Is Elm making a comeback or is it just a fairytale?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Love everything about elm - tree form is imo beautiful when mature (er, not often then!), awesome firewood, nice to work with. Be great to have them back

[Stereo]

I think you should fell it young. My understanding is that if the disease gets right into the root it can kill it. Fell it before it starts to show and the roots will sucker up again. Bit like coppicing I suppose. Keep the root alive.

 

As has been said, amazing firewood.

[face cord]

Shame you can't buy reistant ones at a resonable price, some have being developed:

 

Dutch elm disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

In the UK, clones from one of the elms that have so far survived in an area of high infectivity are now available commercially. Mr Paul King of King&Co The Tree Nursery took cuttings from an elm, thought to be nearly 200 years old, located in Essex (probably Ulmus minor subsp. minor, or a local hybrid), in 1990. Having potted the cuttings and found that the trees had indeed a high level of resistance to DED, Mr King then cultivated these cuttings via micro-propagation and now has over 2000 resistant trees for sale to the general public at around 10 foot tall.

 

Wonder if the earliest ones from 1990 are still ok?

 

Says high lvl of resitance...

 

They are very expensive

[treedom]

Do the beetles wait for height or is it maturity?

 

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[HCR]

Do the beetles wait for height or is it maturity?

 

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Diameter, I think, correlates positively with host selection.

[Mycoman]

It only really struck me recently how many elms are about, but now they grow more as hedges. They're great for logs - don't need to split them - and my pigs will eat elm leaves in preference to almost anything else.

 

I presume it's possible to dig up suckers to transplant?

[tree monkey]

so does the beetle live on anything else?

[David Goss]

so does the beetle live on anything else?

 

I guess that's the key to stopping it. If the beetle dies out then it won't attack any more elms. I figure that's how the cycles come about as well because once all the beetles victims are gone it will have to move on or die out. Someone in the know about this beetle can jump in now

[kev7937]

I guess that's the key to stopping it. If the beetle dies out then it won't attack any more elms. I figure that's how the cycles come about as well because once all the beetles victims are gone it will have to move on or die out. Someone in the know about this beetle can jump in now

 

Thats the thing though, every year elms die then they sucker then they get to x height then the beetles feed on them and infect them because they ate infected elms for brekkie.

 

I think so anyway, just hope someone more knowledgeable doesn't come along and shoot me down, call me a halfwit and be generally rude about the whole business:001_smile:

[David Goss]

Thats the thing though, every year elms die then they sucker then they get to x height then the beetles feed on them and infect them because they ate infected elms for brekkie.

 

I think so anyway, just hope someone more knowledgeable doesn't come along and shoot me down, call me a halfwit and be generally rude about the whole business:001_smile:

 

if someone laughs at you for having your own ideas then they are the halfwits. I find most times the so called experts are only guessing themselves and some of them can be complete halfwits!! best to keep your own views and believe others only when there is solid proof that you understand perfectly.

Saying that though i could be a halfwit too:001_tt2: