Honey Fungus

I'm sorry to say there is no treatment for eradicating honey fungus, but you'd be well advised to have the stump removed (although stable door, horse and bolt spring to mind...). How sure are you its honey fungus? All kinds of fungal growths appear on dead tree stumps, most of which aren't honey fungus.

Hi Luckeb and welcome to GoY. Perhaps you could take a photo of the fungus and add it to your question. Then we would be able to tell you if it is actually honey fungus, as Bamboo says all sorts of fungal growths appear on dead tree stumps.

If it turns out to be the dreaded honey fungus I did read somewhere that some people have tried digging a trench all round the tree some distance away and putting Jeyes fluid in it but don't know if it works or what it might do to surrounding plants.

Well it would kill the plants Stera

True - but I guess it would save the surrounding trees. Still if there's something better that's great. Its a long time ago that I heard that and there've probably been lots of advances since then.

Luckeb does the fungus look like black bootlaces?

armillatox

Armillatox rarely worked for honey fungus anyway, and is in fact now only sold as a soap based disinfectant for cleaning pots and greenhouses. It is illegal to use it in open ground/soil.

It wil be illegal to empty the teapot in the garden before long...

It is not illegal to use. The EU wanted safety data to give it a licence. Makers of Armillatox said stuff that.
It is the same formula labelled differently. If you want to use it for loads of different things then give them a ring and they will send you a booklet on dilution rates.
Wonderful stuff.

Well, obviously, if you buy a product, how you choose to use it is within your remit - but the effectiveness of armillatox for honey fungus is poor anyway, and is no longer recommended as a possible treatment. If what the asker has is honey fungus anyway, because without any response or more info, its hard to know whether it is or isn't. If the mushrooms/toadstools are currently present, it ain't honey fungus...

Have you tried it?

Not for 24 years! Once was enough, bloomin' hard work digging out and replacing all that soil and treating with armillatox, only to have the honey fungus still present. Haven't bothered since - the last time I found it in a garden 5 years ago, we removed the stump it was on and other affected plants, and replanted with stuff honey fungus is unlikely to attack. Fine so far.

Sorry, I meant to say for all the other things it is used for, eg, black spot on roses, onion white rot, cabbage root fly.
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With honey fungus, it's more of a protective for neighbouring trees, and my reference to it was using that, not Jeyes fluid.

I wasn't thinking Jeyes, I assumed you meant armillatox - I have never used it for anything, is the answer, well, not since that attempt at eradicating honey fungus..