Pollarding and Alder yes or no?

[Kveldssanger]

Any time mate.

 

From your link: "Chemical injections have only been on the market for three years. No one knows what the long-term side effects might be," Jia said.

 

^^

 

That's a wonderful point, and always worth bearing in mind. Injections would really be a one-off thing, or at least not something done every year. It can help trees expend less energy on flowering and fruit production and focus it instead on defensive pursuits if they are being attacked by pests or diseases, but for hayfever control it may be too much. Unless, of course, the man gets medical for himself and tree injections are only for one or two years.

 

And I laughed at giving a tree a sex change!

[stihlmadasever]

FFS, its a joke, aller..gin.......Did you miss that or are you just a tough audience???

 

Really tough audience when it comes to smart arses.

[Jake Andrews]

Chemicals are available at sherril.tree but very much doubt you'd get them here. It proves the technology is there but we're very restricted by what we can use over here. Quite frustrating some times.

[peatff]

Thanks for clearing that up,im sure everyone is very impressed

 

I'm impressed anyway, now give order or I'm bringing the turn back on.

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[Thesnarlingbadger]

Thanks for all the input on this one. Turns out the doctors Misdiagnosed the guys symptoms and turns out it's another medical condition. So it's going to be a reduction now. But I will look into to the these alternative methods a little further as it's something I had no idea about.

Thanks again people.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

 

And I laughed at giving a tree a sex change!

 

 

Yeah I found that quite amusing as well haha

[Kveldssanger]

Wow! What was his condition, do you know? Bet the tree's pleased, although it's still getting the prune. Be nice to it (though you will, of course), as alders don't always look good after reductions (bit like birch - reductions just don't suit them - personal opnion).

[Jake Andrews]

Nor do they react well to topping.

[Mick Dempsey]

They react well to topping in the sense that they come back strongly, whether one wants to look at that is often a matter of personal choice, often it's only other tree blokes who react with horror at the sight of a topped tree.

I agree though "out or nothing" is prolly best for Alder

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Wow! What was his condition, do you know? Bet the tree's pleased, although it's still getting the prune. Be nice to it (though you will, of course), as alders don't always look good after reductions (bit like birch - reductions just don't suit them - personal opnion).

 

 

Yeah I'm going to look at it this weekend and will always try and talk people in to what's best for the tree. Turns out it was shingles, hell of a misdiagnosis. But at least they have spotted it. I'll aim for the light reduction and a thin if possible.