Guy Meilleur
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I don't have many live oaks here, but willow oaks and water oaks etc. have interior sprouts that need to be dealt with. The best way is to take 1/3 at a time, picking the ones that are weakest, or worse-looking than the others. That includes most of the sprouts on scaffolds out to the first fork.
It's nuts imo to polarize this issue. Not every sprout is essential; why pick such a trivial battle to fight? Customers accept compromises between aesthetics and biology if that's communicated reasonably. If you think the worst of the tree owner's goals and prejudge them instead of working with them, you don't belong in their tree.
Communicating and compromising is easy if you take the time to hear the tree owner's goals, then find a way to satisfy them with the least change to the tree's physiology.
rjs if 90% of the pruning you do is bad for the tree, why do it?
Where do you come up with this data?
It'd be better to go flip burgers or something, wouldn't it?:alien:
It's nuts imo to polarize this issue. Not every sprout is essential; why pick such a trivial battle to fight? Customers accept compromises between aesthetics and biology if that's communicated reasonably. If you think the worst of the tree owner's goals and prejudge them instead of working with them, you don't belong in their tree.
Communicating and compromising is easy if you take the time to hear the tree owner's goals, then find a way to satisfy them with the least change to the tree's physiology.
rjs if 90% of the pruning you do is bad for the tree, why do it?
Where do you come up with this data?
It'd be better to go flip burgers or something, wouldn't it?:alien: