Red Beech trimming

[Boa07]

My 2 cents, ....focus on the soil and roots, put your time and money there....definately avoid removing more live tissue, the negatives far outweigh the percieved advantages, remember decay fungi do not all move from obvious external injury sites inwards, many are already have an incipient presence in the wood tissues via long occluded damage (large and small).

 

[coolbrze]

My uncle's looking into spraying the tree. What would you recommend for the BBD? Again, this tree is hundreds of years old and is the foundation for his "Red Beech Farm" & he wants to do whatever he can to preserve the tree.

 

[treeseer]

My uncle's looking into spraying the tree. What would you recommend for the BBD? Again, this tree is hundreds of years old and is the foundation for his "Red Beech Farm" & he wants to do whatever he can to preserve the tree.

Glad you came back; I was kinda rough re the pruning. I'm a hardass I admit it.

Re the next step, your uncle should listen to Boa and do right by the roots for a change. Deliver him some mulch! No spray to kill nectria I know of. Maybe an injectable systemic next spring when uptake is better. If his beautiful estate is named after the tree, surely it is more important than that skimpy excuse for a lawn.