Advice please

[Big 'Ammer]

Sorry sir, won't happen again!

 

Sounds like something contaminating the ground if its affecting two totally different species?

[skyhuck]

Sorry Sir ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but he started it:001_tongue:

[TREELINE]

Sorry Sir ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,but he started it:001_tongue:

bacterial wetwood can give a yeasty aroma. Found an oak surrounded by hornets recently and it smelt like home brew!

[Andy Collins]

Thank you, at last....... common sense!

[Rebecca Harrison]

Just guessing here but what about some sort of bacterial infection (and please no more thrush jokes!!!) I know some bacterial oozz (how do you spell oozz?) from trees can often smell yeasty.

[Andy Collins]

In the case in question, the wood had dried out quite rapidly, no sap at all in the conifer, no signs of "oozing", just died. Of course the roots may have had more signs, but none obvious. All the shrubs, and the conifer had died this year. Originally I put the conifer death down to the virus thats killing them, but this doesnt explain the viburnums dieing too.

[David oakman]

Bacterial wetwood when i started on this estate they used to leave tree guards on till they split but this causes bacterial wetwood and the bark is soft as this hardens gases build behind the bark and explodes leaving a wound.

[Gareth86]

Sounds like it could be a type of decaying fungus, viburnum are susceptible to honey fungus so keep an eye out for any honey coloured fungal growths around the stump over the next couple of months.

[daltontrees]

There can't be many fungi and bacteria that can act quickly and equally effectively to kill conifers AND broadleaves. Even the honey funguses have a couple of species that specialise in one or the other.

 

Yeasty smell suggests a fungus, but it might not be the fungus that killed the trees anad shrubs. Yeast is more like a mould than a mushroom. Could be feeding on dead material.

[daltontrees]

The only common mould i can find for on Viburnum is Botrytis cinerea. Apparently not severe enough to kill quickly.

 

Maybe be to do with the site. I had a customer last year nearly lost a Holly, Cotoneaster and Box. Turned out the site was getting flooded by sopapy water from neighbour's blocked and burst bathroom drain.