Kretzschmaria on Lime?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Personaly this trees had its day!

 

you could coppice it, or pollard at the union.

[woodyguy]

I've seen this sort of picture quite frequently on limes. Seems to often start with squirrel damage to bark. Looks pretty terminal.

[Marula]

Personaly this trees had its day!

 

you could coppice it, or pollard at the union.

 

 

👍 pretty much the only decent option if the tree needs to stay.

[treeseer]

Clean and cauterize the lesions

Nourish roots to help sealing

Then Give it a year or 2

What looks terminal about it?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Clean and cauterize the lesions

Nourish roots to help sealing

Then Give it a year or 2

What looks terminal about it?

 

cauterize the lesions, lol will you give over on that:lol:

[RobRainford]

cauterize the lesions, lol will you give over on that:lol:

 

 

I found the best way is to cut that section out, split it, dry it, then put it on the boiler

[Razzle]

If there is evidence of Pseudomonas Syringae Bleeding Canker which is more often associated with Horse Chestnuts (but not exclusively) then scientific trials have proven that excising the lesions with a Dremmel style tool and then applying a bark and scaffold drench containing Phosphites can have significantly beneficial effects as they have been shown to help trigger the trees own defence system.

When Phytophthora is suspected the use of an ELISA test kit on affected tissue (lesion or root) will help confirm.

[woodyguy]

If this was your tree, would you spend hundreds of pounds on coating it in phosphites only to have to cut it down within a year? This isn't a small fruit tree (or small eucalyptus like in the research) which can be easily treated. This is a big tree that is nearly dead. I'd cut it down asap. Do you have examples of trees of this size and decay recovering with phosphites?

[Marula]

If there is evidence of Pseudomonas Syringae Bleeding Canker which is more often associated with Horse Chestnuts (but not exclusively) then scientific trials have proven that excising the lesions with a Dremmel style tool and then applying a bark and scaffold drench containing Phosphites can have significantly beneficial effects as they have been shown to help trigger the trees own defence system.

When Phytophthora is suspected the use of an ELISA test kit on affected tissue (lesion or root) will help confirm.

 

 

Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi is associated with horse chestnut, Pseudomonas syringae has many pathovars and species which relate to a specific host. It can be overlooked on other species due to secondary infection or less obvious symptoms unlike the clearly marked black staines or "burst" bark when aesculus is infected. This tree is not worth the dosh on trying to save it, although I don't think you were recommending that just providing some interesting information for us tree nuts.

[treeseer]

Just took another look at that last pic--is that the other side? The one trunk is looking rather poorly from that incomplete view.

 

I couldn't find 'give on' in the dictionary of british slang but you might look into heat applications as practiced by fruit growers for millennia before scoffing so. Cauterising and drenching might take an hour--you guys really charge that much?

 

All we can do is describe reasonable options. Clients decide.