under_the_hill
ArboristSite Member
A customer called me out to evaluate his maple tree and I don't recall reading anything in the past that would give a good explanation for how his tree looks. It was planted about 8 years ago and the customer said it's done well up until this year and had a full canopy last year. The new growth looks excellent, but there are no leaves in the interior of the tree, except a few twigs (1/8" diameter) that have managed to put one or two leaves right on the tips. From several position around the tree you can see right through the tree.
Customer applied fertilizer last winter. The maple has a mild-medium case of gloomy scale. Lots of bark expansion fissures that look like a healthy transition from the young smooth bark to the eventual older rough bark. A good amount of lichen on the interior. There is perhaps one minor girdling root that is affecting up to 10% of the circumference of the trunk.
Is this just one of those things?
Customer applied fertilizer last winter. The maple has a mild-medium case of gloomy scale. Lots of bark expansion fissures that look like a healthy transition from the young smooth bark to the eventual older rough bark. A good amount of lichen on the interior. There is perhaps one minor girdling root that is affecting up to 10% of the circumference of the trunk.
Is this just one of those things?
