killing a tree with copper Nail ?

Answer 1

Here's part of an answer that someone paid for (!) on google answers - this bit relates to the copper nail technique.

"Yes, if the nail is big enough to harm the base of the tree. It can open an entry for infection and disease. You also need to consider how big is the nail and the tree. Driving a copper nail has physical, chemical, and biological actions playing together. If the tree dies, it will not be easy to know precisely what the main cause was acting. Copper as a metallic form is not harmfull to tree nutrition. It needs to oxidize, to solubilize and then be absorbed. Absorption of copper at the bark level may not occur, while high levels of copper ion in the soil rooting system may lead to toxicity. Many species of trees also will respond differently to this stress related to nails in their bases. In biology we do not play yes/no answer!"

Answer 2

I dont know about killing a tree, but an old trick for killing roots used to be hammering in old pennies, again maybe the copper in them would have an effect simmilar to copper nails.

Answer 3

You sound like a neighbours tree is in your way or something & you want to do a sneeky kill job on it! If not ..just cut the fooker down with a really sharp axe! A copper nail works but it takes moons for the thing to die and fall over.

Answer 4

Why do U want 2 kill a tree?
What did the tree do 2 U?
Never heard of copper nail, sounds nasty.

Answer 5

I have an Elm tree dying in my yard that has a copper plaque nailed to it, saying the lady's name that planted it in 1937, so it may have killed the tree like my dad said it would or being an Elm may have commited Elmacide like they do. The plaque is grown over with bark in spots and the area above it is still trying to grow, so the answer is... MAYBE

Answer 6

It is more often used to stop parts reshooting once a branch has been cut off. If you want to kill the tree of I would suggest popping down to your local garden centre and buying some stump rot which will cost you around £4.50. Of course you could dig the whole thing up! If you are killing it off you would need to remove all the branches anyway otherwise it would become dangerous. See the link below for further advise.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles1102/tree_stumps.asp

Answer 7

It can but i,ve never seen the proof to confirm this. I've cut trees and found nails of all descriptions inside the trunks, sometimes at the core of the trunk and yet the diameter of the tree was in excess of three feet!
I know of other sneaky ways to kill trees but i wont divulge these.

Answer 8

Yes...this aloy has properties that will kill most trees. Even driving one in it's trunk will cause harm

Answer 9

ancient superstition based on fact, but it is a long slow and painful death for the tree

Answer 10

The nail doesn't kill it the corrosion does .