K-K-K-K-K-Kretzch

[Fungus]

i did take some Resistograph readings at ground level with corroborated the Picus findings that the extent of the decay decreased the lower I went.

 

Scott,

It is always good to "second opinion" a Picus with a Resistograph reading, but only if there are crusts of K. deusta already present on the outside of the tree.

Never use a Resistograph on a beech, hornbeam or lime you suspect having an infection with the mycelium of K. deusta, because by drilling through the barriers, the tree forms, to keep the mycelium inside and prevent it from invading the cambium, one creates a six lane highway for the mycelium to break out of its "prison" and then speeding up the decomposition and killing process of the tree.

[Fungus]

Documentation of K. deusta fruiting up to 6 metres high on the trunk of a living beech.

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[David Humphries]

Documentation of K. deusta fruiting up to 6 metres high on the trunk of a living beech.

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Do you see that as growing up or down gerrit?

 

 

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[Fungus]

Do you see that as growing up or down

 

In this case up, because the fruiting started about 1 metre above ground level and stretched out to a height of 6 metres within 5 years time, i.e. it further colonized the trunk by one metre a year.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

In this case up, because the fruiting started about 1 metre above ground level and stretched out to a height of 6 metres within 5 years time, i.e. it further colonized the trunk by one metre a year.

 

as ground dweller and lover of the damp I agree upward development, and its entry here was the lost limb connected to its root causing dysfunction and an entry site. similar happens from top down i feel with the A. mesenterica.

 

I need to know more about this limb structure you say is and remains so connected to a specific root gerrit, its certainly opening up some further "insight" for me:001_cool:

[Fungus]

I need to know more about this limb structure you say is and remains so connected to a specific root

 

You mean the direct connection of a specific root with a specific branch, as is found in beech, which "explains" why Fagus can not be heavely pruined or pollarded and why Oudemansiella mucida "walking" outward in in/on a branch is an indicator of Meripilus giganteus, Armillaria species or Xerula radicata being active and also "walking" outward in in/on the corresponding root ?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You mean the direct connection of a specific root with a specific branch, as is found in beech, which "explains" why Fagus can not be heavely pruined or pollarded and why Oudemansiella mucida "walking" outward in in/on a branch is an indicator of Meripilus giganteus, Armillaria species or Xerula radicata being active and also "walking" outward in in/on the corresponding root ?

 

exactly what I mean.

 

Though beech CAN be done hard with specific pruning cuts, they must be cut to a point that allows retention of growth points on opposing sides of heavier volume cuts to maintain vascular connection and flow.

 

Reducing big beech with issues is one of my skill sets, trust me gerrit, it can be done, I had this conversation with Claus too:thumbup1:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

First tree a staged heavy reduction, this is the second reduction.

 

second tree managing G.pfiefferi in high target zone.

 

[sloth]

With Kretzschmaria the stone like fracture is often less than a metre from ground level, just below the neutral fibre zone or (hotspot)

 

Never heard the hotspot referred to as the neutral fibre zone; why 'neutral' fibre, care to enlighten me? Please, thank you

[Fungus]

Though beech CAN be done hard with specific pruning cuts, they must be cut to a point that allows retention of growth points on opposing sides of heavier volume cuts to maintain vascular connection and flow. Reducing big beech with issues is one of my skill sets, trust me, it can be done, I had this conversation with Claus too:thumbup1:

 

Claus being the well respected and highly regarded collegue, who knows all there is to know of VTA and biomechanics , but (10 years ago : so when was this conversation ?) could not tell a beech from a hornbeam or an Acer from a Platanus, let alone distinguish a Ganoderma from a Phellinus and had or (still) hasn't got a clue of ectomycorrhizal macrofungi and the role they play in TSSE's ?

I'm not referring to reducing big beeches "with issues", which are already under attack of Ganoderma's or Meripilus, but to beeches in good to perfect condition being reduced, because of too much shade in gardens or overgrowing the crowns of other trees standing close by.

And the principle also works the other way around. I can show you lots of old beeches, of which major roots were cut off because of road or sewer works, with detrimental effects to or dying of the corresponding branches in the crown and up tempo colonizing of the damaged roots by Meripilus or Armillaria.

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