Urea and spruce

[Big J]

Chatting to a much more experienced forestry colleague than myself, I was reminded of the treatment of spruce with urea after felling for the reduction of butt rot. 

 

Just wondering if any of you lot had any thoughts on the matter. What is the overall effectiveness of it, do you routinely treat, are there any circumstances in which you wouldn't? 

 

Most of my experience has been in hardwoods, but most of our upcoming work is in softwood and I need to make sure we don't miss anything.

[Elmsdown Forestry]

 

Ive only ever treated pine stumps on fc ground and never been asked to treat spruce on any estates I’ve worked. A lot of people say it’s a waste of time. I hate the stuff and when fc bring it out in 25ltr drums you end up covered in the shite and stink like pig piss for the rest of the day. 

[trigger_andy]

So just take a piss on the stumps? Sounds easy to me?  

[Stubby]

Same as " Add Blue " I think .

[Darrin Turnbull]

If it’s already in the soil what’s the point  in treating stumps.

If I can recall it wasn’t cheap as well.

 

[Darrin Turnbull]

I used a 2 litre  hand sprayer for application