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Tree stumps and buttermilk

CGhelofxr

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I was told this weekend that you could use buttermilk to rot out a tree stump.

Anyone done or ever hear of this?
If you have done this how long did it take to rot the stump?
 
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Never heard of that one, I cut a tree down in the back yard and drilled a bunch of holes in the stump and poured sulfuric acid in the holes, about a year later I kicked the stump and saw dust went flying.:)
 
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boatme99 said:
And people drink that stuff? :eek:

Buttermilk, not the sulfuric acid.
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Sure we do, but it makes wonderful cornbread, biscuits and pancakes.

As for the tree stumps, if it's a mimosa it will take twenty-two years, and then it'll still come back up.

Around here people use some kind of enzyme product to eat the stump. Seems to work pretty well. A nurseryman or arborist could advise you.
 
I coppice(coppicing) every stump so the roots will grow a new tree. Being a logger in the past I been sent back in some areas decades later to find out it really works.
 
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It works quickly if you dip the stump in butter milk as you eat it. My old time uncles dipped cornbread in it. I've tried it, cornbread that is.
 
Works better if you use the bathroom on the stump every day after drinking the buttermilk first. You will begin to see results in a few months. Drink plenty of buttermilk.
 
don't know about buttermilk but have heard of using powdered milk to rot out a stump. Apparently, the powder creates bacteria that eats the wood but it takes a long time for the stump to go away completely.
 
Thank goodness so many people don't like buttermilk. Just leaves that much more in the stores for me. While y'all are at it, just leave all the corn mean too. That way I'll have plenty so I can have big tall glasses of cornbread crumbled up in buttermilk.

As for rotting a stump, just get the stuff from Home Depot designed for that.

CW
 
Either end of the pH scale will work to destroy a stump. Acid is easiest to acquire and as described above, will disintegrate the stump in no time. Liquid caustic soda will do the same.
 
I had a tree cut down last summer and had poison poured down the stump to kill the tree. Now I have numerous places near that tree where it's sprouting and trying to grow. More of a nuisance now than it was when it was just one tree. Maybe I should have used the buttermilk!
 
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