Poisoning

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Interesting!

 

Police hunt tree poisoner who killed off row of century old limes

[scotspine1]

Something very strange about that story.

 

 

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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

New LA black ops to avoid a future STAG scenario??

 

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[scotspine1]

how can they know for sure they've been poisoned? the supposed poisoning was reported in Dec 2016 so the 'arboricultural experts' haven't been able to assess the trees when in leaf yet. Also what does poisoning look like on mature Lime when not in leaf?

 

If it was Glyphosate you'd see the dead grass but you'd need hundreds of gallons to kill mature trees, even then it might not work due to rain flushing it away.

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited February 19, 2017 by scotspine1

[Vespasian]

Sounds to me like someone who lives in those new houses don't like those tree's..

 

Or someone attempted to kill them a couple of years back an its taken this long for the results to show....

[treequip]

how can they know for sure they've been poisoned? the supposed poisoning was reported in Dec 2016 so the 'arboricultural experts' haven't been able to assess the trees when in leaf yet. Also what does poisoning look like on mature Lime when not in leaf?

 

If it was Glyphosate you'd see the dead grass but you'd need hundreds of gallons to kill mature trees, even then it might not work due to rain flushing it away.

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Do not under estimate the power of the Monsanto death juice and don't assume it was a spray application which would indeed leave other greenery affected.

 

Standard procedure for killing a stump is to drill and apply the agent directly. Eco plugs spring to mind but you can get the same effect by old school drilling a hole and pouring the agent in directly.

 

As for quantity, you don't need much more than a few CC's of concentrate and a single application usually does the job, I have poisoned many stumps over the last couple of decades and never had to go back to one yet.

 

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Holes drilled are also a good indicator of something malicious which may be what they are basing it on but lets not forget that this is a news paper report.

Edited February 19, 2017 by treequip

[Stubby]

Were there any drill holes ?

[Haironyourchest]

Bringing the perp to justice will be a long shot, unless they can get a confession. What a scumbag....

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

New LA black ops to avoid a future STAG scenario??

 

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My money's on this theory.

[Yournamehere]

Oliver Rackham wrote of a jack or a spike of some sort that 'they' used to kill off the native broadleaf trees by stabbing and poisoning them before replanting with the conifer plantatons. I've just had a quick look but can't find the relevant section. Might have been a similar operation.