How to kill a eucaliptus stump

[Stevetoad]

Any info would be great as they keep growing back.

[MattyB]

Round Up the suckers over and over.

Drill downward angled holes in stump and fill with vegetation killer.

Pour a lot of ammonium nitrate over it and water it in.

[DoomsDave]

BS Man suggested this, and it worked

Get some urea 50% N and put that around the stump.

When it regrows pull the sprouts and repeat.

If it sprouts like 4 times, give it another shot of urea and keep at it.

I killed the most stubborn, tenacious, pigheaded, oedipal expletive of a stump of doom.

I think Sulfate of Ammonia will also work, and it's a lot easier to get.

[sgvcns]

Cheapest poison is good old diesel.

Drill holes in stump and fill.

Laugh at it.

[Dr. George]

Round up concentrate undiluted - paint it on the fresh cut surface. There are stronger herbicides for tree trunks (e.g. Remedy Ultra), some folks mix round up with diesel, but the roundup alone should work on eucalyptus trunks. - gmp

[Pando]

WD-40

[BS Man about Palms]

I had a Euc with a GIANT stump that would not die... Tried several tree killers, drilled, etc. nothing seemed to did much...

Then a guy basically told me to more or less "fertiliser burn it".. So I got 2 big bags of the high nitrogen and poured it on and soaked it in.

Went green as all hell, , I cut those suckers off after a week or two and with in a month... no more

[Kostas]

Why not just dig to 30-60cm depth right around the trunk,cutting all roots you find and then cut it off at that depth? It shouldnt sprout again then,no tree i removed this way sprouted and you get to plant right where it was as well...Its not too difficult,just dig and saw/chainsaw any thick root you find...

[Kumar]

Outside the city farmers without heavy equipment sometimes drill holes into unwanted trees that resist chopping down and inject kerosene in a low-cost way to kill them. As a bonus it sterilises the insect population in the vicinity also.

Edited June 20, 2014 by Kumar

[mike2748]

Four parts diesel to 1 part Remedy recut to green edges and paint the edges

[amazon exotics]

stump grinder. stumps gone for good, no ground contamination and room for a new plant

[DoomsDave]

I had a Euc with a GIANT stump that would not die... Tried several tree killers, drilled, etc. nothing seemed to did much...

Then a guy basically told me to more or less "fertiliser burn it".. So I got 2 big bags of the high nitrogen and poured it on and soaked it in.

Went green as all hell, , I cut those suckers off after a week or two and with in a month... no more

That method worked for me, too.

Kill kill kill. Make room for the living . . . .

[fastfeat]

Pretty much all good solutions I've seen here. If it's accessible and the space is needed, just get someone to grind it. Be sure to USA the underground utilities first tho.

If the space isn't needed for awhile, cover liberally with Weedblock fabric or shadecloth material and bury under a layer of soil or mulch.

[Stevetoad]

thanks everyone! the tree came down just now. ill give these a try

[DoomsDave]

Be prepared for a battle. A real [expletive].

[MattyB]

I just had a tree cut down today and the tree trimmers said to paint full strength roundup around the cambium layer and that should kill it.

[dalmatiansoap]

WD-40

any details?

[Bennz]

Leave it alive for now, harvest all the coppice for mulch until it stops growing.

[Xerarch]

I just had a tree cut down today and the tree trimmers said to paint full strength roundup around the cambium layer and that should kill it.

This is similar to what has worked for me, just as soon as you cut, while the wood is still moist, get the highest concentration roundup you can find and apply a layer over the whole surface of the newly exposed wood, works well. Not a tree but I used this method to kill desert broom all the time, one of the only methods that worked well.

[Palm crazy]

Heres just one example of using organic stump removal yourself. Epsom salt will get ride of that stump in no time.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/469711436107195277/

[Pando]

WD-40

any details?

Works like Roundup and will linger around longer due to the oily nature of it. That said, Roundup is much better for the environment as it becomes inert when it touches the soil. WD-40 is a petroleum product and as such will contaminate the garden, unless you're dealing with something very hard to kill that you can later dispose of properly.

Edited June 24, 2014 by Pando

[Geoff]

Though I have not tried this myself, I understand that a good 2 foot hole drilled straight down into the stump, and then stuffed with two sticks of dynamite and plugged well and then set off has a fairly devastating effect upon most tree stumps (and sometimes the landscape... and neighbor's landscape, as well). I talked with someone who helped build roads that said that worked well.

[_Keith]

Though I have not tried this myself, I understand that a good 2 foot hole drilled straight down into the stump, and then stuffed with two sticks of dynamite and plugged well and then set off has a fairly devastating effect upon most tree stumps (and sometimes the landscape... and neighbor's landscape, as well). I talked with someone who helped build roads that said that worked well.

Work great, and prepares the hole for the replacement planting at the same time.

[Alicehunter2000]

We paint fresh cut stump with motor oil and sprinkle a good layer of table salt on the oil to kill popcorn trees. Readily available ingredients in most homes.

[Kumar]

so many novel and innovative ideas on this particular question..I wish growing trees/palms successfully could be done in as many ways!

[Ken Cummings]

A: How close are the nieghbors? Then find someone qualified with explosives. No joke, my father has removed stumps with explosives and I am qualified to do so.

B: Use a stump grinding device. Something like a bucket-wheel excavator in operation a service with such a device can reduce the stump to a pile of fine chips to 6" to a foot below the surface. Then fackfill with soil and replant.

[redbeard917]

At least on the tree species I have in my yard (removing black cherry, laurel oak, and persimmon lately), if you get to the sucker sprouts before they harden off, a string trimmer can easily remove them. I just hit them every week or two whenever I'm trimming the grass. Eventually the tree gives up.

[Duppy]

Will a 55 gallon drum fit over he stump? Drill holes in stump, fill with gasoline let soak a few hours, more gas and soak. Place bottomless drum over stump and start a fire in it. Feed the fire and keep it burning close to the stump all day. Good time to stock up on beer for fire tending. Would also recommend a grate of some kind to place over barrel to keep embers from floating away. Good way to dispose of any branches laying around also. That will get the stump down to ground level if not deeper.

This is assuming you can burn where you are.

v/r

Dup

Edited July 13, 2014 by Duppy

[Pando]

^ That. LoL!