An Avocado I had to reduce

[treedude]

 

[Drella]

Yikes!

 

Can't really see your cuts except the very top center. And from my chair, I still don't know if that's a correct thing to do...

 

I still can't understand why someone would want this done to a tree.. Ornamentals, yes. But not trees.

 

Does this even keep it reduced for very long?

 

Does it then merit weakened branching after it grows a few years?

 

BTW: this is not an attack against your workmanship,, only the practice of reducing larger trees...

[MasterBlaster]

Why did you "have to" reduce it? What was it doing wrong?

[Drella]

And without trying to add insult to injury, the tree now looks to be about 2/3 defoliated.

[MasterBlaster]

At least "Coronet Cuts' or weren't used... I hope!

[David Humphries]

  MasterBlaster said:

At least "Coronet Cuts' or weren't used... I hope!

 

 

 

Is your keyboard stuck, MB ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[rbtree]

  Drella said:

And without trying to add insult to injury, the tree now looks to be about 2/3 defoliated.

 

or more....75%? We're all wondering why this needed to be done....

[Dean Lofthouse]

  rbtree said:

or more....75%? We're all wondering why this needed to be done....

 

It'll be one of those "to the customers Spec" jobs

 

...and the customer will be chuffed to bits with the end result, lets loads more light in!

[skyhuck]

I would really like to see some pic's of some of these large tree reductions a few years down the line.

Apart from Beech, I can't really see it having a long term effect on the trees size.

[Lee Winger]

  MasterBlaster said:

At least "Coronet Cuts' or weren't used... I hope!

 

Nothing wrong with coronet cuts in the right enviroment, you got to remember the UK is mere blip compared to the size of the USA, very few woods left here, we need to artificialy create wildlife habitats.

 

You could say we've buggerd our little island up