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| Hi everyone, I have a few questions:
First, please hold your opinions about Quaking Aspen. I whole-heartedly agree (for every possible reason mentioned in this forum) that they are probably the worst trees to have in a back (or front) yard. That being said, our new home has aspen trees. I've decided to keep the few in the backyard for the next year or so while getting ready to relandscape. I noticed that one of the trunks is bleeding. I read up that this is usually a sign of borers. My question is: How severe is this, do I need to treat it (if so, how) and will this effect future trees I choose to plant? My intention is to replace the grove of aspen with a Kwanzan Cherry, and I'd like to plant an Eastern Redbud about 30-40ft away from the Cherry. Also in the same yard will be an Osakazuki JM. One last question. My in-laws would like some suckers of the aspen to put around their property (they're in the ideal habitat for aspen). Are the suckers affected by the same thing causing the bleeding, if not what is the best way to transplant the little suckers (pun intended)? Thanks in advance! |
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- Posted by salicaceae z8b FL (My Page) on Sun, Sep 23, 12 at 20:25
| Looks like bacterial slime flux coming out of an old pruning cut that didn't heal. Usually there is little to be done about this and the trees can live for a long time with it - though it can be ugly. It is possible that a borer is in there, but since the weeping comes from an obvious pruning scar, bacterial ooze is more likely. |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Sun, Sep 23, 12 at 22:56
| Know too that aspen are normally short-lived as individual stems. The clonal colony of which any given stem is but a small part may live for a long time, but again, any individual stem is at best about a sixty-year tree. That might sound like a lot but in tree terms, it's not. I'd not personally go to any heroic efforts to delay the inevitable here. And it's out of no dislike for aspen on my part-I like to see naturally occurring groves of them. It just seems a waste to try to prop up that which is only going to fall down anyway. +oM |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Sep 24, 12 at 7:23
| presuming it is bacterial ... what if any treatment is there??? ken ps: trees dont have blood.. so it isnt bleeding ... |
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