#Arborists

[urban-homesteading]

Information on pruning overgrown plants.

Your goals are to have adequate air flow throughout the plant, remove diseased or dead branches, and have good light penetrating the entire plant.

Remove any branch that is rubbing against another. This can cause an open wound on the branch, which is an opportunity for disease to invade the plant.

Remove branches that are growing toward the center of the plant. Also, remove any branches that cross each other. Remember we want to provide both air circulation and light penetration.

Remove any dead or diseased branches. A dead branch will be brittle, its buds will be brown. While a live branch will be flexible, buds will be green and there will be a green layer under the bark.

Generally, remove 1/3 of the plants’ height or 1/3 of its branches.

Remove any suckers and or waterspouts. These 2 types of branches look similar, growing straight up. However, a sucker originates from the roots or below the graft. While the waterspout will be vigorous and originate from the trunk or large branches.

Here is some additional information:

https://extension.umd.edu/.../water-sprouts-or-suckers.../

https://www.uky.edu/Ag/Horticulture/QRLabels/Pruning.html...

Illustration credit: Don Wittig, former UME Master Gardener, https://extension.umd.edu/.../pruning-trees-home-landscape/

[clethras]

[plantpest]

does anyone know what trees these are? my friend saw them the other day and had a good laugh at how ugly they are. we suspect willow, but i have near zero knowledge abt trees so i have really no idea

seen in north sweden if that helps

[kinasecrystal]

Wow! I knew that there were efforts ongoing, but this is the first solid timeline I’ve heard - we are just 10 years from staring to reforest the Appalachian mountains with blight-resistant ~American chestnuts, beginning to undo one of the greatest environmental disasters of the last century. If I understand correctly, these hybrids have been selectively bred for generations with the remaining wild American chestnut trees (they will sprout and even flower, but they die young from the blight) until the only observable Chinese chestnut trait left is the blight resistance. The growth habit, leaves, and seed size look exactly like the Native American tree and the hope is that they’ll adopt the same ecological niche as the old American chestnuts (which the Chinese chestnut trees will not).

[xipe-slayground]

Apparently trees have lawyers.

[elsewhereuniversity]

What's up with the Forestry department? Everyone I ask tells me that arborists and Just Like That.

Yeah

[sad-lime]

while I’m at it, shelf/bracket mushrooms are so fucking nasty to me. It’s gross to me like holes are to a trypophobic. Have you ever grabbed a piece of wood and felt the squelch of wet bracket mushrooms on your skin? NO WORSE SENSATION

I HATE YOU

[spuddragon]

Update on the mango seedling! Look at her go!

[southernsnowdogs]

I thought about this Ginko tree for a month and finally decided to splurge since my other Ginko tree is still teeny tiny.

I love him ❤️❤️

[borekdothu]

Alpinista mókusok

Kicsit megigazítottuk a fenyőfa elszáradt ágait. Közben megtanultunk néhány mászó csomót, gyártottunk magunknak mászógépet kötelekből és olyan magasra másztunk, hogy csuda.

[the-august-one]

New reaction gif for those times some blow hard asks the perennial question 'where have all the flowers gone?' 'where have all the masculine men gone?'

(x)

[clethras]

[bearberrythief]

I'm thinking of becoming an arborist. Might not be the most obvious career choice for someone with a masters in art history, but I've always found it interesting and I've always loved pruning trees and ecology and horticulture.

Arborists of tumblr, any advice on how to get into the field (in canada)?

[cottagebff]

Katsura tree in the courtyard

[stone-cold-groove]

Precious are the memories that trees recall.

[iamthedevilestfairy]