What is this

[Rhino1bam]

Anybody tell me what they think this

[David Humphries]

Slime flux - bacterial wet wood

 

 

 

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[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Slime flux - bacterial wet wood

 

 

 

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Significance...looks, n sometimes smells, worse than it is?

 

Thanks David.

Paul

[Rhino1bam]

Significance...looks, n sometimes smells, worse than it is?

 

Thanks David.

Paul

Should it be left alone or treated

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Should it be left alone or treated

 

It may be worth your while investing in some resource.

 

That way you can discover & learn as you go along

 

The AA have recently published a very fine & keenly priced field guide to the most common tree Pests & Disease to be found in the UK.

 

Tree Pests and Diseases - An Arborists' Field Guide

 

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[Rhino1bam]

It may be worth your while investing in some resource.

 

That way you can discover & learn as you go along

 

The AA have recently published a very fine & keenly priced field guide to the most common tree Pests & Disease to be found in the UK.

 

Tree Pests and Diseases - An Arborists' Field Guide

 

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Cheers for that David

 

 

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[treeseer]

Significance...looks, n sometimes smells, worse than it is?

 

Is it slime flux, or frothy flux? In either case, it is well worth the time to clean away dead and infectious tissue. It can and does kill cambium. Is this in beech, and close to the ground? Then likely frothy, a more pathogenic condition than slime flux.

 

Often found in association with poor cultural practices, aka dirt on stem. Attached an early look at frothy flux, before it was called that.

Ooze in the News from TCI Magazine 09-04.pdf

Edited December 21, 2013 by treeseer

[Rhino1bam]

Is it slime flux, or frothy flux? In either case, it is well worth the time to clean away dead and infectious tissue. It can and does kill cambium. Is this in beech, and close to the ground? Then likely frothy, a more pathogenic condition than slime flux.

 

Often found in association with poor cultural practices, aka dirt on stem. Attached an early look at frothy flux, before it was called that.

 

Hi it is in a horsechestnut close to the ground. I read you take all dead out and Wash in a solution of 10 to 1 water and bleach would you agree

[treeseer]

Hi it is in a horsechestnut close to the ground. I read you take all dead out and Wash in a solution of 10 to 1 water and bleach would you agree

 

that being 10 years ago; have gone to half strength hydrogen peroxide, to targeted areas, After rinsing with clear water. Then drenching adjacent bark with phosphite.