A stump that wont die

[Paul Cleaver]

9 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

 In fact, how does a pollard survive?

It survives because it has stored energy that will be used to produce branches and leaves again

[felixthelogchopper]

When I saw this thread title I thought Mr Bolam had overdone the Viagra.

[struie]

14 hours ago, Stubby said:

This .  Just let it carry on . Interesting just to study it from time to time .

agree wi that stubby,wonder what it will look like a few years on. probably like us, gnarled n bent.ha.

[monkeybusiness]

Historically I’ve experienced 2 issues of trees apparently having root grafts with neighbouring same-species trees. Poisoning a beech stump (with Glyphosate) killed off an otherwise healthy neighbour, and the same issue arose when some poplar stumps were treated in a plantation.

 

[Mick Dempsey]

16 hours ago, struie said:

why kill it,it looks brilliant.

Pretty sure he’s joking.

[openspaceman]

44 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Historically I’ve experienced 2 issues of trees apparently having root grafts with neighbouring same-species trees. Poisoning a beech stump (with Glyphosate) killed off an otherwise healthy neighbour, and the same issue arose when some poplar stumps were treated in a plantation.

It's interesting and  and something to be wary about when using systemic herbicides.

 

I doubt the myccorhyzal transport implied in the animation Kevin posted extends to moving herbicide, I also wonder how they researched this phenomenon.

 

I have posted in the past a picture of a ring barked young scots pine that  carried on growing above the lost bark until it managed to callus over the wound and carry on as normal. In this case it was a planting of beech over a former heathland site, the scots pine was self seeded and by year 12 was towering over the beech. The plan was to ringbark the selected dominant pine to avoid felling them and damaging the beech. It failed miserably because the neighbouring pine  kept the ringbarked trees going and the new (LA) owner failed to do anything further to keep the beech so it's a predominantly pine woodland now.

 

[Paul Cleaver]

4 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

 

 

I have posted in the past a picture of a ring barked young scots pine that  carried on growing above the lost bark until it managed to callus over the wound and carry on as normal. In this case it was a planting of beech over a former heathland site, the scots pine was self seeded and by year 12 was towering over the beech. The plan was to ringbark the selected dominant pine to avoid felling them and damaging the beech. It failed miserably because the neighbouring pine  kept the ringbarked trees going and the new (LA) owner failed to do anything further to keep the beech so it's a predominantly pine woodland now.

 

If the void between the undamaged bark is small enough  and the tree has the vitality to bridge the gap in the next growing season then its possible - lucky the trees were young.

[openspaceman]

57 minutes ago, Paul Cleaver said:

If the void between the undamaged bark is small enough  and the tree has the vitality to bridge the gap in the next growing season then its possible - lucky the trees were young.

I can assure you the chainsaw cuts were deep and not bridged in the first few seasons, when they were bridged the new growth cam from above.

[Paul Cleaver]

29 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

I can assure you the chainsaw cuts were deep and not bridged in the first few seasons, when they were bridged the new growth cam from above.

Wow - Its the water uptake that's the main issue - bet a broadleaf wouldn't have survived