The Ents make a move

[Danavan]

Do you think this some sort of ongoing argument, or just a clean split:001_smile:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Do you think this some sort of ongoing argument, or just a clean split:001_smile:

 

not an argument, they had a chat and realising thier situation decided to split the light and one goes east the other west:lol:

 

good shot Danavan

[David Humphries]

Do you think this some sort of ongoing argument, or just a clean split:001_smile:

 

Like the reiteration on the rh elbow particularly

 

 

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[Danavan]

The eastern fella looks more determined. Maybe an early bird in their some place:001_smile:

[Danavan]

Like the reiteration on the rh elbow particularly

 

 

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Moving..slow but sure eh:001_smile:

[treeseer]

Q virginiana is good at layering. One can intervene and force it by scraping off bark and pressing into moldy earth, with 2x2 and nails (tho screws would have been better), and a couple years. this one's browsed by the dam deer, otherwise thriving.

 

Soft green strap pulls limb down under tension, without girdling when spiraled.

Edited February 15, 2012 by treeseer

[David Humphries]

Q virginiana is good at layering. One can intervene and force it by scraping off bark and pressing into moldy earth, with 2x2 and nails (tho screws would have been better), and a couple years. this one's browsed by the dam deer, otherwise thriving.

 

Soft green strap pulls limb down under tension, without girdling when spiraled.

 

Interesting Guy,

 

Is this your work ?

 

Did you offer to the client as a way to stabilise an already drooping branch or just as an experiment for interest?

 

 

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[treeseer]

"Is this your work ?

 

I'll take the blame for it.

 

"Did you offer to the client as a way to stabilise an already drooping branch or just as an experiment for interest?"

 

Pro bono work on a public tree, and the limb did not really need stabilizing, so it's an experiment, for personal interest at first. Now that it has succeeded, it's grist for the publishing mill. The case of the Walking Matilda, set in oz, perhaps.

 

Also will share with the U folk fwiw. Layering is an old-school propagation method for fruit like citrus etc. but never heard of it with oak.

 

One unwelcome result: when the layered progeny takes off on its own, the parent branch tends to wither and shed, like an unneeded umbilical cord.

 

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[David Humphries]

One unwelcome result: when the layered progeny takes off on its own, the parent branch tends to wither and shed, like an unneeded umbilical cord. .

Even worse if when in your working aprenticeship, you get asked to sever the attached umbilical cord & blindly obey

 

Guess it didn't do this Vet Sweet chestnut & its layered progeny to much harm

 

 

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[treeseer]

Yes that one seems to be doing well. It's hard to say exactly when that cord should be cut--I've tethered them when risk was an issue but the biology seemed to counsel waiting. One downside to waiting on most trees is getting more rot in the trunk, but premature removal may also cause that.

 

also I'm wondering why that apprentice left the stub...?