Stump trouble

KevinS

KevinS

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Usually I get out the stumper and stumps are a non-issue. However I have a couple stump right against my fence in the back of my wife's favourite garden NO ACCESS I removed the trees a few years ago and keep just cutting off sprouts.

So I've heard jokes and salt, etc. But has anyone heard of something along the lines of injectable round up?

Same idea as treazin but to kill it. I figure if the shoots keep pushing time and again there is still cambial activity that could be curved.

Thoughts?
 
I just paint around the outer edge, about 2" in, after cutting the stump off close to the ground. I use a mixture of diesel fuel, Tordon and Roundup. I use those 49-cent brushes you can get at Wally World or Menards, etc. and throw them away afterwards. If it was an especially difficult removal, I pee on the bastard, too... just so it dies with a bad hangover.
 
If you can't get a grinder to it, try to leave a few feet of it above grade. All the natural wood digesters need oxygen, so give them a nice, well-oxygenated area above grade in which to colonize. In a few years, you'll be filling in a hole in the ground.
 
cerviarborist said:
If you can't get a grinder to it, try to leave a few feet of it above grade. All the natural wood digesters need oxygen, so give them a nice, well-oxygenated area above grade in which to colonize. In a few years, you'll be filling in a hole in the ground.
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Too late for that option, but thanks.
 
Diesel works, with high off target toxicity. Might not be as big an issue for a stump or two. It is a bark penetrant that vectors in the herbicide to the cambium layer. There are less toxic penetrants made for killing tree stumps.

Add an appropriate herbicide to it and spray all across the stump to saturation. Glyphosate is probably unnecessary, but fairly harmless since it degrades quickly. Tryclpyr ester (e.g. Element 4) would work on most trees, and is not soil active.

Alternatively to diesel cocktails, cut the sprouts and apply the concentrated triclopyr 3a water soluble amine formulation (e.g. Element 3a or a massive rate of brush be gone) to the cut surfaces. Works for most species, not soil active.

What species do you have?
 
KevinS said:
Usually I get out the stumper and stumps are a non-issue. However I have a couple stump right against my fence in the back of my wife's favourite garden NO ACCESS I removed the trees a few years ago and keep just cutting off sprouts.

So I've heard jokes and salt, etc. But has anyone heard of something along the lines of injectable round up?

Same idea as treazin but to kill it. I figure if the shoots keep pushing time and again there is still cambial activity that could be curved.

Thoughts?
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Garlon would do the trick
 
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