Volunteer Op. Tree Pruning in Uptown

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Permalink Reply by Laurie Williams on December 10, 2010 at 1:46pm

Nick,

 

I wish I weren't working tomorrow. This sounds like one I could have actually participated in. If it gets rained out, I'll try to help with the rescheduled session. Laurie

Permalink Reply by Nick Bridgeman on December 10, 2010 at 2:02pm

I got a pretty good feeling this will be rained out.  Waiting to hear final word from Mark in the morning for the reschedule date.  Will be fun and rewarding, I love pruning crepes and small trees.

Permalink Reply by Jim Volgas on December 10, 2010 at 3:37pm

Nick, email me when it gets rescheduled. Jim V.

Permalink Reply by Nick Bridgeman on December 10, 2010 at 4:39pm

Will do.

Permalink Reply by Nick Bridgeman on December 11, 2010 at 12:30pm

Rained out, will update on new date.

Permalink Reply by Karen davenport on December 11, 2010 at 9:54pm

Nick-
I don't know about Memphis, but it was raining here when I got up and I don't know if it has stopped for even an hour! Do you have a rain date for the tree planting and pruning project? My Saturdays are somewhat spoken for between now and Christmas, but I may be able to break away.
I also want to thank you again. I appreciate what you did - more than you know.
Also, a question. White pines. I know they dont do well here. But I have two clienst that have several planted. For no apparent reason, they get a yellowish tinge and from that point on it's downhill. These trees went thru the drought and are just now begining the death march. The larger pines got no additional water during the drought but the smaller ones did. Comments?

Permalink Reply by Nick Bridgeman on December 13, 2010 at 10:05am

Two questions:

1 Do they perpetuate the symptoms through other trees?

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2. Were there any pitch tubes?

 

I am noticing Southern Pine Beetle kill down here.  The trees just didn't have the moisture to produce enough pitch to flush out the bugs.  SPB will follow stressed trees and will take them out one by one.  I wouldn't suggest watering them during the wet months as they could develop fungal infections.  Check out SPB online, you"ll find some good images on forestry images.com.  Tennessee had a horrible outbreak back in 01-03 that just leveled a lot of the pine plantations throughout middle and east TN.  EWP is a little out of it's range over here and doesn't tend to do or last very long.

Karen davenport said:

Nick-
I don't know about Memphis, but it was raining here when I got up and I don't know if it has stopped for even an hour! Do you have a rain date for the tree planting and pruning project? My Saturdays are somewhat spoken for between now and Christmas, but I may be able to break away.
I also want to thank you again. I appreciate what you did - more than you know.
Also, a question. White pines. I know they dont do well here. But I have two clienst that have several planted. For no apparent reason, they get a yellowish tinge and from that point on it's downhill. These trees went thru the drought and are just now begining the death march. The larger pines got no additional water during the drought but the smaller ones did. Comments?

Permalink Reply by UT Master Urban Foresters on December 30, 2010 at 3:42pm

We hope to reschedule a date for the Uptown volunteer day over the next week or so.  As soon as I know of a tentative date I'll post.

Permalink Reply by West TN Chapter TUFC on January 25, 2011 at 3:02pm

We have a new date set for this Saturday.  Time will most likely be the same, 10am.  We need as many equpiied volunteers as we can get.  The pruning work will take a couple hours and will be followed by a get together.  All information should be considered tentative until I can confirm.  So go ahead and see what your schedules will allow and let's get out there and help our friends and our community!