Calling our local tree experts

[Snyper564]

A normal house fly is ok, wont do damage but things like spider mites, aphids etc can wreak havoc.

Make sure about the water locking or perhaps root rot. Sometimes trees are also kept in a small bag or container for way too long and a root can wrap around the trunk under the soil trying to escape the confinement. When this happens you need to carefully dig and try to find that 1 root.

oi thanks will do

 

[The_Mowgs]

Have some poplar stumps that are starting to grow out again. Need something to decompose / compost them so they can die.

Can use a high amount of epsom salts which will draw all the moisture out. Drill holes nice and deep into the stump, as many holes as possible and as deep as possible. Add epsom salts to all the holes and add water without letting it bubble over.

If you want you can also throw epsom salts around the base after.

Leave for a month or 2 but if it rains cover the stumps so that the rain water doesn't wash the epsom salt away.

 

[maxxis]

Can use a high amount of epsom salts which will draw all the moisture out. Drill holes nice and deep into the stump, as many holes as possible and as deep as possible. Add epsom salts to all the holes and add water without letting it bubble over.

If you want you can also throw epsom salts around the base after.

Leave for a month or 2 but if it rains cover the stumps so that the rain water doesn't wash the epsom salt away.

Will give it a bash. Wont sprinkle it around due to other trees but big old holes I can easily drill.

Some people say diesel in the holes but im not so convinced.

 

[The_Mowgs]

Will give it a bash. Wont sprinkle it around due to other trees but big old holes I can easily drill.

Some people say diesel in the holes but im not so convinced.

Diesel works quicker yes but then you risk diesel getting into the soil, epsom salts is a natural way. Epsom salts in normal quantities are very good for plants and trees

 

[Mike Angelo]

I was chatting to a friend yesterday in Rustenburg and she moved some new trees recently to new house and the trees also had a shock. I told her that when moving trees you need to make note which part is pointing North so that when replanting you orient your tree to North again. She didnt know this and said this is probably a reason why her trees went into shock

I am not sure how true this myth is, it is just something I heard somewhere a very long time ago. Maybe @WAslayer can confirm true or not as he is also a home owner with a garden

Definitely do this if you transplant a cycad. Otherwise it seems to die and you have to wait at least a year or longer for it to start to show signs of life.

 

[RedViking]

Prune it?

 

[B-1]

Have some poplar stumps that are starting to grow out again. Need something to decompose / compost them so they can die.

Easiest way that doesn't have an impact on anything else is to cover it in thick black plastic. Also works for weeds.

 

[Snyper564]

Prune it?

its quiet small and just planted it

 

[maxxis]

Easiest way that doesn't have an impact on anything else is to cover it in thick black plastic. Also works for weeds.

Thank you. I suppose you need to dig it up quite extensively and cover the stump.

These things have stupid big root systems.