STRONG tree, WEAK tree

[@holymoly6829]

Another great tutorial mate 🤗🤗🤗👍💕🕊

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thank you

[@ronr3656]

Thank you for all your hard work and contributions toward arborist education. I will be linking this video in the next Plant Health Care Newsletter for the Ohio Green Industry Association. Some of your tree species are different but the message cuts across boundaries. Great stuff!

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thank you Ron. I do need help getting my videos out there. I don’t put any effort into promoting so any help is great.

[@chondromarecords]

Love your video's! So refreshing and full of your genuine curiosity and passion for learning!

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thank you.

[@nena4215]

Very good episode!!

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thanks Nena

[@BigRoofBigSnow]

Pinnacle of tree education. Thank you!

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thank you

[@tonibueltemann5516]

Thank you for the effort you put into making these videos, they really are rare gems in this KZbin quarry. Could you recommend any literature about fungus as it relates to tree health?

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

So many books on Fungus. Best to be specific.

[@jebidiahspringfield1570]

Pests of Native California Conifers

[@nigelwylie01]

19:15 Your videos occasionally provide something really surprising. I can’t call this one ‘an easter egg’ because of the subject matter, but it started me, then made me smile.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

I put that in to see if comments told me the video was watched to the very end.😊

[@nigelwylie01]

@@arboristBlairGlenn I’m one of those people who likes to sit in the cinema until the credits of a film have finished before standing up!

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

@@nigelwylie01 I appreciate it

[@compostjohn]

@@nigelwylie01 Me too!

[@nom5205]

very educational and informative. learnt a lot from your channel. thanks and cheers !!

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

My pleasure

[@shanesouza4303]

Great one for modern times and modern tree 🌳 problems. 🤘😎✌️

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thanks Shane, I’m trying to up my game with the video content. Taking longer to edit these. Hope you guys appreciate my efforts.

[@shanesouza4303]

@@arboristBlairGlenn yes it's always appreciated. 😎✌️

[@jmeinecke14]

Nice video, nice to see someone so interested in teaching tree health on KZbin. Sweet score on that tongue and groove too. Oh and the ahhh at the end got me 👍

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thanks Josiah, I do try hard. Teaching has always been a passion for me. Getting people to listen is the challenge. Glad you watched to the end. Blair

[@paulstecker5693]

Good boy it looks like you got another good video to watch this one's from 9 years ago you just showed your face she'll boy it had a hole in a good thing you were wearing that whatever chipped into that I'll watch this later on thank you.

[@kodonosaki9273]

You must grind down the stump until you get below it. If the attaching main roots have substantial girth, or are too dense in the ground, they also need to be ground away or up-rooted as well, until they will no longer interfere in the future with whatever is planted above.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Yes, could not have said it better myself!

[@seantomei3272]

Great video! Love the tree in the planter analysis.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thanks Sean

[@NakEdits]

A lot of knowledge in this video thankyou!

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Appreciate the comment

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

If you enjoy my channel and want to help me out, Buy me a coffee! www.buymeacoffee.com/blairglenn

[@f.demascio1857]

Richmond, VA Neighborhood streets are lined with gigantic White, Red and Willow Oaks as well as giant Elms, in the City's claimed "right of way. You're not allowed to do any pruning to them, even if you hire the arborist/tree care company yourself. 24" - 36" diameters. Growing in a 30" wide strip of soil between sidewalks and asphalt. Most are loaded with dead limbs that fall on parked cars. When we get a wind event, like a Derecho, many of these trees come down and tell their stories. Almost all of them have giant hollows all the way down to and below ground level. If it falls on your house, you have to fight the city in court to get any compensation.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Very interesting story. I can’t imagine the city not allowing a competent Arborist firm to maintain a hazard. Sound like a court case of negligence and public safety.

[@bobmillan457]

Thanks for all the information 👍

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Glad you liked this video

[@turnstyles7485]

That Cedar tree with all that pitch, could supply a bowyer/fletcher with a life time supply of pitch glue.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

True

[@BGTech1]

Fantastic video! I learned a few things.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thank you

[@jd3497]

Mulch, but mulch properly. A doughnut, not an anthill that grows ever large year after year.

[@RandallLakedogpix]

Thanks so much for sharing, it really helps. We have 7 acres of mixed Redwood, Monterey Pine, Doug Fir, Black Walnut, Chestnut, Madrone, olive, and Acacia mostly. Up on the Skyline just south of Alice’s Restaurant.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Just down the road from me. (Well, sort of). I’m close to 9

[@ElectricityTaster]

on the topic of crossing and rubbing branches, there is an arboriculture lecturer in the UK who has written a bit about this stuff. He calls them natural braces. He's also been doing a lot of research on tree forks (and milked the puns, of course).

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

I would enjoy hearing that

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@arboristBlairGlenn he has several articles on his linkedin. His series "trees over time" is really good. His name is Duncan Slater PhD

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

@@ElectricityTaster thanks, I will look for him

[@chrisdavis7368]

He blamed Eric for that bit at the end poor Eric

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Everyone needs a scapegoat

[@chrisdavis7368]

@@arboristBlairGlenn lol we all take one for the Team sometimes

[@patrickd3256]

Was wondering if you could elaborate more on the drain tube in the oak. Is it bad to put the tube in, or drain the water all together?

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Putting in a drain just spreads the decay further. While the water is bad, most arborists are saying that while it’s bad, you can make it worse.

[@patrickkennedy3786]

Did you recommend something ericaceous? That whole family of plants loves rotting wood. Good observation about the stump. Ill be sure to keep it in mind in my own work.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

As in the heather family. Did I ? Guess I need to rewatch my own video.

[@pierre5699]

Bloody interesting, thank you! 😁 Need to check my Cedar Deodora now 😉 (so long to produce seeds by the way...).

[@compostjohn]

Ah, Armillaria mellea, one of my favourite fungi. It was the first edible fungus I ate, autumn of 1984 - ID-ed from books, I decided it couldn't be anything else, and ate one... before coming back the next day (phew!) and harvesting enough for several meals. But it's usually identified in the soil and in the wood it parasitises by 'bootlaces' (at least it does in the UK) which are several mm thick diameter strings of mycelium, black in colour. It''s the best indicator of Honey Fungus. I saw no bootlaces in that root system.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Honey mushrooms do make some folks sick.

[@compostjohn]

@@arboristBlairGlenn They do when they rampage through an orchard and take out valuable fruit trees. I never heard of anyone having a bad gut reaction to them though; not like Chicken of the Woods which does sometimes cause nausea.... including me on one occasion.

[@OBS_Ford_Diesels_Inc]

Plenty of interesting trees in this video. Birch trees are fairly common here and they don't really tolerate heavy pruning. I have a multiple trunk Birch growing next to the house, just gave it a light trim, only cut out the few dead limbs and a small dead top. Otherwise I let it be. I have a few maples like the one you removed, one was struck by lightning several years ago and it's really struggling to survive. Two of them are doing well, and the 4th has some problems. One of the main leaders is splitting through the middle. It's still standing but obviously not for long with a serious defect like that. Fortunately for the tree it's not near the house and if that lead did fail it would simply end up in the lawn. I'm going to use my bucket truck and do some weight reduction and then I'm going to support it up high. What I plan to use is much more than needed but I'd rather not lose the tree because it losing that lead would completely destroy half the tree. If it were over the house or threatening anything I care about I'd never consider saving it. But since it's not a threat to anything I believe it deserves help to stay. The tree at the end was interesting, too bad it died. When I saw the white in the roots I instantly thought of white rot fungus. But armillaria mellea is also a strong possibility, especially since most of the old stump from the live oak is still there. That stump not being thoroughly ground out probably had a lot to do with why the new tree didn't last. And yes I watched to the end, I always do.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Thanks. Glad you watched it all the way to the “ouch”😊

[@OBS_Ford_Diesels_Inc]

@@arboristBlairGlenn yes I saw that part. It happens sometimes. Part of the job I guess. I just remembered my dad owns a 1997 f250 exactly like yours, but his is the xl trim level, it doesn't have power windows locks or mirrors. It has a bench seat. Other than that the only difference is it's color is light metallic blue. He stopped by to visit today, was great to see him. He's had his f250 since 2004 I think. It was the replacement for the 1987 f250 extended cab long bed 4x4, 6.9 diesel and a 4 speed manual. I was reminded about that when I saw him pull up in the blue f250 and remembered it too is a 1997. It's had plenty of problems over the years, most of which I helped him fix.

[@jeffmicka6912]

Great bit of work this week. I had always wondered about planting above old stumps that had been ground out.g Thanks so much for taking us thru your diagnostic/detective process for analyzing why the maple died. Did the previous people who.ground out the oak stump even get 12" down? In the tree that had the slime that smelled like alcohol would you say that it was yeast/fungus that was undergoing anaerobic respiration that caused the slime? Or is it bacterial in nature?

[@DHCares4all]

I think it was bacteria that caused fermentation.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Generally bacteria causes the fermenting

[@csn583]

Seems like keeping the mulch is contradictory to maintaining a defensible space up here in the mountains. Not such a concern down in the valley.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

I talk about what the trees need to survive. Dying and dead trees are a big fire hazard.

[@offgridinthepacificnorthwe3210]

Back in the 70 and 80s we built a lot of homes with clear heart Rewood shiplapp siding. The last home we built was 89, the year of the quake. The kiln dried clear Hart was close to $4k a thousand board feet.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Wonder what it goes for today? If you can find it.

[@jackdonkey22]

If i donut (and not volcano) my living trees with wood chips is it likely to transfer fungus to the living trees? There are some mushrooms growing out of some of my old wood chips.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

So I am assuming that your question is dealing with is the word infected with a fungus prior to putting it on as a mulch. That’s a good question, I’ve asked that at many of the conferences I’ve gone to, and the consensus seems to be that once he chip the tree, it starts decaying and most of the problems are not an issue. Now that does not mean that it can’t happen. Adding wood chips from some species can be a mistake. Eucalyptus, for example, has oils that inhibit growth.

[@holymoly6829]

Just going through the comments Wow 🤩👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Seems like I have a good video

[@holymoly6829]

@@arboristBlairGlenn I love them all mate 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@bwoutchannel6356]

Could copious amounts of vinegar have mitigated the issues?

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Vinegar? How so?

[@raphlvlogs271]

6:20 can wood actually be fermented in to alcohol

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Yes, wood alcohol is a real thing

[@raphlvlogs271]

grafting was probably first invented due to people observing the rubbing and connecting branches of trees.

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Possibly true

[@jebidiahspringfield1570]

@7:20 RIP chain :(

[@arboristBlairGlenn]

Use what you’ve got unless you are really milling. Didn’t take that much longer.