Bonide Sucker Punch, 16 oz Ready-to-Use Spray, Control Unwanted Plant Sprouts, Plant Growth Regulator for Home Garden
$34.40
Price: $34.40
(as of Jun 25, 2025 15:19:48 UTC – Details)
BONIDE Sucker Punch® is the fast and easy way to stop plant suckers (sprouts) that form at the base of trees.
Sucker Punch Ready-to-Use Spray from Bonide controls and prevents sprouts and sucker growth in a variety of plants in your garden
This product is an effective plant growth regulator that inhibits sprouting from roots and pruning cuts; for best results, prune the tree or plant properly before application
Bonide Sucker Punch features a water-based paraffin wax emulsion of ethyl 1-naphthaleneacetate, allowing it to last for up to 6 months after application
Apply to a variety of listed plants including ornamentals and woody trees to promote the growth and development of well spaced branches and modification for aesthetic purposes
This product arrives conveniently ready-to-use in a trigger sprayer bottle; to use simply spray affected plants after pruning the area; for full use instructions please see product label
Customers say
Customers find the weed control product effective, particularly on holly trees and crepe myrtles, with one customer noting it works 90% to prevent resprouting. The product receives mixed feedback about its ease of application, with some finding it very easy to use while others say it’s not easy to apply. The spray quality is problematic, with customers reporting it doesn’t spray properly and comes out as a thick, goopy substance. While some customers report no more growth from shoots, others find it doesn’t prevent sprouting, and many consider it an expensive waste of money.
Katherine Corrigan –
Works great on suckers.
We have several Crabtree’s around the house that constantly get suckers growing out and away from the trunk base. After cutting the suckers back to ground level and spraying on this solution, they don’t come back for the rest of the summer. Have been using this for two years now and the amount of suckers returning keeps decreasing. It does not harm surrounding hostas. Was getting this at a local greenhouse but they stopped carrying it. Found it on Amazon.
Franklyn J. Cook –
It works!
I used to have two mature Callery pear trees (Pyrus calleryana), a deciduous tree native to China and Vietnam. They were planted by the home’s previous owner. While they certainly provided shade for home and lawn, not to mention a beautiful fiery display in the autumn (and a foul dead fish odor in the spring), they had to go. These trees are fragile and break, and destroy native plants nearby. They spread like weeds!One bright, hot day in September 2023, the tree in the backyard dropped three branches on the roof. Thankfully no one was hurt, and the damage was minimal. They had to go! A tree service chopped them down two days later. Fast forward to 2025, I needed something to kill the suckers still sprouting up from leftover roots in the soil. Sucker Punch does what the manufacturer says it does. With a bottle in hand, I continue my endless war with unwanted Callery suckers poking up through the soil. As the Bradford is a cultivar of the Callery, it, too, will whither and die from an application of Sucker Punch. The surrounding grass is fine.
Lezer –
Helpful at stopping suckers
As was previously mentioned in another review, it comes out in a stream, not a spray. I had to use a foam brush to rub the product around, to cover more sucker stubs. I do feel the “stream” wastes product.I used it about a week ago, and it has kept the suckers at bay, so far. 🤞🏻
Geri Marple –
Sucker Punched in a great way!
Have fought suckers growing under my beautiful crape myrtles for several years. Cut back suckers and applied this and HALLELUJAH, no suckers came back!
69AlfaRomeo –
The product works. The spray is terrible.
The contents of the bottle seem to work fine at sealing the wounds on the tree where suckers were cut off. This prevents new suckers from growing in their place. The problem (other than it being stupid expensive) is that the sprayer shoots out a stream of goop. There are two settings on the sprayer, one for a stream, one for a mist. Both settings produce a stream. So, I had to go find an old paint brush to spread the goop around once I sprayed it. It seems pointless to even offer it in a spray bottle if you have to spread it with a brush. Just offer it in a can (for less money) with instructions to spread it with a paint brush. They do offer it that way, but in a much larger quantity for an even stupider amount of money.Will probably try a different product next time.
alan a dupey –
Worked for my friend
I ‘ve seen it work before
PollyGirl –
Not a good product.
A very disappointing product. It doesn’t stop the sucker growth suckers from coming up from the ground on my crape Myrtle trees. I feel it’s a waste of money. I prefer the Monterey Brand by far.
Carol Bailey –
Great buy
Great buy and service! Thx.