The client psychology thread

[Mick Dempsey]

6 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

Follow up. I've identified it as Prunus cerasifera. General prunus advice is prune in mid summer, until the end of August. We're very nearly there. I think the seasons are late and now would be fine but I could instead tell him to wait until next June. That hits the perfect middle of the pruning season and shows him I'll put his tree's health above my desire for the job now. Or would it make me look like a fanny and he'll just get someone else to do it next week?

Hes not going to wait till next year!
Get on with it.

[Dan Maynard]

Late summer is after fruiting, and to avoid damp conditions in autumn as silver leaf likes the damp. I always say "well the books will tell you..... " and then go on to say mostly we ignore that and do trees whenever we get to them else we'd be hungry 6 months of the year.

 

In any case I'm not sure that there is actually that much risk of silver leaf in the average garden, it's more of a stone fruit orchard problem. The spores are released from fruiting bodies on dead wood, so gardens being tidy there isn't much about.

 

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