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Originally Posted by TreeDimensional  I see the tree as a semi-mature tree |
Treeseer, how old is this tree do you think?
With that girth I see it as mature tilting into over mature. I would guess and I'm not familiar with the area or tree that it's around 150yrs to 200 years old.
My feeling for further growth potential is low, I think that tree would take 5 years to seal over a 4" wound. Large wounds I dont think would seal over at all.
I feel if the top were cut off it would become a rotten pipe, as the diameter is so large the sapwood rings would be thin. Decay would advance from the centre out toward to sapwood. New sapwood and girth/trunk growth would be minimal. I dont see the wound up the top ever sealing over, best thing to have around that top would be live branches including shoots/epicormics to feed the cambium and tree of course.
Not telling you anything you dont know though. I think too often we look for not only the quick fix but the permanent one. If comparative to say some-one caring for roses we cared for trees then some-one would be up and down that tree and checking on it how often? Leave a hedge or rose for years and what have you got?
To keep that tree means to care for it, often. Check, inspect, photograph every year with the customer doing 3 monthly soil treatments as prescribed by the good doctor.
