Stopping/Slowing the Effects of Poison in Trees?

Eric Frei

If the tree was injected, drilled etc and there was no soil contamination would the C+H2O+FulvicAcid still be of use in the context of combating the poison and not as a beneficial soil supplement.

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Eric Frei

On Monday 29 August I started treating the jambos as I didn't want them as far gone as the murraya.



Now back to the murraya.

I reckon we're looking at the bottom of the barrel here, took these pics this morning.

Here's the 3 of them. Clearly the straight water only done the best and the sugar water the worst.



Now there's a little life left on the sugar water one, and as there is a possibility they might sprout/flush up again I'm keeping going with this.

So here's the little life of Percy.



And here's Robert the water only plant.



And here's the Eric plant which gets the compost tea treatment.



So to this point I can say that watching these daily clearly the sugar water one failed the fastest and after some time the water only performed better than the one with compost tea. All seem to have stabilized within the last week and now I'm looking to see if they grow again.

The jambos will give us another shot to compare results.

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Kenny Koala

Is it any wonder people poison trees when you have enviromental Nazis running the councils like in the Redlands

Kenny Koala

On a job on the Gold Coast, i had some one that didn't like one of the hedges i was looking after and gave it what i thought was a dose of Glypho.

As soon as i noticed the yellowing and leaf drop on what was a very healthy hedge i thought something was amiss.

I cranked the automatic irrigation system right up, fertilised with a nice organic mix and it seemed to help.
They lost nearly all the foliage and the new growth came back looking like a lilly pily that was badly infected with Pimple sylid. They stayed like that for awhile and then started to come back normally.

Today is all good and the owner made it known to the neighbours that he'd find and damage the prepetraitor

Bowani Siam

So it is possible that just flushing the poison is most effective, instead of giving the plant sugar and/or nutrients to worry about?

Or perhaps the total leaf drop is beneficial as the plant rids itself of unwanted toxins stored in the leaves?

Or maybe my theories are total rubbish and should be ignored...?

I am interested to see how the plants recover.




Awaiting Jambos.....

Eric Frei

The Jambos so far are going the same way as Murraya.

The water only is the best, the sugar water is the worst.

I'll get pics up this week.

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Eric Frei

I am concluding this experiment today. It has been almost 2 months of daily PITA.

I was treating the "Eric" pots as follows:-

Into a bucket of water I added:-
100ml turf starter
50ml plant care
100ml liquid seaweed
5g thrive
50g root extender

Here are the latest pictures.

Here's what the lot of them look like now.



Here's what the Murraya look like



And here's what the Jambos look like



I conclude that in both tests the plants that received ONLY WATER FAIRED THE BEST and the plants that received SUGAR WATER FAIRED THE WORST.

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Garry Brockley

yes i would concur with that finding, good experiment eric.

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Sunraysia Tree Solutions

I would concur, good work eric !

derwoodii

Agree results good work great effort. I have my plants set to go but need to dig deep 1st to check I have the time persistence and patience's to make it worthy. I suspect you have great respect for those boffin types who toil to reproduce experiments over and over in field of research.

Brent Ferris

Good project Eric. Well reported, answers many questions. Really glad you had the diligence to see it thru. Thanks very much!!!

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Done it

Just a bump, took me a while to find it.

I had to give some advice today and remembered this thread. We've had plenty of water/rain since it was done so I'll wait and see.