outofmytree
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Well at least the good folk of Mildura can now see the Volkswagon dealership.
And done often enough, you may get enough callusing to make it sustainable? I'm no euc man, but they are not that different from silver maples. there's More than one way to handle a topped tree.Well at least the good folk of Mildura can now see the Volkswagon dealership.
The sprouts were not reduced, perhaps due in part to all this thou-shalt-not-leave-a-stub preaching
Now what is the logic here?
That reducing the sprouts means leaving them as stubs too rather than cutting to target?
Not with the logic stream here.:monkey:
This has gone on a long time, those trees are crap and should be removed! It is a complex of units that house people and if no funds ( budget) allow it , cut it back to the old cuts and leave a big ugly stump in the ground and wait for a call in a couple of years to do the same old thing over.opcorn:
Jeff
These extra pictures might help with an ID.
If the owners really want to retain the trees then there certainly are well established pruning methods to try and manage the current epicormic regrowth.
Relative strengths within branch unions is a topic that is just slightly more complex than any blanket statement can convey. Epicormic regrowth can become the scaffold framework for a healthy stable tree canopy....those tree can be managed over a long period to grow a canopy that has some resemblance of what the undamaged canopy might have looked like.
More often than not a combination of misunderstanding tree biology ... leads to what I would consider to be a poor choice in management options. ...
The logic is that secondary growth is wealkly attached and must be reduced within a certain amount of time or else.
It is illogical to assume otherwise as the results are self evident in the pics.
Are you saying that a euc can be topped once at maturity, and then safely maintained without topping it again at some point?
I admit to being somewhat shocked, if you are indeed saying that Ekka.
jomoco
Never said that and not saying that, read my post in it's entirety again.
I get to do a few topping renovations every year....SOP is to remove the regrowth that is obviously weak or badly attached, cut off any irredemable stubs and nasty stuff, remaining sprouts are reduced or directional pruned if there is sufficient branching, and some of the long skinny sprouts with no developed branches 1 - 2" thick, are cut back...to a node!
Leaving long whippy sprouts intact is asking for them to tear off in the next wind...
during the revisit in a year or two, those sprouts have either developed nice side shoots and can be further worked, or have died...the ones that die are small enough not to have caused a problem, can be cut off or snapped off and the wound usually closes over fairly quickly...
Poinciana, Casuarina, Albizzia, Persea, Tabebuia, Cocoloba...all species this is done on.
Despite tipping my hat to access line clearance I cannot support topping trees just because that is what was done previously. With all the alternatives posted just in this thread there is a solution to even those poor abused mongrels in Mildura. Which is not to say we don't have our own chainsaw victims over here either!
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Is is odd to me that dynamic cabling has such a low profile in Australia where it could, in the case of the trees pictured, have such a profound impact. Tragically if you want to see professional cabling done here you have to go to Kings Park Botanical Graden cos there is 3/5 of 5/8 of #### all done elsewhere.
Despite tipping my hat to access line clearance I cannot support topping trees just because that is what was done previously. With all the alternatives posted just in this thread there is a solution to even those poor abused mongrels in Mildura. Which is not to say we don't have our own chainsaw victims over here either!
Is is odd to me that dynamic cabling has such a low profile in Australia where it could, in the case of the trees pictured, have such a profound impact. Tragically if you want to see professional cabling done here you have to go to Kings Park Botanical Graden cos there is 3/5 of 5/8 of #### all done elsewhere.
Geez, that takes all the fun out of it!...the majority will continue to search for a universal fix rather than to have to use our brains to provide solutions to specific tree issues.