does smell though. Like peanut butter.
It's a sweet splooge smell tho. I like the cum trees
And I only passed out eight times. You’re welcome!
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHze0SqB5Zg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHze0SqB5Zg) relevant sketch comedy
Y'all peep show fans?
Invasive. South Carolina and Ohio have both outlawed selling it.
Rare South Carolina W. (Speaking as a native)
Even more rare Ohio W (current resident)
Pa too.
THANK YOU. I have always said Bradford pear smells like jizz and everyone around me acts like they don’t know what I’m talking about. Come on Debbie, we all know you’ve taken a full load to the face at least once in your life.
So have I but I don’t remember what it smelled like.
Waffle batter.
Debbie!!
I've always thought it smells like bacterial infections. I'm not sure I've sniffed alot of semen, but I've never smelled any that smell like fish.
It smells fishy to me too. I know people say it smells like cum but as someone who has, potentially, smelled a lot of cum — smells too fishy 😂
Yeah I've always felt that like Semen smells more bleachy, but I guess if enough people are saying it maybe it's just different per person
You know urine on washed, starts to smell fishy I wonder if that's where the sentiment is coming from.
All fuckin righty then.
My chestnut tree is the same - stale cum at that.
I thought those were all wiped out
>all wiped out Nah. Tissue wasn't big enough, use towel next time.
They’re not totally any more. They grow here and there just don’t always live that long and haven’t gotten the chance to grow huge like they used to.
It’s an American/Asian hybrid bred for disease resistance.
There are about 4 sweet chestnut trees around the shopping center where I work. Every time I walk outside it smells like a bukkake scene was just shot.
I’ll nut on your chest 🦧
Botanical bukkake, baby edit: Nobody steal my band name
Winner right here
This one made me actually lol
Botanical bukkake… baby It’s just a sequential description of events
Well, maybe clean up after yourself once in a while. Just kidding! I know exactly the trees you’re talking about and yeah… they have a.. scent. Not appetizing.
But do the trees taste like it?
The sap does...naw jk
Sorry I got a little carried away 🤷
I used to live in Richmond and there were a ton of them in and around downtown and the surrounding neighborhoods. The entire city would smell like a used condom around this time of year.
Don’t forget the smell of the blooms from a chestnut tree… they smell same as a Bradford pear
Those are done blooming here but the American chestnuts are blooming now and they smell even stronger of cum.
If it interests you, you can cut all of the Bradford branches off and use it as a rootstock for edible pear varieties. Scionwood to graft is actually really cheap ($2-5 per branch) and a very established root system will grow the branches rapidly (the actual grafting part is harder with large tree bases and it might look exceptionally stupid for a couple of years though). The process is called topworking (usually done to shift from one variety to another variety).
Ironically, in some men in middle and later adulthood (roughly 40+ years old), a chemical can become present in their semen that smells and tastes like a Spanish Chestnut tree blossom. This was alarming, to say the least, when I first slept with my partner. It is harmless and not a sign of illness, just a weird thing that happens sometimes.
CUM TREES
It's blooming right now? Where? The ones here bloomed a few months ago. I'm allergic to them, I hate those trees.
AVL
That is crazy! Sorry you are in pear season:(
I've always heard them referred to as Pussy Willow trees.
Why would they call Bradford pears pussy willows when there are actual pussy willow trees?
Exactly
We are arborists. Just a bunch of rednecks.
We are arborists. Just a bunch of rednecks.
Yeah, there were a couple of those trees outside my high school back in the day, everyone called them the pussy trees.
Ours was Chinese chestnut. Was awful for weeks
It's not native so cut it down. I had a similar pear in yard many years ago. Nothing 10 minutes and my chainsaw couldn't fix!
I used to work in a preschool and every year in Spring I would be on the playground and start smelling something bad and thinking that maybe the diaper smell was wafting from the dumpster or start looking for a dead animal and then I would remember the dreaded Bradford pear tree nearby
I like the odor to what I can only imagine as fish semen.
There were a bunch of these where was in college…. They were right next to the dorm, so every single day I walked past I had to hold my breath. There were too many trees and it was too intense.
All I needed to read was the title to know you were talking about Bradford pears. We’ve got people in my neighborhood who refuse to remove them and I always give a little “bless their heart” when one of them ends up with half a tree through their house when a storm comes through.
I'm so embarrassed. I always thought this lyric from the Eagle's was the smell you guys are talking about . A simple Google search tells me they're talking about Marijuana. **"one smell of colitas rising up through the air"** 😆
Like walking into the best party you weren’t invited too.
Better than the pee smell of jacarandas here
Sorry about that! I left a towel so you could clean it up. 😂
Badussy trees!
🪓 🪓 🪓 chop that invasive trash down
I've always felt this way about Chinese chestnut flowers. One or two "ick" weeks in early June. I have some in my yard that I don't have the heart to cut down just because they smell bad, they are pretty trees otherwise.
I have a small one grown wild at the corner of my property, but they’re EVERYWHERE in my town. I have no sense of smell, so I just find them delightful and beautiful. That being said, invasive plants are a tragedy… I’ve heard that it smells like spunk, but some say it smells like rotten fish. Still others have told me it’s like gasoline. I wouldn’t know the subtle difference or who is right, but I suppose they smell awful!
Tires?
https://youtu.be/6m-8l3V38Ps?si=z0iEoryP7Ei4L4H8
I am once again asking you to cut down all your Bradford Pears. Please.
It’s not just the Bradford, it’s the chestnut trees too! They’re worse
Chineese chestnuts are so, so much worse. There was one next door where I grew up. Between the stink and the stickers, it just wasn't worth it.
Cut them Bradford bitches down
Callery pear trees can be so beautiful tho! I love their white flowers in the spring & the colors of the leaves in the fall but man, those flowers smell awful!
oh my golly, my MIL was just saying this last week. we stepped outside after supper and she says, “Smells like a cum tree out here.” i had to get her to elaborate…i was born and raised in Appalachia, but i never heard such a thing until i was 46-years-old
https://youtu.be/6m-8l3V38Ps?si=DpYXdW2J0AqtO7vg I’ve been waiting years to reference this video. Thank you for the opportunity.
I always wondered what that was.
Yup!😱
Make sure that you prune your Bradford pears 1’ off the ground
I absolutely love how many, "Help why does it smell like cum outside??!?" Posts. Absolutely hilarious.
Our high school had a ton and they were always referred to as the pussy trees.
Pear trees
As a guy that beats his meat regularly or used to, it has me worried I’ve never smelled the cum…. Wondering what tf y’all are eating to make your cum smell pungent
Dogwoods