Dieback recovery

[peds]

Yeah, but it looked just like that three years ago, worse at two years, and a sneeze away from dead last year.

 

I guess we'll have to check back in a year or so and see how she's doing? 

 

On the topic of recovery, perhaps as a wasted effort... anyone had any success on the seaweed and biochar approach?

[Paul in the woods]

I'm mainly interested in the ash I have in my woodland but most of our trees were very late to come into leaf this year. Quite a few seem to be worse off than last year and I've not noticed any improvements. (On the bright side there are a few that seem unaffected, but thousands others gradually dying).

 

What I have seen this year is trees with a good number of fresh leaves and shoots fail at the base. Previous years it's only been the dead trees than have fallen.

[AHPP]

Ash dieback diagnosis is a lot of knee-jerking. We've only been seriously watching it for the last five years. We've had a bit of weird weather in that time. Could easily have been something to do with that. Or not. Can't say for sure. Appraise after a hundred years maybe. 

[5thelement]

3 hours ago, AHPP said:

Ash dieback diagnosis is a lot of knee-jerking. We've only been seriously watching it for the last five years. We've had a bit of weird weather in that time. Could easily have been something to do with that. Or not. Can't say for sure. Appraise after a hundred years maybe. 

This is correct, every tree that looks a bit sparse = ADB, wrong.

It’s pretty easy to confirm that it has or hasn’t got it. 
 

[5thelement]

18 hours ago, peds said:

 

And the others? Not the only one I've seen.

I don't know, perhaps I'm just being optimistic, and there are definitely thousands of skeleton trees visible all over the place right now, but maybe the projected 95% fatality rate will end up a bit lower. 80? 75? Every little helps.

What’s your reasoning for UK trees to be less affected than the rest of Europes Ash, stiff upper lip?

[sime42]

Brexit.

We've stopped all them dirty foreign tree deseases coming over the channel now.

[peds]

On 05/06/2024 at 17:36, 5thelement said:

What’s your reasoning for UK trees to be less affected than the rest of Europes Ash, stiff upper lip?

 

I've made no such suggestion, I haven't seen an ash in the UK since December. My observations have been made from deep behind the borders of the EU.

I would assume, if my hopes on this matter have any kind of truth behind them, that it's a worldwide thing, and that the slight inclination towards resistance and recovery is more likely to occur in self-seeded local varieties of tree, rather than those from forestry nurseries in Holland or wherever. 

 

As I say... maybe I'm imagining things, but I'm going to keep watching with my fingers crossed for the next few years. 

[5thelement]

21 hours ago, peds said:

 

I've made no such suggestion, I haven't seen an ash in the UK since December. My observations have been made from deep behind the borders of the EU.

I would assume, if my hopes on this matter have any kind of truth behind them, that it's a worldwide thing, and that the slight inclination towards resistance and recovery is more likely to occur in self-seeded local varieties of tree, rather than those from forestry nurseries in Holland or wherever. 

 

As I say... maybe I'm imagining things, but I'm going to keep watching with my fingers crossed for the next few years. 

Have you actually confirmed ADB in any of the trees you have noticed, or is it just an assumption?

[Anno]

My borough is chocker, full of ADB and we are struggling to deal with it, as are all our local councils, over the last 10 years i have seen it progress its way North via travelling on roads and rail.

This place is really good value, not only do we have fighting in most threads, we now have members of Arb's Flat Earth Society fully in the swing, this Forum has become an absolute cess pit.

[peds]

I thought this was quite a mundane thread so far, to be honest. Which bits are you taking issue with?