Feel like cutting down my wafer ash trees
caterwallin
2 years ago
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arbordave (SE MI)
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Comments (16)We had a blockage at one point and pulled out tree roots when cleaning. The maple was only feet from the sewer line and it is a old house, so it is not surprising. The new tree will be planted further away from the pipe. I think the other trees on my street are lindens, but I'm so bad at identifying trees. From the bark, it looks like lindens from the pictures I looked at online. Also, I don't jump over these trees, but don't frown either if that makes sense. It isn't an issue the city is offering a tree and I'm happy they ripped out the maple (it scared me with constantly falling large limbs). I'm just going to use the tree as the base for designing the front yard and don't want to find out I based my plan off a horrible tree. Hope that makes sense. I'm just a little confused as some sites classify the these trees as medium trees and others indicate large. Maybe they stay smaller when planted as street trees?...See MoreRooting Ash Tree Cutting
Comments (9)That article is vague to anyone w/o a fair amount of knowledge. It suggests taking suckers and potting them... which to me suggests the sucker is sliced away from the parent tree with roots attached and potted up. Then the article states "adding a rooting hormone" could help grow more roots, possibly so, however roots are already there and for me it would be a simple balancing game of how much of the sucker height to keep, including buds, for the amount of roots present. That article is poorly written. The other half of the story is if the source tree was a grafted tree and a sucker was used for propagation... you'd end up with two differing trees. A grafted tree is: the borrowing of another trees "roots" to produce a clone of a desirable tree. So any suckers that arise are of the borrowed root system. I'd forget completely about any attempt to root an ash, auri. Best regards, Dax...See MoreATTN: MissSherry: Question re Wafer Ash
Comments (20)Yes, they've used mine many times, but if I find eggs on it, I usually cut out the part of the leaf with the egg on it and transfer it to wild black cherry, which I've put in a cage to raise myself. I don't have that much wafer ash, and I don't want to use it for caterpillars that do so well on wild black cherry, which is the most common place I find tiger eggs and/or cats - I like to save wafer ash for the giant swallowtails. I have raised them on it, though, when I found caterpillars on it, and they grow quickly. It's a great plant, but it's never been easy for me to grow. This spring, slugs have been eating the leaves! :( Sherry...See MoreUGH! Found stink bugs on my wafer ash.
Comments (14)I have both pests mentioned in this thread, that darn non-native stink bug and the potato leaf hopper. We never had stinkbugs in the house like we have the past few years and all through the winter. I'm kept busy in the winter just trying to wipe out all of the stink bugs in the house. At first I thought that they were coming on in pursuit of those darn invasive Asian beetles that resemble our lady bugs, but I just think that they're looking for a place to spend the winter just like those darn beetles do. They're both a huge nuisance and we spend a lot of time in the winter trying to keep bot of those foreign bugs at bay. Now, the potato leaf hoppers...I hate those too. I planted wafer ash here about 7 years ago and i never had a problem with those darn things up until 2016 when they started showing hp here. We would like to have the wafer ash tree leaves to feed the Giant Swallowtails that we bring in to raise, but the potato leafhoppers are always on them, with them getting worse as the summer goes on. They're really bad now and when my husband was mowing he said he had dozens flying in his face as he went past one of the trees. I have at least 8 trees with most of them being only about a foot tall, but there are two that are a fairly nice size (a little taller than me). The leaf hoppers have the trees looking absolutely horrible. I have kept a few of the small nice-looking wafer ash trees covered with tulle to help keep the bugs from getting in there, so we have a least some leaves to feed the Giants. I have other host plants to feed the Giants, but it really makes me mad when I can't use a plant for the purpose for which it was intended. I think I'll have to buy more tulle to cover more trees next year. I'll also have to keep them cut to a reachable level (and a size that I won't grow poor buying tulle). I imagine I'll have to replace it every year or two. Just thought I'd chime in saying I can relate to the bug problems....See Morearbordave (SE MI)
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