Cordyline smell?

[RobArb]

Just taken down the rather large dead stem of my dad's cordyline

 

There are some new shoots in the soil surrounding the stem that are now at about 6", but as I was cutting up the stem in chogs it didn't half stink of vinegar.

 

Why?

 

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[roseyweb]

Guess is it's fermenting, don't put that stuff any where near your chipper I blew a bran d new bearing on my tw because of that horrible stuff

[RobArb]

Yup made that mistake before with the leaves, they wrapped round the flywheel and set on fire on the jensen a530:001_rolleyes:

 

This is going straight on the bonny:thumbup:

 

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[Riggerbear]

My brother in law cut down a dead stem at his house in April and it still smells of sick !

[Salix Tree & Countryside]

Ha ha i had a giant one in my front garden, seven stems, up until 2 weeks ago, it had died of from the top, but new growth coming from the base so i decided to give it the chop !!!!

Cant say i could smell sick or vinegar, but that stuff got everywhere !!! wood normally gets in your boxers an stuff, but this got everywhere, an it was sharp an prickly as well.....

 

mark

[Stephen Blair]

yes they smell bad, if you dig them out the smell is worse under the soil.

[John Barleycorn]

Same here, the two in my garden "died" over the hard winter, frothy smelly sap erupted from the stems, but now the stumps have sprouted.