Driftwood!

[MountainExplorer]

Hello all,

Just curious on how to prepare driftwood as of cleaning without braking the wood. Are there bugs in the wood if it's dead already?

I found a couple of nice pieces but I don' wanna bring any unwanted fellas home into my grow room.

Thanks,
Tim

 

[evolutionrevolution]

I've heard of folks baking driftwood when being used in animal enclosures to kill pests. YMMV.

 

[BE.REAL]

I have read and done on a few, is put them in a large bag, and powder or spray it good with any and all bug/insect/spider killer I have. Be sure to get into the pockets, crevices, shari, jin and everywhere. Ha. I then seal up the bag. this will suffocate the littles creepers and the bug killer will do the rest. I left it like that for a long time. I did "burp" the bag when I remembered and/or tripped over it. After a good soaking and sun bathing( the deadwood not me! hahaha) a few times, Have yet to see anything on it, near it , in it, or anything else again. I have yet to figure out what to create with it, but when I do look out! HAHA Oh and hope I don't need to say to protect it after all that. like leaving out in the yard, or back under a bench in a cool, wet space. Being sarcastic, but yeah put somewhere dry. If left in the sun for hours and hours, days and months , the natural bleaching will be of pimp status. Be well!

 

[MountainExplorer]

I have read and done on a few, is put them in a large bag, and powder or spray it good with any and all bug/insect/spider killer I have. Be sure to get into the pockets, crevices, shari, jin and everywhere. Ha. I then seal up the bag. this will suffocate the littles creepers and the bug killer will do the rest. I left it like that for a long time. I did "burp" the bag when I remembered and/or tripped over it. After a good soaking and sun bathing( the deadwood not me! hahaha) a few times, Have yet to see anything on it, near it , in it, or anything else again. I have yet to figure out what to create with it, but when I do look out! HAHA Oh and hope I don't need to say to protect it after all that. like leaving out in the yard, or back under a bench in a cool, wet space. Being sarcastic, but yeah put somewhere dry. If left in the sun for hours and hours, days and months , the natural bleaching will be of pimp status. Be well!

Thank you

 

[River's Edge]

I would be inclined to seal in a bag and put it in the freezer for a couple of months. Not sure the chemicals would permeate the inner sanctums of borers. Longer periods of freezing are known to kill boring insects and there larvae. Ie: Pine beetle

 

[River's Edge]

For cleaning i like the following gizmo for cracks and crevices.

 

[BE.REAL]

When you say freezer, do you mean outside when its 5 degrees? Cause if so, then yes...hahaha! also when I say powdered....think Scarface. I had a large trunk break of a tree at work(4 foots dia.) last year during the crap load of snow we got and the bottom portion broke off in a cool way that I saved it. wanted to do a chainsaw carving, a stand for a tree....as usual my mind runs crazy with ideas, on my second journal with them,ahaha...anywho...I dosed the thing, and made all sorts of cuts in it to get deep. every day I would knock it over and watch the buggers fly, that went on for like a month, before I stopped seeing them fall out. so time is your friend, cause insects are no joke. when dosing use the DE, got a big ole bag of it.