RobArb

I'm taping that and shall watch it as a series in one:biggrin: Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

Film 4 now:thumbup: Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

nope, maybe for a contractor, but on the books? why on earth did you leave josh:001_rolleyes: Nice work if you can get it:thumbup:! Hows Sweden anyway compared to here?

An exert from some information found by a fellow student FYI TDA 147 Gales of January, 2012 The storm force winds across Britain in early January 2012, caused widespread disruption to power supplies and transport. Fallen and broken trees blocked roads, caused damage to buildings and disrupted power supplies in parts of Britain. In the south east there were fatalities among travellers. We have received two reports of trees with Meripilus giganteus, that were scheduled for felling, being uprooted by these strong winds. The Tree Advice Trust has an ongoing investigation into the effects of Meripilus on the development of decay within trees and their stability (TDA 63). This has involved examination of trees known to be infected and that have been felled. The Trust will welcome information of any instances of trees with records of having produced Meripilus giganteus fruit bodies, whether or not failure of the tree occurred. Please send details of the tree species, location (OS map reference and nearest town) and situation i.e. urban (please specify roadside or non-roadside), Woodland, agriculture, parkland or garden (see over for pro-forma reporting). Incidentally, an interesting case was found in West Sussex, where a Beech tree, growing alongside a minor road, was uprooted on 5th January causing disruption to traffic. In the same vicinity two larger Beech trees, that had produced Meripilus fruit bodies for several years, standing on the side of a busy ‘A’ road were felled as a precaution about 8 years ago. So in this case the decision to fell these two trees was probably justified! Brian Greig, Tree Pathologist, AAIS. this should be the proforma Application Form TS 1010.doc

things are going good paul thanks, and I fully understand what your saying and I do agree with the AA recommended contractor scheme, but you can never tell if they are a good employer or not unfortunately. To be honest I hadn't really heard of or looked for the IIP, maybe it should be more advertised or promoted?? Hope things are well with yourself too Cheers:biggrin: Rob Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

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Hi paul, I'm not trying to be funny our difficult in any way shape or form but however "good" the company may be at doing the work doesn't mean that they are a good employer! I for certain, without naming names, would not want to work for at least 2 companies on that list for the north west, regardless of AA approval our not, sure to employment conditions and pay. Does that make sense? Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

Tis the economy, and a balance between being too pricey and not getting the work due to cheaper contractors Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

thought so:biggrin:

i thought it was cool too:thumbup1:

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/13300-meripilus-thread-4.html#post581849 if that doesn't work click the little blue and white arrow next to your name in the quote box in my post

How about this group of Sorbus for having a natter together (there where a lot more similar that i didn't take a pic of, all within a 30m2 area)?

yes i see it now:blush:

BBC iPlayer - The Last Explorers: John Muir

i haven't:confused1:

where was this tree? and did you ever find that third image?

How many hours is that? (per day) Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

There was something mentioned in this one but it won't open?? "The influence of bud length, age of the tree and culture media on androgenesis induction inAesculus carnea Hayne anther culture " Nevena Marinkovié and Ljiljana Radojevié Journal of plant Biotechnology

Understood, knew you needed to see the evidence and not just me saying "honestly":lol: Just trying to dig them out, i've saved them somewhere but got thousands of papers everywhere:blush: From what i recall its something to do with the Cameraria ohridella not liking A. x carnea too:001_cool:

Do you think the tree is called Oliver? Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

The tree's been listening to twist and shout...! Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

Oh look, I've found a way to communicate:biggrin: Tell me what makes you so sure that its a fung doing this and not the fung making a meal of a situation caused by a virus? Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

yup, find me an A. x carnea without proliferations! Your right, neither of us have solid proof as such but current thought as stated, and research is blaiming a virus:001_rolleyes: We shall carry on this discussion/argument tomorrow as my computer is about to die (battery) and i can't be bothered finding the charger:lol:

just to re-iterate in simple terms (so its clear in my head), bud-proliferation FIRST due to virus, cankers and galls caused, fungi follows:biggrin

research is tending towards a virus of some sort, not fung I admit that you do sometimes get bud proliferation (different) on A.hippocastanum but nowhere near as much as on A. x carnea and on its on EVERY A. x carnea. There is a suggestion that this mystery virus is the main cause for this proliferation creating the necrosis in the bark and causing these "cankers" due to the genetic make-up of the cultivar Fungi is an after thought in this case:001_smile: I'm just trying to find the papers now