Eastern Red Bud...Is it dead?
cjsm5nys
16 years ago
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Comments (6)farmboy1, I hate to be a buzz kill but I will be any way. That's a grafted variety. I had a nice grafted Dogwood that the top died on two years ago and came back from the root stock. It's not the pretty variety I bought. Yours probably won't be either. You can spend the time to see if it's Forest Pansy or not. Actually the leaves may tell you now. On to your question finally. I saw a post from 6 or 7 years ago that addressed this issue. What this person did was to select the most vigorus sprout and prune the rest off. At the end of about three years it was looking like a respectable tree.There was some scarring but people seemed to think that it would heal over eventually....See MorePrune Rust Off of Eastern Red Cedar?
Comments (3)Id still prune it off. Though the other teees have it it is still worth it. I pruned some off a tree I had a few years ago and it never came back. Yours will come back but vigilance is important, at least the fungus wont be sapping energy from your trees to produce fruiting bodies....See MoreDead Red Maple-why?
Comments (1)There is not always a visible reason. Perhaps the dead tree had some wound to its root system no one ever saw. Then when the winter was cold it had xx% less energy available to overcome. I insist trees of various species do have an average life span. Someone shows you a Sequoia that is 300 years old and no one is impressed. Someone finds a 300 year old Cercis canadensis L. (Eastern Redbud) and they just might make the newspaper....See MoreWondering if my Eastern Red Buds Are Still Alive
Comments (8)you need to report it to the city.. and suggest that without proper followup pruning.. the tree might end up being a bush and that can be one heck of a problem in that 2 foot wide hell strip ... and the odds of the city coming back to prune for 5 years is low to nil ... they need to replace it ... looking at that soil .. it appears the tree basically died back to the trunk due to lack of water.. and the nightmare of reflected and retained heat from the pavements ... if it were out back on my 5 acres.. i would spend the 5 years pruning it back into shape ... but where it is.. it has to be replaced.. imo ... fall is planting time.. you might want to try to get them to come out.. while it still has leaves on it.. so they can see it .... ken...See Morespruceman
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