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Trees "calculate" which branches to drop based on data they gather as they grow. A competent and experienced arborist knows how to read the tree and simply safely cut off the branches that the tree was already intending to drop so that it doesn't fall on your house or whatever. Inexperienced arborists often ignore this key dendrology fact and may totally butcher your tree. In the process they can create an even large…
>NEVER TOP YOUR TREES Kind of annoying when all the fruit is several meters out of reach
Trees "calculate" which branches to drop based on data they gather as they grow. A competent and experienced arborist knows how to read the tree and simply safely cut off the branches that the tree was already intending to drop so that it doesn't fall on your house or whatever. Inexperienced arborists often ignore this key dendrology fact and may totally butcher your tree. In the process they can create an even large…
Let me take this opportunity to remind HN readers - Posture & Hydration Check!
Or: drink when you feel thirsty and change your position when your back gets tired.
I only know one example, however; for most of us drinking enough is pretty easy.
As for the other end: one particularly hot summer at Pennsic (two-week camping event), we had people who went to the emergency room for low salt levels due to drinking too much water without electrolytes. Turns out that it IS what your body craves - just not plants, so much.
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This is often not useful advice, as it is common to acquire responsibility for a tree than has been badly managed. The GP's link actually gives a solution for this case: pruning more accurately over a slightly longer period. More generally, I've found as the maintainer of a building that while mainstream practices (of property generally, not specifically trees) often undershoot good practice, heritage techniques are…
Well I agree it'd be ideal for our society would be organized in such a way that effective semi-artisanal trades are cheaper than practices that do more harm than good. The real advice I should've given was to construct protection for a window or hire a certified arborist to do a proper thinning of the canopy. But I wanted to remain on the topic of interest dendrology info
Trees "calculate" which branches to drop based on data they gather as they grow. A competent and experienced arborist knows how to read the tree and simply safely cut off the branches that the tree was already intending to drop so that it doesn't fall on your house or whatever. Inexperienced arborists often ignore this key dendrology fact and may totally butcher your tree. In the process they can create an even large…
Fascinating! Where is this data stored? I love the idea of a Tree DB queried via TreeSQL.
It's super fascinating to research all the different little mechanisms plants use to drive their growth and development. As an embedded developer, I find molecular biology strangely compelling. It's fun to see the "glue logic" nature evolved to solve all kinds of problems
Trees "calculate" which branches to drop based on data they gather as they grow. A competent and experienced arborist knows how to read the tree and simply safely cut off the branches that the tree was already intending to drop so that it doesn't fall on your house or whatever. Inexperienced arborists often ignore this key dendrology fact and may totally butcher your tree. In the process they can create an even large…
>NEVER TOP YOUR TREES Kind of annoying when all the fruit is several meters out of reach
Trees "calculate" which branches to drop based on data they gather as they grow. A competent and experienced arborist knows how to read the tree and simply safely cut off the branches that the tree was already intending to drop so that it doesn't fall on your house or whatever. Inexperienced arborists often ignore this key dendrology fact and may totally butcher your tree. In the process they can create an even large…
I'm an arborist since 2022 in the UK and yes, never top trees. But... There's three scenarios that come to mind in which it's somewhere between "acceptable" and "totally fine for some reason". One, it's conifer hedge (the types popular in the UK) as these typically respond very well to being topped. It's what makes them a nice tidy hedge. I'm specifically referring to hedges above 3 meters in height. If you ever work…