TCI magazine

[treeseer]

I'm wondering if anyone who read the June TCI magazine had comments about the lightning article. So far aside from the 6:40 a.m. phone call about ionic charges I heard from just one guy who berated me for calling a Liriodendron a tulip poplar as a common name; he said tuliptree was the correct common name. OK, and...

I'm currently talking to TCI about future articles so I'm wondering about what readers want or do not want to see.

It's wide open for comment--when something goes out to 28,000 people and all I get is 2 comments (I agreed with both, to a point) I don't have much to go on. So far future topics are Root Pruning for July, already submitted, Restoring Topped Trees for September and Restoring Storm-Damaged Trees IV for October.

Anyone with pics or experience to share on the latter 2 are welcome to send pics or whatever. I may start threads on those soon.

 

[lxt]

the restoring topped trees would be welcomed, in my area Ive been arriving to the customer to find previously topped trees that their now unhappy with.

A remedy for this would be greatly helpful.

Lxt.

 

[Kate Butler]

I'm looking forward to all of 'em -- there's no such thing as too much learning. Particularly if it makes you smarter at something you love.

 

[Ekka]

How about topping vs nodal pruning ... telling the difference.

 

[treeseer]

How about topping vs nodal pruning ... telling the difference.

Thanks Eric, it'll come. Doing lots of dissections as part of research at the U. Trouble is the best samples of 'nodal pruning' are now too valuable as branch ends to sacrifice.

 

[Ekka]

Time for a sacrifice perhaps in the name of science.

What about a disected proper pollard head, got one of them, a pic perhaps?

 

[treeseer]

Pollarding is pretty rare here, but good idea. I can ask folks in Germany about that.

TCI magazine is at http://www.tcia.org/PDFs/TCI_Mag_June_07.pdf

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I've seen some English antiques with pollard head veneers. Very pretty wood. Very very old pollards too.

I'd like to see the follow up work on the storm pruning, comparisons with tree health with collar cuts vs. nodal. Does my intuitive response of leaving limbs on large trees pan out.

Article on long term effect of gaff pruning, even if it is a short photo essay. I can remember working with you and seeing cankers from coalescing wounds on trees damaged in the hurricane a few years before the big ice storm.

Something on stem failure ascociated with large wounds from limb removal.

Coalescing wounds from several close branches being removed at once.