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| A problem and should be removed |    | 96 | 51.61% |
| Depends on the vine |    | 90 | 48.39% |
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26th December 2007, 04:41 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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|  Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Here's some pics of the cactus crap I'm on about. Also note in the first pic the great tree work on the very LH side of the pic, even the palms get topped! 
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26th December 2007, 04:43 PM
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| Part of the Furniture  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
I've only topped palms when taking them down.I know they wanted to use those to run cable. 
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12th January 2008, 05:00 AM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: belgium
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll? Quote:
And so the palm becomes the pole... I recently discovered a whole neighborhood out here were almost every tree is topped. Oaks, beeches, ash, conifers, pines, everything... It's top-city really... | |
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15th January 2008, 04:43 PM
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| Former Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Oregon
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Seems I didn't post it yet, but here's a photo of a Catalpa limb that I removed an embedded vine from. Trumpet vine I think. This is the same Catalpa I posted about months ago. The vine had about a 7" diameter at it's base, and about 5" in this cavity it caused. Sort of cool looking in a way. The cross-cut is from a section a few feet off the ground. Seems that there were over 70 rings showing.   |
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21st January 2008, 11:28 AM
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| Former Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: In the Great Pacific Northwest
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Yah, there are some trees here like that. I will have to snap some photos. Found a 3 inch grand fir here last week that was strangled to death (girdled) by a small 1/8 inch vine. Anazing/amusing. I will have to change my vote to all vines are bad for trees.
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21st January 2008, 01:02 PM
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| Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
in my humble opinion they are.
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22nd January 2008, 10:25 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: england
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Rugy in thr u.k is topped town. I gotta get a digital camera to show the world the years of mindless hacking that that place has seen. you would be gob smacked and its still going on today!
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22nd January 2008, 05:03 PM
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| Mature tree Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: belgium
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
I've got a fair commin' up and I'm dedicating a few square feet on how it shouldn't be done. To educate people a bit. I drove a whole day to find trees that have been hacked. Got at least 500 pics or so... We could dedicate a seperate thread to it. What do you guys think? Wanna see?
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22nd January 2008, 05:34 PM
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| Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Totally... lets see what you've got. hopefully even the lurkers could look and be like "oh crap... " LOL I'd personally like to see what you've got Quercus.
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23rd January 2008, 05:29 AM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: hawaii. ohio. oregon. california
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
The vine in Ekk picture looks the same as some i have seen in hawaii. the bugger is thorny and tends to bloom at night. I even think that the comon name has NITE BLOOMING in it. As far as vines go I feel they harbor disease/pathogens by not letting air flow through the tree. Some are constrictors some may be not. I told an old farmer he needed to remove an ivy vine from his oak tree he told me why the vine had been in it for over 80 years. Then again  what do I know
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15th February 2008, 01:49 PM
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15th February 2008, 06:47 PM
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| Former Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bakersfield, Ca
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
NG, I think the thread is already up, check here: http://www.treeworld.info/f9/hacks-y...-see-1607.html |
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16th February 2008, 02:27 AM
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| Part of the Furniture Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: orlando,fl
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9th March 2008, 04:43 AM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bermuda
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
This one's been bumped... I posted a picture on the whatja do today thread, a large Tamarind I did last week, smothered in Elephant's Ear (Pothos/Scindapsis) and Night Blooming Cereus, yes the cactus crap. It was the mother lode!! We took seven truckloads off the tree, it had three big trunks, probably dates from the late 1800's. We estimate 1000lbs or more in weight was removed, sail area drastically reduced. Large cavities in the base were revealed, trees have been windblown in the past, 350+ yr old house within range!! Generally if these vines have not gotten out of hand, I am happy to leave them, they are quite attractive, the cactus has a georgeous scented flower that comes out at night...however if not maintained, they get to big, too heavy and have to go! Pictures...
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9th March 2008, 08:52 AM
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| Former Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SE USA
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll? Quote:
i miss tamarind trees; used to live in one in florida. | |
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10th March 2008, 12:10 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bermuda
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll? Quote:
Oookaaayyyyy.....lived in a Tamarind tree...expand please! What...nobody going to comment on that nice Silky stuck in the tree above me!? Recipe: Tamarind syrup, juice and candied fruit: Take a bunch of ripe tamarinds and shell them. Fill some old peanut butter jars (or some such) with half honey and half blackstrap molasses (leave some room!) mix it up. Stuff as many shelled tamarinds as you can into the mix Put the lid on and leave it for about three months...or more. When done...shloop out the fruit and eat 'em! Not too many at one time, they make you fart! Use the syrup for coughs and colds, mix with hot water ( and appropriate alcoholic beverage if you like...rum would be best!) for a hot toddy Mix with ice water or other fruit juice for a nice summer drink. Use it to sweeten all kinds of 'tings mon!
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10th March 2008, 02:30 PM
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| Former Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: SE USA
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll? Quote:
 had a treehouse in the tamarind tree when i lived in key west--also had one in a sapodilla tree on another lot. Hey, real estate is tight there, and i was very poor, coming off 6 months rehabbing. my tamarind recipe was to puree the pulp with lime and honey and molasses as you suggest and other goodies and sell fruit-ade to the tourists at sunset on mallory pier, along with cookies made from coconut and other local tree food and tropical herbs. Healthy as all getout, and made a good buck at it. It was your basic hunter-gatherer existence; of course expenses are low when you live in a tree and have no kids...
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12th March 2008, 05:41 PM
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| Mature tree  Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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|  Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
greet025:How cool I aspire to living in a tree when I retire! I reckon growing passionfruit up tress is GOOD they make handy trelises!But it would be a pain cutting them off if you had to do it for a living.What r those big green and white leaved vines called I like them.I have been pulling out heaps of vines from the garden this week it strangles everything it's got 3 leaves grouped together.  I also want to know how where you can learn tree climbing in townsville? So getting back to growing vines on trees I feel it depends on the vine |
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27th March 2008, 04:41 PM
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| Sappling Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Pakistan
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Not all vines are equal musqadines are wild vines that provide a staple to wildlife vines of this nature are better left to thrive as to help diversification in the ecosystem...! |
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22nd April 2008, 12:24 AM
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| Sappling Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Illawarra, NSW
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Climbers and trees are two plants that just don't mix. When I was working as a utility arborist, it was the one way to make me double my quotation (after all, your removing 2 plants). The only curious benefit I have experienced of a climber in a tree was seeing a conifer with bright crimson flowers. This was in fact a Cupressus macrocarpa with a Bouganvillea growing throughout the crown. The following attached article seems to follow my sentiments and offer some evidence why climbers should be avoided. |
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24th April 2008, 09:25 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
That was a good doc mate.
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5th May 2008, 02:07 AM
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Not an objective or scientific approach. | |
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5th May 2008, 05:06 PM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Anti vines suits me fine.
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5th May 2008, 06:31 PM
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| Sappling  Join Date: May 2008 Location: sydney australia
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
council officers should be handing out fines to people who have vine infested trees on their property!
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5th May 2008, 07:49 PM
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| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll? Bouganvillias up jacarandas look pretty cool! |
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5th May 2008, 09:37 PM
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| Monument Status  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Townsville Nth Queensland & Gold Coast Sth Queensland
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
So long as all you ever have to do is look at them.  |
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6th May 2008, 09:01 AM
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| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll? Yep could look at them ALL day |
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9th May 2008, 11:29 PM
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| Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Bermuda
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Got a picture of a bougainvillea halfway up a palm tree....
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10th May 2008, 09:26 AM
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| Admin - Razor sharp and independent 2 X Diploma Level 5 qualified arborist Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane
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| Re: Vines up trees? Yes or no poll?
Yeah, that looks real good.  
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10th May 2008, 06:28 PM
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| Mature tree Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: townsville Q.L.D. Australia
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