I have used it a few times; it works pretty well, really. I was mentioning the temperature because I've only done it in warm weather, and I was just thinking the other day about trying it in cooler weather. I looked at a nice tree that needed it, but even though it's still got leaves, I think it's too cold to try. When I did the biggest sycamore at TGIF, I think it took something like eighty gallons, and it gulped it down in no time in the heat. By the way, I think that the treatment might actually stimulate some trunk sprouts (on that tree you did, I'm sure it's sprouting anyway). Was that shingle oak as big as the one that fell over on Murdoch? Now I'm wondering what other big shingle oaks ENTS have seen? Mike
On Oct 17, 5:32 pm, "Will Blozan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike, > > Yeah, it was around 80 degrees. You could tell when the sun went behind > clouds as the uptake slowed. Have you used that system before? On the first > tree I was skeptical about the rate of uptake but once all the leaks were > addressed you could watch it go down. > > The oak leader died according to the superintendent. > > Will F. Blozan > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Michael Davie > Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 1:35 PM > To: ENTSTrees > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Asheville Country Club, NC > > Will- > Was it very warm when you injected the trees? I was amazed at how fast > they took it up before, but that was in warm weather. Do you know if > that half of the oak died out, or was it cut for another reason? > Mike > > On Oct 17, 12:33 pm, DON BERTOLETTE <[email protected]> wrote: > > Will- > > Did you hide your tree measuring gear in a set of golf clubs? > > -Don > > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [ENTS] Asheville Country Club, NC > > Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:11:02 -0400 > > > ENTS, > > > I recently did some work on the Asheville Country Club > > property here in Asheville, > > NC. The work gave me the > > opportunity to measure some trees I have been eyeballing for some time but > are > > in the fairways and would have involved trespassing. > > > I was treating three large sycamores for anthracnose with > > the Rainbow Tree Scientific Macro-Infusion system. I was impressed- It > > delivered 40 gallons of Arbotect fungicide in less than 1 hour per tree. > All > > three trees were 58-60 inches DBH. The standout among them was a 60 inch > tree > > that stands 134.3’ tall- open grown! This specimen has a huge amount of > > wood in it. > > > Arbotect system set up > > > 134.3’ sycamore with Jason Childs for scale > > > We next measured the “NC State Champion” shingle > > oak (Quercus imbricaria). It is an obvious double and one side has been > cut > > off. Diameter of the remaining stem is 46” X 91.6 feet tall. This tree is > > in sorry shape but still the largest I have seen. The NC tree list has it > as 96 > > feet- not bad. > > > Shingle oak base > > > Shingle oak tree > > > Will F. Blozan > > > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > > > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
