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| Has anybody used Medicap tree implants before? I just moved into a house with a couple red oaks that have yellowing leaves and appear to have a serious iron deficiency. Normally I try to be as organic as possible, but I don't think think a layer of compost is going to cut it at this point. An arborist from a well-regarded company recommended them. Here's what I'm talking about:
http://treecareproducts.com/ http://www.amazon.com/Medicap-FE1210-Systemic-Iron-Implant/dp/B006MY84 L0 Thoughts? |
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| The chances for tree damage is so significant that the use of tree implants or injections should only be used when critically necessary. If the problem really is iron deficiency, then one treatment won't solve it. Repeated injections add insult to injury, without addressing the real problem.....a problem with the pH of your soil. What is the pH of your soil? How old are the trees? Is your soil reasonably well drained? |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Fri, Jul 6, 12 at 17:52
| ..as Rhizo said, it's a soil problem and probably pH-related at that. This can be mitigated. Most likely, your soil pH is too high, too alkaline, for that tree specie to access enough iron or manganese. Lowering the pH with soil sulfur will gradually get you where you need to be. And while the effect will then gradually be overcome by your soils natural buffering capacity, it is a simple matter to repeat the inexpensive treatment. +oM |
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| I agree with Rhizo and Wiscon. Probably pH. I think the red oaks need an acidic soil. I'd love to have one in my yard but they wouldn't like my clay. Nuttall oak is as close as we can come to a red oak where I am. I wouldn't let a tree company talk me into something like that to inject into the tree. There are products you can get that will help the soil, what this guy recommended won't do that, so won't solve the problem. |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Thu, Jul 12, 12 at 23:48
| Yeah, implants and other whiz-bang systems seem al high-tech and scientific. But it's all nonsense really. Injecting some needed element into the tree tissue, when the underlying condition remains in effect, is just foolishness in my opinion. BTW, red oaks will do just fine in areas having clay-based soils. The key is that the site must also still retain the original A horizon layer, the layer where all the topsoil and humus are. It's the stripped, new subdivision situations, where this layer is absent, where the trees will really not do well. The clay itself is not the problem. +oM |
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