Tony Croft aka hamadryad

easy K deusta

I know some people might say this was pruned to death! lol

great shadow lith! loving the pleach, awsome demonstration of what can be done WITH PRUNING! lol your boys are growing up rapid fella!

one looks like a forming hericium but is a forming myxo, probaly candida or entiridium

Nice!

cool!

I am starting to realise the monumental task that is bringing all those working in arboriculture to a common thinking, one "gang" wants to stop pruning and favours the fell and replace option, another gang says prune, one gang says decay is demonic, another delightful. the truth lies somewhere betwixt the two extremes and something I try so hard and in vain to achieve, for one without the other is not truth. Trees and fungi are one organism, from mycorhizea to principal decay fungi, the tree is not healthy because it has no fungi, a tree is not beautifull because it is pristine. a tree is a joy to behold for it is much more than just a tree, it is a flow form of great power and presence with a capacity for more inclusions of life than any other organism on earth. There are many so called "experts" in my field who seem to be of the illusion that decay can be avoided, and that once decay begins the tree is no longer "healthy" this is a great lie, and one you must all avoid and revolt against.

just winding it up:biggrin:

lol:lol: Forestry is old mans stuff,

I do sincerely hope no one wants this simply because they have already read it and have it all down pat! otherwise get off your butts!

I have no idea what your talking about, so I will have to buy it and recieve an education!

we have to take account of a trees genetics/biology too, all trees have a rough age limit and an ultimate size.

oh but THEY WILL!

tachyon is too soft for it i found today, and its going to take some getting used to, cant use it left handed, disadvantage.

what did you get andy?

No not shear, just normal maturation proscess, as the ripe wood region increases in size it gets closer to the surface and the active root channels start to define as they grow faster than the channels between (like butressing) and as with big old beeches often becom a series of channels and a discontinuos banded or columnar group as oposed to a smooth Atypical trunk, the roots fused at the base of this crack are relatively new in tree terms:thumbup: EEEEEJIT!

actually there wasn't, not much growth internally the last guy skinned it out years ago, was going corkey in old age and getting out far enough on many of those branches was pushing my luck. shall return when it leafs up for another shot as its so local to our yard.

to the pith in a narrowing wedge shape, wider at the cabium/bark to a fine point at the pith and no greater.

there where so many HC gano failures in thos jan winds, proof of the detrimental association

she will reduce nicely, was done before and has around 15-20ft of regrowth beyond the old points, so aslong as its done beyond the old point and ont the length of the regrowth she will be dandy! nice tree, obviously coping with a colonisation of either P ostreatus or P squamosa, maybe probably both.

the decay wil be confined to a wedge shape as in the CODIT model, with all the vascular bundle decayed eventualy

where there are fruit bodies, there will be decay directly behind.

this tree was left untouched, and enabled me to witness something quite unique, a species of crane fly removing and appearing to eat maggots from the fruiting bodies as they decayed. these craneflies are not known to eat, so it was unobserved behaviour! cool!

wicked posts guys. Im redundant!