Can Vinegar Kill A Tree?

How To Kill A Tree - Can Vinegar Kill A Tree?
Topical application of white vinegar to the leaves alone is not enough to completely kill a tree, but killing the leaves prevents the tree from photosynthesizing and transferring carbohydrates to the roots, which can slowly kill it. ... Drill holes in the trunk or top of the stump and fill them with vinegar.
Household vinegar burns plant leaves and can also burn the living tissue inside a tree. White vinegar contains 5 percent acetic acid compared to 20 percent acetic acid from horticultural vinegar. Topical application of white vinegar to the leaves alone is not enough to completely kill a tree, but killing the leaves prevents the tree from photosynthesizing and transferring carbohydrates to the roots, which can slowly kill it. To speed up the process, you need a way to get the vinegar to the roots without drastically increasing the acidity in the soil for future plants. Drill holes in the trunk or top of the stump and fill them with vinegar. Check back frequently to add more as the tree drinks the vinegar. Large trees die within a month but will die even faster when you use vinegar along with the salt treatment.

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  • @ministryofpeacekmk
    @ministryofpeacekmk10 ай бұрын

    Elm trees are the most invasive, and hard to kill? Mulberry tree: Hold my beer.

  • @AngiesDoingIt
    @AngiesDoingIt3 жыл бұрын

    I use vinegar and table salt. Table salt can kill you, so I know it works. I drilled holes in a stump poured in the salt and then the vinegar. The stump turned into dust in less than a month. On my way out to do another now, someone offered to do it for $230. No way.

  • @jampalamuralikrishna3024

    @jampalamuralikrishna3024

    Жыл бұрын

    Telugu is the

  • @lauriee5200

    @lauriee5200

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow!! Thx for info!!

  • @inquisitvem6723

    @inquisitvem6723

    Жыл бұрын

    I have a half dying 4 ft shrub in front of my yard that just chainsawed off, but the roots and stump hard to remove. Will this kill vinegar and table salt like you did kill it with drilling holes? I was just gonna spray it.

  • @dogsareawomansbestfriend

    @dogsareawomansbestfriend

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @catholic3dod790

    @catholic3dod790

    10 ай бұрын

    Where did you buy table salt?

  • @godwillprevail2188
    @godwillprevail21882 жыл бұрын

    I've cut my tree down the same hight as your tree, then I used an angle grinder and I made the top part of the stump hollow. I poured pure white vinegar into the hollow(almost like a bowl) part of the stump. The stump absorbed the vinegar very quickly, but I kept on filling it up during the day. I've only realized the next day that there was still a vinegar puddle in the "bowl". Obviously the stump had enough of all the vinegar and that was also the end of the stump. This happened 6 years ago and the stump is still very much dead. 😉 The bark started coming loose after a good couple of months though.

  • @annburrell3913

    @annburrell3913

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks I will do the same

  • @mirandafriske4525
    @mirandafriske452510 ай бұрын

    2 years later to revisit that tree for our viewing purposes? I appreciate your dedication in creating this video for us. :)

  • @evolution405
    @evolution405Ай бұрын

    Like your backyard expements. What solution would you suggest for keeping eucalyptus bark tree permanently moist/ prevent the bark from recoiling as it dries out?

  • @wendybauman4312
    @wendybauman43126 ай бұрын

    I took a huge Chinese Elm down and the stump got ground down…BUT lots of growth around the original stump and even in the yard further away!!! Want to plant the area and it’s close to my house…don’t want to ruin the soil for planting! Please HELP with ideas.

  • @suzannevega2289
    @suzannevega2289 Жыл бұрын

    I used the industrial strength vinegar, epsom salt & dawn dish soap on 3 trees last spring/ summer. drilled holes as deep as I could, filled with solution then covered with dirt & mulch, some say to cover with plastic bag but I have too much wild life around for that. I repeated several times. My tree stumps seem to be dead, there has been no new growth and the bark has fallen. I also use this solution as a weed killer on sidewalks, driveway but not in flowerbed or garden (obviously)

  • @petersack5074

    @petersack5074

    11 ай бұрын

    Very good, Suzanne ! Strong vinegar, epsom salts, and Dawn, to keep the previous two ingredients, to ' stick ' together. Also, usefull for ants.

  • @mydogsareneat
    @mydogsareneat9 ай бұрын

    I find vinegar has a "through the fires" effect. It kills MOST plants. But sometimes they pull through and are insanely stronger and just grow really fast.

  • @RRaucina
    @RRaucina3 жыл бұрын

    Dish soap is a fine surfactant, cheap and everywhere.

  • @dfinite4089

    @dfinite4089

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bubbling in the yard, also what about the other ingredients in the soap?

  • @brianpauley1151
    @brianpauley1151 Жыл бұрын

    I set fire to stumps, adding limbs, twigs, etc. Works great to stop regrowth and a fine way to help me drain beer cans as i watch stumps burn.

  • @markmitchell3097

    @markmitchell3097

    11 ай бұрын

    Same here. Miller brewing is happy when I burn stumps

  • @yourfriend.533
    @yourfriend.533 Жыл бұрын

    Can I use distilled waterr

  • @dagoth_ur8755
    @dagoth_ur87553 жыл бұрын

    Will urea work

  • @sandy-rr1by
    @sandy-rr1by3 жыл бұрын

    might it have killed the weed trees if there had been some broken branches to give access to the living inside parts? i am gonna try this on a 40year old tree cut to the ground last year, trying to regrow. thanks for the idea!

  • @uelrington9270

    @uelrington9270

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pour laundry bleach few time , it kills well in short time !!

  • @chicksgrowtoo

    @chicksgrowtoo

    Жыл бұрын

    Did it work? What exactly did you’d & use?

  • @ejeanroh377
    @ejeanroh3776 күн бұрын

    Many years ago, I cut down large pyracantha bushes, drilled holes, and filled with salt... regular table salt. The stumps rotted and I hammered them away.Yes, it took a couple of Summers but they've never grown back... So, vinegar will work!!!

  • @pennynealeigh6557
    @pennynealeigh65577 ай бұрын

    Maybe if the treatment was applied to the living layer, rather than than the stumps

  • @barrynat9256
    @barrynat9256 Жыл бұрын

    Cool...Any idea on how to prevent a tree from growing taller instead..? I have two coconut trees that keep growing taller, I don't want to kill them, i just want to stop them from growing. I'm curious to know if watering them with a solution composed of water + 5% vinegar would do the trick

  • @creeperFIN123

    @creeperFIN123

    4 ай бұрын

    Smaller pot or root space should do but vinegar will just make the tree sick and slowly die. The trees will die anyway in a pot thats way too small tho

  • @RR98guy

    @RR98guy

    13 күн бұрын

    Stihl MS661 is your answer

  • @k.b.tidwell
    @k.b.tidwell6 ай бұрын

    It's not a tree, but I'd throw in the Chinese Privet. It's very, very similar to what he destroyed here, and it may be the same plant. It's classed as a large hedge or small tree, but here in the South (and according to Southern Living website, from Maryland to Florida to Texas) it's EVERYWHERE. If you're familiar with kudzu, then this is the woody version of that, and like kudzu, a Chinese import. It's super-fast growing, and if you kill it residual seeds on the ground grow two years later. Very hardy, and I've had success with Brush Top killer, but I hate the toxicity to humans. I'm going to try the vinegar on some grow-backs I've got. The root system grows like in the video here, in a huge radius around the stumps, and I'd bet that those later growths he showed were from the same roots.

  • @michigan160
    @michigan16010 ай бұрын

    Vinegar and salt... it will work

  • @jameswinsett7814
    @jameswinsett7814 Жыл бұрын

    I had an oak tree removed because the roots started to grow towards the surface. I had the stump removed and now the roots that were left in the ground are sprouting new little trees . How can I kill those without d÷terring grass growth?

  • @creeperFIN123

    @creeperFIN123

    4 ай бұрын

    Seems like you have fertile soil that wants to be a forest. Does this grass have a use or are you protecting just useless lawn from trees?

  • @stereotypo1
    @stereotypo15 ай бұрын

    I didn't watch this. But I wonder if the tree was removed like the copper nails one.

  • @TomokoAbe_
    @TomokoAbe_3 жыл бұрын

    I love your page. I think you are great! I hate trees. Thank God I got all of mine cut down.

  • @btwitskler

    @btwitskler

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tree are our lives shut up

  • @oneofgodschildren

    @oneofgodschildren

    Жыл бұрын

    I cut all mine down too for 6500.00 p(i)ssed off my neighbors in the back but it's my property so whatever lol

  • @vandabaker6236
    @vandabaker6236 Жыл бұрын

    Instead of vinegar you could use hydrochloric acid (stronger). You can use dish soap as a surfactant

  • @catholic3dod790

    @catholic3dod790

    10 ай бұрын

    Where did you buy a hydrochloric acid?

  • @terrydoll91

    @terrydoll91

    10 ай бұрын

    Muriatic acid is a dilute hydrochloric acid sold everywhere

  • @catholic3dod790

    @catholic3dod790

    10 ай бұрын

    @@terrydoll91 Okay, thanks

  • @andrewnacua174

    @andrewnacua174

    5 ай бұрын

    How to mix muriatic acid to dish soap to kill the trees is it directly to put in the trees?

  • @AndrewLumsden
    @AndrewLumsden5 ай бұрын

    Put caustic soda granules in the holes you drilled into the stump.

  • @joepern1
    @joepern12 жыл бұрын

    What about the 2 you used 5% vinegar on. You didn't report on those or I missed it.

  • @Rayblondie
    @Rayblondie2 жыл бұрын

    Creosote works.

  • @beckyromero494
    @beckyromero494 Жыл бұрын

    Distilled vinegar an Dawn soap

  • @the_fomoco_man5160
    @the_fomoco_man51603 жыл бұрын

    Any truth to drilling half inch holes in the trunk, filling them with rock salt, and adding enough water to dissolve the salt?

  • @Jordan-vx5op

    @Jordan-vx5op

    2 жыл бұрын

    I've done that with molasses with great success every time!

  • @petersack5074

    @petersack5074

    11 ай бұрын

    Oh yeah. Drill the holes at an angle, and the main area of tree suction from the roots, is JUST UNDER the bark. The first 1/4 inch or so, of the actual WOOD of the tree. Holes should be facing a downward angle ; work WITH gravity, not against it. Epsom or rock salt, and a strong vinegar, DON'T USE WATER. Vinegar of 7 or more percent acetic acid, i use even 10 %. Cover those holes, to keep rain water, bugs, etc OUT. Tarp strap a large bag, over the holey area......for lack of better terms....

  • @doylemarkham1010
    @doylemarkham1010 Жыл бұрын

    Might try salting. Might sterilize the soil.

  • @andisandis3144
    @andisandis31442 жыл бұрын

    Maybe just cleaning up the yard and disposing of all that mess would help you have a better looking yard. Vinegar and waiting. Just get busy. Yeah. Use roundup as you said. ROUNDUP? Yep, we need more carcinogens in the environment. Great thinking!!!

  • @taffykins2745

    @taffykins2745

    2 жыл бұрын

    Did you know Roundup becomes ineffective once it hits the soil. Yep, soil neutralizes it. I learned that from a Master Gardener who is a retired scientist from USDA. As far as the snide remark about cleaning up the yard? MYOB. Dude lives in a rural area. You don't mow the forest. Didn't your mother ever tell you if you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing at all? It's good advice. Use it.

  • @scorpiohurley6786
    @scorpiohurley67869 ай бұрын

    is this the same spot you used bleach in another video ...ROFL 🤣 🤣

  • @jaymzgaetz2006
    @jaymzgaetz20069 ай бұрын

    Wait he killed 3 trees to learn how to kill 1 stump and came up with an inconclusive answer?! Wow...we deserve to die.

  • @stuartmarkman769
    @stuartmarkman7699 ай бұрын

    I have a bamboo problem that I am going too be working n after the hurricane goes by. I am not sure how it will work out but bamboo is real tough and I have way too much too dig it by had. I am going too use a defoliant and hope it works.

  • @steveclark4291

    @steveclark4291

    7 ай бұрын

    Bamboo roots are near the top of the ground ! About only way to kill Bamboo is kill all of the roots if not it will just come back ! I never have had Bamboo around but that's what I have been told !

  • @RR98guy

    @RR98guy

    13 күн бұрын

    @@steveclark4291 Bamboo are like a bad house guest, good like getting rid of them.

  • @marieholly559
    @marieholly559 Жыл бұрын

    Have treat the tree more than one time, it works.😂

  • @ferbarca3107
    @ferbarca31073 жыл бұрын

    Wanted to ask you if used car oil would kill a tree?

  • @HowToKillATreeTV

    @HowToKillATreeTV

    3 жыл бұрын

    I haven’t tried that but I don’t think it would work.

  • @wizardindustriesusa

    @wizardindustriesusa

    Жыл бұрын

    No.

  • @albertmwelase3528

    @albertmwelase3528

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes but must be old oil that was drain from engen not new oil

  • @josephtpg2205
    @josephtpg2205 Жыл бұрын

    I know it kills big thistles. Use it straight.

  • @dickfournier7610
    @dickfournier761010 ай бұрын

    It's called way more acidity not vinegary!

  • @odimarbatista3976
    @odimarbatista397610 ай бұрын

    Pronounced yooka, not yaaka.

  • @vintagegirlsforever
    @vintagegirlsforever Жыл бұрын

    Epsom salt works great 👍

  • @oneofgodschildren
    @oneofgodschildren2 жыл бұрын

    Way more acidic. " vinagarry " 🤣🤣🤣

  • @harikumar7505

    @harikumar7505

    Жыл бұрын

    in south Indian malayalam, we call it vinaagiri

  • @billlawrence5959
    @billlawrence595910 ай бұрын

    Cutting a tree down isn’t like killing a live tree.

  • @warrenfox707
    @warrenfox707 Жыл бұрын

    I spray mine down and then spray them again Mother Nature's haunted knockout it away

  • @davidrymal7559
    @davidrymal75597 ай бұрын

    I also read bleach works

  • @atiyaislam8693
    @atiyaislam86932 жыл бұрын

    Any of the people who're out there,kindly answer this question for me.Can vinegar and salt kill a small plant?Not a big tree,just a normal small plant.I need this urgently.Please someone tell.I'll be grateful for any of your suggestions.

  • @badsidi

    @badsidi

    2 жыл бұрын

    Vinegar+salt+dish soap kill weed. Trees I don't know

  • @moerelan1

    @moerelan1

    Жыл бұрын

    I had the weed with thisle it was hard to dig or pull it out. They kept popping out more a d more. The weed mostly comes before plants or grass. I poured lots of regular table salt around itS roots. Then some water over it. Waited for the result,then I do t know why,I poured vinegar about one cup the bottle you get from grocery store. Yes it never xane back at the same spot.followed this at otherspits ,thank God no more weed has been noted. How long,I don't know but ,I will try same thing.

  • @inquisitvem6723

    @inquisitvem6723

    Жыл бұрын

    I have a half dying 4 ft shrub in front of my yard that I just chainsawed off, but the roots and stump hard to remove. Will this combo of vinegar and table salt like you did kill it without drilling holes? I was just gonna spray or pour it.

  • @nanatam8504
    @nanatam85043 жыл бұрын

    yeah they do kill your tree happened to me

  • @RobertJohns-sp2kf
    @RobertJohns-sp2kf3 ай бұрын

    Drive a copper spike in it.

  • @brummiedoug1
    @brummiedoug1 Жыл бұрын

    Didn’t cutting the tree down sort of kill it

  • @steveclark4291

    @steveclark4291

    7 ай бұрын

    Not always many trees comes back after being cut down because the roots stores food . I have cut a few trees down just to have little spouts grow from the stump .

  • @AndrewLumsden

    @AndrewLumsden

    5 ай бұрын

    That only equates to a brutal pruning.

  • @durangowayne
    @durangowayne2 жыл бұрын

    Wear do you buy 30 % viniger

  • @dw3992

    @dw3992

    Жыл бұрын

    Online.

  • @JL-vx1rb

    @JL-vx1rb

    11 ай бұрын

    Walmarts gardening section. Saw sci e yesterday.

  • @margaretmarshall3645

    @margaretmarshall3645

    Ай бұрын

    I’ve seen it at Home Depot.

  • @TomokoAbe_
    @TomokoAbe_3 жыл бұрын

    Round Up 100% pure concentrate will do the trick too LOL

  • @katiem1988

    @katiem1988

    2 жыл бұрын

    Right but Roundup is not safe and cancer causing. If you've got pets or kids in the yard, not a good idea.

  • @homesweet6227
    @homesweet62273 жыл бұрын

    It does not, i tried it but ....i even put salt and baking soda

  • @jamartin005

    @jamartin005

    2 жыл бұрын

    Baking soda ruined it. The point of vinegar is to reduce the ph level drastically. The baking soda just brings it back up making the vinegar useless

  • @kfergus3662
    @kfergus36629 ай бұрын

    Cut it at the root

  • @rezzer7918
    @rezzer7918 Жыл бұрын

    Omg wht an ah

  • @SFBenjaminK
    @SFBenjaminK2 жыл бұрын

    Between this or bleach..i use bleach

  • @migdaliarosa7792
    @migdaliarosa7792 Жыл бұрын

    How to kill a pine tree?

  • @ishtiaqali6955
    @ishtiaqali6955 Жыл бұрын

    man ..you have a very long life...every tree you cut and treat with somthing ..then you wait two years...so imagin 100 trees...i mean each tree after two years..calculate yourself

  • @jennyli501
    @jennyli5012 ай бұрын

    b

  • @gordonduke7174
    @gordonduke71746 ай бұрын

    Vinegar will NOT kill a tree .

  • @donrsatterfield53
    @donrsatterfield532 жыл бұрын

    😢 r

  • @romanmaimo1468
    @romanmaimo1468 Жыл бұрын

    Diesel will dose a better job

  • @smoothcriminal7232
    @smoothcriminal72322 жыл бұрын

    Try Coke

  • @dannapolitano9616
    @dannapolitano96163 жыл бұрын

    This guy wastes my time every video

  • @RRaucina

    @RRaucina

    3 жыл бұрын

    Blondes; What do you expect?

  • @manowar6009

    @manowar6009

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sleddar hahahaha

  • @taffykins2745

    @taffykins2745

    2 жыл бұрын

    Don't watch it then. Duh. Some of us enjoy it. So pzz off.

  • @rosiejimenez3953
    @rosiejimenez3953 Жыл бұрын

    Huh? What's your point? 🤔 Your writing as well as grammer could use improvement.

  • @thatguy-art6229
    @thatguy-art6229 Жыл бұрын

    YOU WOULD DO BETTER WORKING IN RADIO - UGH

  • @petercheng4081
    @petercheng4081 Жыл бұрын

    Vintage! Is racist

  • @Cindy-vg9ki
    @Cindy-vg9ki3 жыл бұрын

    Lol Yucca is pronounced YOU-Cuh not yuckuh.

  • @taffykins2745

    @taffykins2745

    2 жыл бұрын

    Depends on where you live. Everyone I know says yuckah.

  • @valtoton2982

    @valtoton2982

    28 күн бұрын

    I just came to say... it definitely depends where you live! Over the past 5 decades I've only heard Yuccah.... 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @johnnylee2027
    @johnnylee2027 Жыл бұрын

    what woul be the best way to kill a tree slowly? so people wont notice

  • @princemurali5509

    @princemurali5509

    Жыл бұрын

    Same question

  • @steveclark4291

    @steveclark4291

    7 ай бұрын

    Look it up on KZread as there is many suggestions on how and what to use ! I'm looking up many different ways to kill trees as they're trying to take over my little farm !

  • @RobertJohns-sp2kf
    @RobertJohns-sp2kf3 ай бұрын

    Drive a copper spike in it.