Comments on: I Want A Large Mesquite Tree To Die. Do They Make A Tree Spike Or Something That Would Kill It Off???

By: Tapestry

Tapestry — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:37:26 +0000

If you like mushrooms you can get rope spawn for oyster mushrooms from Fungi Perfecti. You clear some bark at the base of the trunk and put the rope spawn around it tightly and it will grow oyster mushrooms on your tree while taking it out. The mushrooms are delicious and the website is pretty cool.

By: Phone E

Phone E — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:31:19 +0000

Aww why do you have to kill the tree?
Get a tree guy to just come and chop it down it makes great firewood and they will also take out the stump.

By: wilrycar

wilrycar — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:47:04 +0000

If it’s growing under the house, like out the side, but roots underneath, cut it down to the stump. Buy a product to kill the stump. ‘Stump kill’ is supposed to work real well. if you can get at the stump, pull it after it is dead. If you think it will damage the house, just leave it, it’s dead.

By: Squeegee

Squeegee — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:04:35 +0000

best way to kill a tree: remove a strip of bark 4 inches wide all around the tree near the base. by this time next year the tee will be dead.

By: argus

argus — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:56:04 +0000

You can girdle the tree by taking a saw and cutting the bark all the way around the tree.

By: bill g

bill g — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:55:23 +0000

you forgot to tell the reason why you want to kill the tree, if you tell me the reason i my tell you how

By: Jerry J

Jerry J — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:24:03 +0000

drill a number of goodly size holes near the trunk , and pour diesel into the holes —that should do the job .

By: tafttoot

tafttoot — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:14:13 +0000

I guess the stuff they’re saying might work, but I’d just get an arborist to take care of it right away. If you kill it, it might keel over in unpredictable ways. Plus, you’ve got a dead, ugly tree on the lawn for a year.
Anyway, your call…

By: ozlady

ozlady — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:14:57 +0000

Go get someone with a chainsaw….I just cut down 5 last weekend below the surface…..they weren’t real healthy is why i did it ….love trees and would never take one down unless it was causing problems…

By: cr500

cr500 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:47:08 +0000

If you get hold of some large copper nails, about 4 inches longs and drive them into the trunk, or drill some holes into the trunk on a downwood angle and fill the holes with poison.