Desease Help..!?

[Oak Oracle]

Looks likes a canker. Probably won't kill the tree if it doesn't girdle the whole trunk.

 

Thanks for that.

I have another horse chestnut I was looking at, it has the same issue but looks a lot worse. The core of the trunk is visible and dead/bad rot. the scars have gone around 3/4 of the trunk.

It is also quite bad on in the crotch and again it covers about 3/4 of the limb.

The crown was not visibly thinned or affected during the summer, however there was a lack of conkers (gutted i couldnt play conkers!) do you think this is related?

[kentjames]

 

(heres the pic)

 

does look canker like to me too

[RobRainford]

If its ash, which it kinda looks like (see twig in picture!) it's Ash Canker (Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. Fraxinii). It's bacterial. Not brilliant for the tree and can cause a weak point but it usually lives with it. I see it a lot on younger trees.

[Wolfie]

Thanks for that.

I have another horse chestnut I was looking at, it has the same issue but looks a lot worse. The core of the trunk is visible and dead/bad rot. the scars have gone around 3/4 of the trunk.

It is also quite bad on in the crotch and again it covers about 3/4 of the limb.

The crown was not visibly thinned or affected during the summer, however there was a lack of conkers (gutted i couldnt play conkers!) do you think this is related?

 

That is a form of canker - commonly called Bleeding Canker and that one is more serious. Lots of it about and it generally does kill the tree although it does sometimes take many years.

[RobRainford]

That is a form of canker - commonly called Bleeding Canker and that one is more serious. Lots of it about and it generally does kill the tree although it does sometimes take many years.

 

That doesn't look like bleeding canker to me. It's not bleeding and I don't know it to cause such a rough canker, just cracks the bark and kills the cambium.

[Wolfie]

That doesn't look like bleeding canker to me. It's not bleeding and I don't know it to cause such a rough canker, just cracks the bark and kills the cambium.

 

Crossed wires Rob, I was referring to post 11.

[Oak Oracle]

Thanks for all your replies, very helpful as i have been trying to find out for a while now.

The horse chestnut is much worse than that, I havent got any pictures but will get some tomorrow.

Going off my very basic description of the chestnut do you think it gonna need to be removed? that is a last resort by all means but im concerned about the stability of it.

[Oak Oracle]

 

(heres the pic)

 

does look canker like to me too

 

Thanks for getting that on here, how do you make it display on the forum?

[Wolfie]

Thanks for all your replies, very helpful as i have been trying to find out for a while now.

The horse chestnut is much worse than that, I havent got any pictures but will get some tomorrow.

Going off my very basic description of the chestnut do you think it gonna need to be removed? that is a last resort by all means but im concerned about the stability of it.

 

That would all depend on how bad the rot in the trunk is. If it's not too bad and you say the crown is heathy hen I would leave be until you see the crown deteriorating.

[Oak Oracle]

That would all depend on how bad the rot in the trunk is. If it's not too bad and you say the crown is heathy hen I would leave be until you see the crown deteriorating.

 

Ill keep an eye on it. Thanks!