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How the heck do I do that? I got these growing on an old Log. Do I just cut it off and throw them in the holes? lol
Those are bracket fungi - they are very hard
They are not edible - some could be used as medicine. But some are poisonous.
Their spores are underneath the “bracket” in small tubes. You could knock them over the stumps or leave the cap pieces inside your drill holes?
Try to ID your bracket mushrooms first, maybe you are better off with other types?
I can’t ID it - not enough for ID. Try yourself - is the tree log from the beech?
You could try edible mushrooms. You could purchase the spawn or collect spores- even from the store bought mushrooms - just by leaving a cap on a medium. The medium is different - according to the mushroom type you are trying to grow.
I was able to grow shiitake from the spores on wood chips - from the store bought/the ones I needed to discard. Just placed it on wood chips and noted the location - you don’t want bad mushrooms to grow and eat them by chance - stay safe.
Look into FungiPerfecti company or similar
We gave up after 2 1/2 years with a huge juniper pine stump. We let it dry out, drilled holes, packed them with lint and hit it with a match, tried Stump Out and finally our patience gave out. We called the tree service and they ground it out for us. It was out on the back lawn and now it is all grass.
And no, not rotted out yet. Curious if the holes or the cuts will rot out first.
Trees are so incredibly resilient around here. You can top them off and even cut the entire thing down at the base and they'll still grow!
Yeah, so anytime I see somebody cutting down a locust tree, I turn to my kids and say "That person will have two dozen locust trees by this time next year," and like clockwork it happens.
Not all trees coppice or sucker, but lots of common hardwoods do.
My bradford pear was taken out a few years ago. I let the stump sit for lack of not knowing or caring about what to do about it. Last month, I had some volunteers from my church help to clean up my yard. They cut that stump down to the base and when I went to dig it up it had decomposed on its own. I didn't do anything to help it along. There are still some thick roots I will need to take care of soon. One of those volunteers told me to drill holes in stumps and then pour buttermilk in them. I haven't done the buttermilk part yet as I'm still deciding what I want to come back in a smaller form.
I had a leak in my main water line and had to replace it. I'm trying to cut down on the roots that run around my yard where that line is now.
I have had removed five old oak trees. (Still have 12 more.) The oldest stump is 7 years old and is still mostly there. But there was a large hollow in it, so I filled it with leaves and dirt and planted hosta which love it. The newest stumps are two chestnut oaks, one is rotting fast, the other not so fast. I have tried on all of them different things: drilling holes, leaving them to rot, drilling holes and putting in fertilizer, sour milk. In the end, I think it is just what's going on underneath that we can't see. Termites love the stumps here in the south for what that's worth knowing.
You might want to get some "tree root product" to speed up the decay process. (Or, fill each hole up with diesel fuel, a few times.)
Better yet, pay someone with a root grinder to pulp the stump into chips, then use the chips as compost material. This is the best option as it's instantaneous. And, it's beneficial to your yard.
If the grinder operator knows what he's doing, he'll contact BUD to check for any utilities underneath. I had a hemlock cut down but they couldn't do anything to the stump because the natural gas line from the street to my house was right underneath. All the vibration from the grinder could affect the gas line.
I can't help myself. I have to put my neighbor's "stump" pictures up. The tree was brittle, and started to calve off branches the size of - well, gigantic branches attached to great chunks of the tree. In one picture, the same tree (that didn't calve) is on the left and when its brother was cut to a stump, they told the neighbor it was still a live tree and could re-grow from the stump. What you see on the right, and in the other picture, is their passive decision that I feel we're all going to live to regret.
The actual stump in the foreground is my dead pear tree, and I'm on it.
And no, not rotted out yet. Curious if the holes or the cuts will rot out first.
Trees are so incredibly resilient around here. You can top them off and even cut the entire thing down at the base and they'll still grow!
The issues of the sprouting is - cambium- is still alive
Remove the bark - completely - put some fertilizer into the stump’s holes, put some grass clipping combined with a bit of old leaves combo - cover with the layer of soil and pee/water on it - that’s the natural way.
Your stump got dry over the winter (like a firewood )- moisture is the key to decomposition - luckily you will have heat over the summer - just add moisture and a microbial inoculant - compost/good loam, etc
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cambium- 
)- moisture is the key to decomposition - luckily you will have heat over the summer - just add moisture and a microbial inoculant - compost/good loam, etc