How to kill a tree?
Question:What chemicals can kill a tree?
Answers:
DO NOT USE SALT.
While salt will kill the tree, it will also kill anything else you plant in that area for years to come! Salt is a technique to ensure that the ground remains unplantable for long periods of time.
A copper nail will not kill a tree, unless the nail is as big as the tree.
The fastest way to kill a large tree is to girdle it.
Remove a strip of bark from around the tree that is an inch or two wide, leaving the tree with a bare ring around it. Remove the bark all the way down to the wood.
Trees move water from the roots to the top along the inner bark, so removing the bark kills everything above the ring.
Once that is dead, you can remove it and poison the stump.
If it a smaller tree that you can just cut down now, chop it down and get a stump poison (sold at every garden center including Home Depot and Lowes), drill a hole in the stump and pour the poison in.
How big is the tree? There are companies who will purchase it from you if it isn't dead and resell it so it isn't killed. Which is a terrible waste.
ROCK SALT!!
Put some holes in the ground, around the base of the tree, pour in some rock salt, and put the rock salt around the base of the tree, (about an inch or so for a foot out), then water liberally every day.
A young tree will die with in a day or hours. An older tree should take less than a week.
In about two days or a week, you will have a dead tree! The more water you put on the salt to get into the soil, and the more sun you get, the faster the tree will die.
You can also try these, put a copper nail in the tree, as copper is poisonous to a tree, or wrap a copper wire around the tree and let the tree "grow" around it, and it will kill it, but, that will take more time than you want to put up with. The salt is quicker.
I wish you well...
Jesse
you can "ring" it by cutting the bark all the way around at the trunk.
Do not use rock salt. It will poison your soil but probably won't do anything to the tree.
The best way is to cut it down, as large trees with established root systems can't really be killed with chemicals unless you're going to use a ridiculous amount of them, which is a terrible thing to do to the environment, because it'll sterilize the soil, contaminate groundwater, etc.
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