Killing Bamboo with Salt
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how long to kill stump with salt?
Comments (3)The answer to your question is salt won't do what you want it to do. Potassium Nitrate (aka "stump rot" or "stump killer" at Home Depot) will rot the stump, but it could take as much as 6 months or a year. FYI, Potassium Nitrate can be purchased on Ebay much cheaper than at a retail store. It is also called Salt Peter. Technical name is KN03. BETTER SOLUTION: If the stump is dead and dry, I would dig a small hole at the base of the stump...about 6" deep and 4" in diameter. Make sure the stump is exposed on the side of the hole. Throw a few peices of bar-b-que charcoal briquettes into the hole and then hold a small propane torch on the charcoal briquettes until they are red and smoldering (the longer you hold the torch flame on the charcoal the better). Leave the hole open at the top so the coals can get air. The smoldering coals will start the stump smoldering and there will never be a visible flame that could damage your fence. If you leave it alone, the stump will smolder away over about a 5 day period with NO open flames. After about a week, the stump will be gone and you will have a deep hole full of ashes left in it's place. This method will not damage your fence, will NOT violate any fire codes, and will not leave behind any chemical residue or salt that could damage your future plants. Besides, 6 months - 1 year is a long time to wait....See MoreNot exactly a tree question...but how do you kill bamboo?
Comments (4)I would cut it down, and keep mowing the area and replant with desired species. Many times chemicals wont kill the rhizomes, and you just douse your yard in them. 1/5 of an acre is a lot of herbiscide. It is just as effective to remove the shoots you see come up with a mower, which ends up eliminating the startch in the rhizome, therfore killing it. You may think about selling the culms and or making divisions for cash. If its aruea, lots of people love that bamboo! You can crags list " free bambo odiisions, come take your fill" and people may be able to do some of the work!...See MoreAnyone from salt lake with Yellow Groove or Black Bamboo?
Comments (0)Hello all, I am curious about species of bamboo that grow well in Utah, my favorite so far is the black bamboo. I have gone over budget on my gardening projects this year but I completely had my heart set on some bamboo. So here's my pitch: Strong, capable worker willing to help with any rhizome pruning. I am most interested in sizable cuttings of phyllostachys aureosulcata & phyllostachys nigra. If you have either variety and they are invading, I would like to help contain them for you and I'll even haul off the trimmings for free ;) Thanks -Chris...See MoreSuccessful bamboo killing (I think)
Comments (1)Congrats on your murder of Bamboo. However I must add that Triclopyr works solely by inactivating an enzyme essential for photosynthesis. I do not believe it has any activity on other tissues or systems of the plant. The makers like to suggest that it kills the roots. In reality, it simply starves the plant to its death by blocking its photosynthesis. It most certainly is a first class weed killer for Dicots....See Morekudzu9
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