Thanks brnchbrkr, but I was kinda looking for it in JPS's words, I have seen it (looked at the pics on the Link), was thinking it was Anthracnose and it may still be. Oaks have been taken it from all sides here, lots of Blight, Anthracnose or Tubakia, Scales on the Pin Oaks is the worst I have ever seen. Have a client who is loosing Oaks every year, even trenched the roots to prevent spread, think it was a little too late, not to mention uprooting from all the rain, which brings me to this conclusion. It is the weather that is helping all of this, with it raining HARD every couple of days and the dew point above 70, heat index above 100,these are perfect conditions for all of these Oak ailments, not that they are only effecting the Oaks, but they seem to be getting hit the hardest. Am I wrong?
Something else I have been noticing, that I have a Q about. This year, it seems every time I work on a Oak, the wood has MASSIVE amounts of Iron spots in the wood, the big blueish black spots int the heartwood, Have never seen so much of it,one of them was 20" in dia (the spot). They all have been dead when I first see them, so I cant tell what the tree was like before. Is there a connection between the weather and the iron grabbing a hold of the Tannin? And if it a tree produces a bunch of tannin, does that effect the amount of Iron the tree gets?
Does not help when one of the other CA's in the area is constantly pruning Oaks, seen him yesterday working on a Bur.
