Kretzschmaria - infected tree management ?

[Gary Prentice]

I'm lacking understanding about removing loads of energy producing foliage - to reduce loading, then expecting the tree to have energy to both grow and defend itself against the pathogen.

[johnanderton]

I thought either really investigate the decay then decide either take down or just monitor ? It's got a fair crown in it but these older sycamore lack decent growth points to reduce to in a lot of limbs .. It would block all the road no matter how much you reduced it !!!

[MATTMOSS]

I'm lacking understanding about removing loads of energy producing foliage - to reduce loading, then expecting the tree to have energy to both grow and defend itself against the pathogen.

 

Forget the health and long term damage to the tree and think about reducing the risks in the short term.

[detritus21]

I would argue that removal is your only option. Kretz is unpredictable if the targets weren't there then retain but given the target remove. That I my thought anyway

[Gary Prentice]

Forget the health and long term damage to the tree and think about reducing the risks in the short term.

 

Just a philosophical question, but should we be thinking more in tree time than human time.

 

Would it be wiser, rather than keeping a much reduced tree for a few more years, to fell and replace and have something getting established within that period?

[Mountain man]

Just a philosophical question, but should we be thinking more in tree time than human time.

 

Would it be wiser, rather than keeping a much reduced tree for a few more years, to fell and replace and have something getting established within that period?

 

Imo Yes.

[Gary Prentice]

Imo Yes.

 

We've some common ground.

 

Sometimes I think there is too short a view on tree cover management, we're dealing with something that lives for hundreds of years but approach it with a 'here and now' mentality.

 

We wouldn't have what we have today without the foresight of the planners and landscape architects of the past, I wonder what we are actually going to leave for the future? If architecture is anything to go by, not much.

[treeseer]

"I'm lacking understanding about removing loads of energy producing foliage - to reduce loading, then expecting the tree to have energy to both grow and defend itself against the pathogen."

 

Shift your focus from quantity removed (irrelevant) to quality retained (all that matters.)

Much foliage is redundant and unproductive. When leaves shade leaves that shade leaves etc., removing some is beneficial.

It all requires water for them all to stay alive.

CODIT is nourished by resources beyond our ken.

 

How much sunlight can be harvested, with minimal strain on the circulatory system, is the question.

[johnanderton]

Another tree with Kretzschmaria , this time a lime wind blown into a sycamore ,

[David Humphries]

Another tree with Kretzschmaria , this time a lime wind blown into a sycamore , [ATTACH]194296[/ATTACH][ATTACH]194297[/ATTACH][ATTACH]194298[/ATTACH]

 

......knife through butter

 

 

good shots

 

 

Lime that we winched over that was heavily colonised with Kretzschmaria

 

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