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A client showed me a bag of debris pulled off the root of an oak that was wounded when they build some stairs. It had the brittle black shoestrings in it, no conk. Sorry, she tossed it before I got a pic.

 

The root sounds hollow but the trunk does not. What should we do?

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You could try using artificial lighting Guy.

 

Right next to the house's electricity outlets.

 

Halide bulbs inside a teepee tent surrounding the tree's base sure dried the Ganoderma conks on a huge oak here at a local casino.

 

Darkness deprivation will mess with any fungi's ability to reproduce and grow IMO.

 

Be brave mate!

 

Jomoco

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Saproxylic species of Armilaria perhaps, yes, but can't they all morph into parasitic mode?

 

Maybe a tad rash to condem the tree to uneccessary work due to the unknown, of course; diagnosis first.

 

Worth getting an ID on the rhizomorphs first, so i take it the best way would be to pull off dead bark from the root and look for more shoestrings. Is ID of these structures in the arbtalk app? I have yet to get that on my new phone. :blushing:

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Saproxylic species of Armilaria perhaps, yes, but can't they all morph into parasitic mode?

 

Maybe a tad rash to condem the tree to uneccessary work due to the unknown, of course; diagnosis first.

 

Worth getting an ID on the rhizomorphs first, so i take it the best way would be to pull off dead bark from the root and look for more shoestrings. Is ID of these structures in the arbtalk app? I have yet to get that on my new phone. :blushing:

 

 

no way to id from the app I'm afraid, perhaps send to a local forestry pathology lab?

 

Not sure how many species of Armillaria you have stateside, but here we have I think 7 species here witgh one of them A tabescens wholly saproxylic as far as i understand

 

 

How do you possibly carry out your consultancy without the app at hand :001_tt2:

 

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You could try using artificial lighting Guy.

 

Right next to the house's electricity outlets.

 

Halide bulbs inside a teepee tent surrounding the tree's base sure dried the Ganoderma conks on a huge oak here at a local casino.

 

Darkness deprivation will mess with any fungi's ability to reproduce and grow IMO.

 

Be brave mate!

 

Jomoco

 

Ha ha ha ha you would have to go a lot further for a lot longer to halt a colony:biggrin:

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Saproxylic species of Armilaria perhaps, yes, but can't they all morph into parasitic mode?

 

Maybe a tad rash to condem the tree to uneccessary work due to the unknown, of course; diagnosis first.

 

Worth getting an ID on the rhizomorphs first, so i take it the best way would be to pull off dead bark from the root and look for more shoestrings. Is ID of these structures in the arbtalk app? I have yet to get that on my new phone. :blushing:

 

one might try altering ones perspective and seeing that the Armillaria is a symptom of the trees state rather than a pathogenic beast on the attack.

 

try alkaline conditions...................................... :001_rolleyes:

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Well, I'll grant that the unexposed portions of the colony won't be affected by the light obviously.

 

However isn't that what air spading around the tree's base does? Expose the infected roots?

 

Don't knock it till yu try it mate!

 

Jomoco

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Well, I'll grant that the unexposed portions of the colony won't be affected by the light obviously.

 

However isn't that what air spading around the tree's base does? Expose the infected roots?

 

Don't knock it till you try it mate!

 

Jomoco

 

I'm pursuing a more realistic, effective and natural alternative:thumbup1:

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So my use of artificial lighting around the base and inside the hollow trunk of a huge 6 ft dia oak(Quercus agrifolia) that dried up every G.lucidum conk exposed to that light both inside and out was unrealistic in your view Tony?

 

What mitigation method used by you can achieve the same or better result?

 

Jomoco

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