Mulching trees with root diseases

[MattyF]

I really would not trust a beach with meripilus..make an interesting case study though..gone down the light thin dead wood and tip reduction...tried it and 2- 15 years later that tree will still blow over maybe evan looking perfectly healthy....

[Bundle 2]

Its interesting to speculate as to the real condition of the root system .....Lonsdale contests that by the time you see fruiting bodies there is in all liklihood little or no root left.....IMO this would not seem to be borne out by the longevity of so many affected specimens??

[David Humphries]

I really would not trust a beach with meripilus..make an interesting case study though..gone down the light thin dead wood and tip reduction...tried it and 2- 15 years later that tree will still blow over maybe evan looking perfectly healthy....

 

If we go for the spading, then I'll post some pictures of the condition of the roots.

Keep it tuned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bundle 2]

Believe it or not Marc i'd say they sell more fells because they're easy to sell, a firm is more likely to loose out financialy on TD's than on trims and thins.

 

Figure this does little to galvanise credible evidence as to pathogen progress an "real " time as it affects beech...shame although I understand why it may have happened!!>?

[David Humphries]

Steve,

 

I know you said you didn't get this job, but I'm wondering if you know if the two beeches are still in the garden and what works were ever carried out, if at all?

 

Are they local?

 

 

 

 

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[treeseer]

Interesting to read Fungal Strategies p. 112, then read the posts here.

[Steve Bullman]

Steve,

 

I know you said you didn't get this job, but I'm wondering if you know if the two beeches are still in the garden and what works were ever carried out, if at all?

 

Are they local?

 

 

 

 

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No idea, I never got that job if i'm recalling the right job....this threads quite old It was over Yoxford way I believe

[David Humphries]

Just a shot in the dark.

 

Would be very interesting to know the outcome.

 

 

Like the idea of resurrecting old threads like these, for reasons like Guy has alluded to.

 

 

Any way you could set a rating system on interesting old threads and have them automatically bumped in a 'historic arbtalk thread' section?

 

 

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