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Old May 6th 04, 01:39 PM
CaptCook
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Default Wild Driftwood Preparation

"Kodiak" wrote...
Anyone have experience collecting wild driftwood?
What processing steps do you need to take? Boiling
with salt, disinfecting etc. Is this a dangeroius proposition?
Bought Store driftwood is bloody expensive.


There have been many techniques offered on sites. My own is: No one
knows what chemicals were sprayed on the tree or what is in the water.
So I do not use driftwood. Instead I use dead branches from the
honeysuckle hedge. I whack them on the sidewalk until nothing further
falls off. I put them in the aquarium. In time they sink. There is
a noted time when 2 mushrooms grew on one floating branch.