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honey fungus
georgina leyland
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bad case of honey fungus mushrooms which stem from roots and old trunk of beech tree stump.. has anyone any solutions to kill it. This is BAD! Jeyes fluid?? help please. Mother is 93 and it is in her garden. I live 400 miles away so need quick solution. help!
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Unfortunately, there is no quick fix for Honey fungus and there are no chemical treatments available. You need to remove the stump and all roots, having them ground out if the dead tree was a large one - HF requires a home of dead wood to spread from, so you need to remove its 'home base'. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
have you heard of using jeyes fluid watered onto dreaded mushrooms?
The mushrooms are merely the fruiting bodies - the main body of the fungus lives inside dead wood and spreads by rhizomorphs in the soil (which look like boot laces, hence the common name of 'bootlace fungus'.) There used to be a chemical called armillotox which was sometimes used but it is now illegal to use that (or Jeyes fluid) for soil sterilization. That's probably a good thing as they also destroy all of the 'goodies' in the soil and eradication of Honey fungus was never really proven.
More information in this factsheet:
http://www.gov.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=4797&p=0
You could try something called Actiferm. It stops pathogenic fungi and bacteria, I saw it in an article about box blight in the telegraph, so it might be useful for this too.
More info from here:
http://www.shop.embiotechsolutions.co.uk/EM-Actiferm-Microbial-Soil-Inoculant-3L-Actiferm-3L.htm
thank you all for suggestions. We wont discuss Jeyes fluid any further then!!
Will also find out about Actiferm
Actiferm doesn't claim to cure honey fungus. It's advertised as a soil improver, to promote healthy plant growth.
Healthy plants are less susceptible to disease.
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