Air Spade

[Birdy]

Im the guy running the crew tophopper is talking about, we are primarily dealing with SGR's and where do do root pruning we will decompact and compost a ring. Size of your desire. Bar oil is in my veins too many people better at cutting than me.

http://www.rainbowtreecare.com/tree-knowledge/health-maintenance/root-enhancement-system©/

 

[sotc]

Thank you birdy, just got the spade in the other day. Mind expounding on how you "customize" a compost blend? What makes you add one thing to this tree and and another to the other tree?

 

[Birdy]

Well, the blend is a specific recipe that our doctor put together, we customise it into three categories. POM1 is straight blend almost a booster, POM2 has hardwood mulch mixed in to increase the carbon to nitrogen ratio to create more of a maintenance formula, then POM3 is a higher ratio still of mulch to blend restricting nutrient uptake and acting almost like a growth regulator.

So 1 is generally for young or stressed trees 2 is for well established healthy trees and 3 is for mature trees. It is a little more prescripitve than this depending on the soil analysis and tree condition etc.

 

[sotc]

Interesting. My focus next year is soils, still quite weak there

 

[NickfromWI]

Someone on the buzz is selling one... http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=294406&an=0&page=0&gonew=1#UNREAD

 

[sotc]

Wow, of course mine just showed up, I got a deal but not that good of a deal!