Before & After Tree Care

[Bermy]

Yep, better you than the methed up hack job for sure

 

[ruel]

I thought you were going to have to kill it, a little pruning isn't too bad! Looks nice

 

[CurSedVoyce]

My concern is for the larger horizontal limbs failing under load. So I may (or shall I say I am going to attempt) talk her into some support under them. She is at a lower elevation than I but occasionally they can recieive a heavy wet snow load.

 

[Mick!]

Methed up hacks get an unfair press imo.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I wish I had the earlier pictures of this one. Nice little tree that the builder/seller told the new homeowner needed removed. I convinced him other wise.
Then some storm damage right after we talked. Broken tops and a couple of the horizontals. Been a work in progress this one. Retrench from natures fury. But it's coming along. The leaves are looking healthy. Time for some limb spacing
and epicormic pruning. Get the shaded dead out and a couple more storm damages limbs.
First one is before this trip....
Last three afters.
Almost done pruning all his trees now. About to make the rounds again and touch up.

 

[lxskllr]

Nice tree. I like the trunk on that one.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice scaffording too. Its a fun little climb

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Pruned and cabled this tree 4+ years ago. Got to take some pictures of growth, compartmentalization of some of the cuts. I need to take a closer look to see it the bolted limbs are starting to graft.
4 years ago

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Yesterday

 

[gf beranek]

healing up nice.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Indeed Ger.
Told ya, boring like watching paint dry

 

[Mesquite]

Like Watching paint dry on a MASTERPIECE, that you created !!!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Meh. Mother nature created it.
I just got to play around in it a bit and see if I can help it co exist with the humans living under it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Pruned these Palo Verde last year. I remember being asked if I had hit them too hard.
So here are the trees after prune last year.
And then before prune this year.

 

[flushcut]

I really like pruning on small trees every now and again, it mixes things up a bit.

 

[lxskllr]

Pruning terrifies me. It's easy to do wrong. Wrecking is easy. Take it down, don't break shit.

I like those those trees Stephen. I may have said that last time they came up. The wispy foliage is attractive and makes nice shadowing on the house.

 

[flushcut]

When pruning, less is more, is my motto.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

They grow pretty fast too. These have yellow flowers. Very draught tolerant.
Downside of pruning these two are the cactus around them that bite.

 

[flushcut]

Ouch!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

This years fini ..
This stem shot shows how low a couple of the leaders are. We will, over time, remove the remaining low attached stem. Maybe next year. She kind of likes how it shades the wall as does her pooch.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

However. The two low ones, one now missing, encroach her view of the stars in those chairs in front.

 

[Treeaddict]

What do you all typically do in situations like this? Let the small trees grow or remove them? Any issues with strangulation or the younger trees out competing the older one causing decline?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Too Close and too competative for my dry climate here.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

I'm always tempted to think that's a good way to replace the old tree when it declines, the successor is already in place, less waiting time. But the younging is in trouble to grow a nice shaped crown. What would it looks like really alone if the big one disapears? A more important concern is the struggle to establish a good and sturdy root system in the middle of the old one. How to put a well balanced set of roots where there are massive obstacles all around? Like you said, strangulation may occur and do a lot of damages but I have a hard time to imagine the small one competing enough the big one to put it in decline. It's more like the young will do something only if the old comes in decline.
I have a big dead chestnut in the midle of the wood. It was the old king of the area. I was happy because a young tree (unknown specie) was growing slowly at his foot since many years and would be a nice replacement. But the young didn't make it due to the oddly shaped root system and the wind blew it over. The big dead ancestor is still there, but the young is gone. Sad.
An other problem is, will the young survive to the fall or the dismantling of the big one? And even if it went through this catastrophic event, it had to deal with the fungi conquering the so close old roots. It can be good enough or deadly.

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[Maximalist]