Eucalyptus reduction before/after

[S.slater]

Recent reduction over a car port and house.

[Marc Lewis]

Good job, gums are often awkward to reduce due to lack of growth points.

[Stubby]

Nice work there bud .

[Dog Tag]

Good job, gums are often awkward to reduce due to lack of growth points.

 

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[mistahbenn]

Well done lad.

[S.slater]

Cheers guys!

[Kveldssanger]

Looks good. Saw one round where I work on Thursday. It looked woeful. Poor thing lost all of its beauty with that reduction. At least they didn't muck the Lombardies next to it; that'd really have been a feat, if they had.

[Jesse]

Not wishing to take anything away from you fella, that was a lot of work for what will be a very , very short gain, from every pruning cut five or six new very vigorous shoots will develop, in the first year each competing new shoot could put as much as 1m regrowth on. Well done for creeping around the crown and reaching those points, but for me its something i would never recommend on a Gum.

[Steve Bullman]

Not wishing to take anything away from you fella, that was a lot of work for what will be a very , very short gain, from every pruning cut five or six new very vigorous shoots will develop, in the first year each competing new shoot could put as much as 1m regrowth on. Well done for creeping around the crown and reaching those points, but for me its something i would never recommend on a Gum.

 

agreed, good work all the same

[S.slater]

I agree, if you look closely at the after picture you can see it had been reduced really hard a few years ago, so the tree sprouted like mad! The reduction was more to keep it under control and reduce risk of weighted limbs near the house and parking area.