Innoculating Poplar stumps!!??

[coleman]

I have an area of woodland where somebody wants me to fell 25 poplars but doesnt want the stumps suckering up and i cant use poison as there are other poplars on the land the client wants to retain. Ive been thinking of innoculating the stumps with Pleurotus mycelium on wooden dowels. What are peoples views on introducing this fungus to a woodland area??? Am i right in thinking that as its a only a facultative parasite the heathy trees that are retained should be fairly resiliant??

Any views would be great. Thanks!!

[coleman]

no takers on this one??

[David Humphries]

I wouldn't think that Pluerotus and its life cycle would stop the stumps from suckering, and may not even take anyway if the stumps keep pumping from the roots to facilitate the potential new adventitious bud growth.

 

 

Not heard or read of this type of inoculation to manage stump regrowth.

 

 

Interested in what drew you toward this idea?

 

 

 

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[samturner6]

Hi I'm just getting started on this forum so bear with me, while I get to grips with things.

 

In terms of your poplars would your client consider eco plugs acceptable?

 

ECOPLUG

 

As I understand it they are not supposed to spread any pesticide except for within the tree. However in terms of personal experience I haven't seen how true this is yet...

 

Hope this helps

 

Sam

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

th OP doesnt want trans-location via root grafts (highly likely)

 

Pluerotus is omni present, so introductions will only be of a foreign strain to the environment no issues there, there are loads of escapees in the wild from farms for domestic markets.

 

they will have the disred result eventualy, but better would be polyporus squamosus and a stump to feed on, say 2ft hi ring barked at ground level (IMO)

[woodyguy]

Interesting idea which I've never thought of.

I inoculate logs with various types of fungi to grow edible mushrooms. Not sure that Oyster is vigorous enough to stop regrowth but I don't really know and it might be fine.

At lowish temps eg outside in UK, I'd prefer shitake which invades far more vigorously and will cost you the same. Just a thought.

[woodyguy]

Sorry, cross posted with Tony who is far more knowledgeable than me on these things. I'd go with his advice!

[coleman]

Hi I'm just getting started on this forum so bear with me, while I get to grips with things.

 

In terms of your poplars would your client consider eco plugs acceptable?

 

ECOPLUG

 

As I understand it they are not supposed to spread any pesticide except for within the tree. However in terms of personal experience I haven't seen how true this is yet...

 

Hope this helps

 

Sam

 

There are trees in close vacinity of the same species that are to be retained so i dont want the poison spreading to them through the root system.

[coleman]

 

 

Interested in what drew you toward this idea?

 

 

 

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Paul Stamets

[coleman]

th OP doesnt want trans-location via root grafts (highly likely)

 

Pluerotus is omni present, so introductions will only be of a foreign strain to the environment no issues there, there are loads of escapees in the wild from farms for domestic markets.

 

they will have the disred result eventualy, but better would be polyporus squamosus and a stump to feed on, say 2ft hi ring barked at ground level (IMO)

 

I will consider the Polyporus, depends if i can get my hands on any. Pleurotus is readily avaliable and it spreads quickly and easily onto new dowels so i can grow more on the cheap:thumbup1: