 Re: Chestnut Problem
not nice this disease! also chesnut leaf miner is also ravaging trees around my way.
some few trees ive found with it recover mostly all others dont ,as soon as you notice any form of trunk gurdling remove it as ive been called out to a few that the stems have snapped due to the nature of the dead and alive wood of horse chesnut not been a good supportive structure for a whole tree crown.
Ive tryed repollarding old pollards that had not been touched for 10+ years as only the regrown stems where gurdled,they came back nice but now have horse chesnut leaf miner on the regrowth! I also pollared a mature one that was badly infected and had started gurdling as the customer did not want it felled and hoped the mutalated tree might produce some regrowth that would eventually develope in to a new crown but that died or is very close at the moment, all the other badly infected ones ive come across have been felled,i have tryed pruning out infected branches this seems to be working but there is still weeping legions on the trunk wich to me dont look a good sighn ......ive also found phytopher recently on a few birch ,maples and beach........hey roller do you remember that beach tree i showed you at the top of mr prices garden?im pretty sure thats phytophera have a look when you get up there |