Fruit reduction

[Arborsmith]

Has anyone had sucess reducing fruiting on Sweetgums? Please share ideas/leads for my research.

Thanks for help

 

[Ed Roland]

We tried for years at the BTR Lab with very little success.

Application timing is such that those products really do not seem effective enough to be on the market. If the good doctors at the lab have little success then a peon like me should avoid the practice.

Encourage the seed. Wildlife enjoys it. You could always try the rotunda loba swetgum. No gum balls. Nice looking landscape tree.

 

[treeseer]

The fruits are fun--why reduce them?

rotundiloba have crappy fall color, poor form, and they revert.

other than that they are nifty!