A lot of euc species dont lend themselves to reduction pruning very well.
In many instances the target cut would be to another branch just as long as the one you are removing.
What is recommended a lot is thinning. However care must be taken not to lions tail the tree.
In my experience ideal thinning has to be done on the tips, thinning out the volume of foliage and smaller branches that comprise the foliage head of the branch. This usually has to be done out of a cherry picker as climbing to these tips is near impossible.
The idea being that the parachute on the end of those long lever arms is reduced, meaning less force in wind on the branch. Downfalls are that the tree replaces that foliage approx 3 to 5 years so has to be a regular practice, trees also only grow on the tips so those lever arms continue to extend. It's a tough call pruning eucs, sure the DDD part is easy but knowing what an appropriate dose of pruning is if req'd at all is another matter, in many instances nothing is OK!
Up here you can expect a good lemon scented gum to get 30m tall and trunk up to 1m dia. However they are not as abundant as other species and not that many around in suburbia. |