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Originally Posted by Ekka  I watch and predict failures a lot these days, over extended leaders with a cabbage patch on the end.
It's all about light, shading out by canopy above so grow further and frankly, no really bad storm, ice and snow the bust them and teach the little grubs a lesson.
So, this in turn is what spurs the topping of eucs. People seeing failures so they beat the failure by topping it and also get a denser crown. This is why many times we thin them over reducing them, but you have to thin them out on the ends and many times a bucket truck is required or a very agile light weight climber, and I'm talking secatures and limb lopper pruning not chainsaw.
Now if you go up to the snow areas and see the snow gums they aint as bad, coz nature sorted them out and they learned, genetics or evolution etc. |
Thats a good point about genetics.
The tall skinny tree that newguy was talking about obviously doesn't have to compete for light.
So why did it grow so tall?
(i don't know if it was planted or is remenant bushland)
If it was planted-
Was it maybe genetically predisposed to grow tall, like it's ancestors did?,
regardless of it's environmental influences.
If it is remenant bushland-
This area has been developed for quite some time now, so competing trees would have been removed awhile ago.
As a sapling if it started to react to competition by growing tall and skinny,
would it still continue with this growth pattern forever?
Even if the competition has been removed.
