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  1. Gary Prentice
    The FC have asked me to send some shoot samples after I reported something online. What's the the preferred method? Plastic box, Jiffy bag etc
  2. Gary Prentice
    HB and bubble wrap Wonder what it is about the human psyche?
  3. Gary Prentice
    Terrific, love it.
  4. Gary Prentice
    I think it's a remarkably well adapted plant, the seed dispersal method keeps me amused for ages:biggrin: Begrudgingly, I'm forced to agree it's a nuisance and too invasive.
  5. Gary Prentice
    Problem with crown pruning is there's a lot of energy stored there and the lost foliage would be producing to aid new root growth. I not sure pruning is necessary or beneficial, from what I remember reading.
  6. Gary Prentice
    It's not rocket science, there's an article in march's Arb journal. Best if you can prepare them for moving in advance though.
  7. Gary Prentice
    I know someone who did that, attached the rope to the basket of a little mewp and bent it. Attached it to the landie and pulled the chimney stack down.
  8. Gary Prentice
    Himalayan balsam. It will become a nuisance but pulls up easy, best before it disperses its seed.
  9. Gary Prentice
    At the end of the day you're there to provide options, not decisions. Give them all the information , the pros and cons of each option, to reach a decision. They may ask what you would do or what you recommend, but ultimately they hold the purse strings.
  10. Gary Prentice
    You have my deepest sympathy, having had chemo for the last six months months I appreciate the side affects. All I can suggest is take heed of your body, don't try to over exert yourself- you'll pay for it later, rest when you need to. The affects pass, but maybe not as soon as you think they will. I wish you luck.
  11. Gary Prentice
    Files. Sharp saws a so much quicker:sneaky2:
  12. Gary Prentice
    Our time is insignificant, few realise it but mankind still does its best to impact on everything.
  13. Gary Prentice
    An unanswerable question but, at what degree of reduction does the loss of canopy start to reduce the energy system and defences, hastening the fungal colonisation? Just pondering like.
  14. Gary Prentice
    I seem to remember that there can be a fair difference between species. Some elms had 10+ rings of active, live rings which I think accounted for differences in susceptibility to DED. You may have to go deeper than you think.
  15. Gary Prentice
    Nothing spectacular, came across early yesterday.
  16. Gary Prentice
    I can't be certain from the photo, but is the dust fungal spores?
  17. Gary Prentice
    The universal 'cure all'. There's some interesting reading on a site linked to Cancer Research UK that I was looking at this morning. I'll try and post a link later. It seems to me that it's still going to be another ten years before the medical profession accept or come to terms with this. It's still so much in the test tube and mice stage of research. I've tried to discuss the possible benefits with an oncology consultant who thought I meant smoking it:biggrin:
  18. Gary Prentice
    Nothing like a good argument to liven a thread up:lol:
  19. Gary Prentice
    Think so too
  20. Gary Prentice
    Get a mewp
  21. Gary Prentice
    A little note on guttation, I can't remember where it came from - you may have even posted it yourself:biggrin: mushroom-weepLR.pdf
  22. Gary Prentice
    Off the top of my head and without revising, I think KD operates in two modes of decay, which allows it to circumvent the barriers of cell walls. This makes it in Matthecks words 'a nasty little rotter'. From experience I imagine the decline is due to hydraulic dysfunction due to decay. The more decline the more the fungus has colonised. I've felled a few sycs with barely any live foliage which were almost completely decayed (to some degree) across the basal cross section.
  23. Gary Prentice
    Looks like kretzchmaris deusta. Normally ends in a brittle, ceramic type fracture. Not good as a rule.
  24. Gary Prentice
    Also noted in Matthecks books
  25. Gary Prentice
    Is that a new event at the APF?

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