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Problem Cherry Tree.
Hi All,
We have a cherry tree in our front garden which is a bit dead! Probably half of top of the tree is dead with no foliage. It's about as tall as our house and I'd really like to be able to bring it back to life. Has this tree reached the end? Would pruning it heavily help? Is so, when and how? Cheers, Martin. |
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Problem Cherry Tree.
On 9 Sep 2006 02:46:36 -0700, "klkbloke"
wrote: Hi All, We have a cherry tree in our front garden which is a bit dead! Probably half of top of the tree is dead with no foliage. It's about as tall as our house and I'd really like to be able to bring it back to life. Has this tree reached the end? Would pruning it heavily help? Is so, when and how? Cheers, Martin. It could well be suffering from silver leaf disease, a fungal infection common in cherries and other prunus species and which causes dieback of shoots and branches and eventually kills the tree. The leaves take on a silvery appearance, as the name implies. Spores enter through open wounds, especially if the tree has been pruned while dormant in winter. Infected branches show a brown or purplish stain in their centres, visible when cut through. There's not usually much hope of saving them. You can try cutting out the infected wood, but you have to make sure to cut at least 15 cm below the lowest point of infection, i.e. of brown staining. Make sure you dispose of all the dead stuff, as leaving it lying around the garden is a sure way of getting re-infection or spreading it to other cherries in the area. IIRC it used to be a notifiable disease, as it could be devastating to commercial cherry and plum orchards. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net |
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Chris Hogg wrote: On 9 Sep 2006 02:46:36 -0700, "klkbloke" wrote: Hi All, We have a cherry tree in our front garden which is a bit dead! Probably half of top of the tree is dead with no foliage. It's about as tall as our house and I'd really like to be able to bring it back to life. Has this tree reached the end? Would pruning it heavily help? Is so, when and how? Cheers, Martin. It could well be suffering from silver leaf disease, a fungal infection common in cherries and other prunus species and which causes dieback of shoots and branches and eventually kills the tree. The leaves take on a silvery appearance, as the name implies. Spores enter through open wounds, especially if the tree has been pruned while dormant in winter. Infected branches show a brown or purplish stain in their centres, visible when cut through. There's not usually much hope of saving them. You can try cutting out the infected wood, but you have to make sure to cut at least 15 cm below the lowest point of infection, i.e. of brown staining. Make sure you dispose of all the dead stuff, as leaving it lying around the garden is a sure way of getting re-infection or spreading it to other cherries in the area. IIRC it used to be a notifiable disease, as it could be devastating to commercial cherry and plum orchards. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net Morning All, Thanks for the prompt and informative responses. As suspected it sounds like the tree needs to be removed which is a shame. No signs of any diseases but I'll keep an eye out when I take the tree down. We'll plant something in it's place but I think that's something for next year. Cheers. |
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Problem Cherry Tree.
Cherry trees, generally speaking, do not respond well to hard pruning.
The advice from C.Hogg is sensible, combinng this with some good quality, well-rotted, mulch may revive the tree. Rarely does hard pruning revitalise a tree. Such pruning may cause a flush of growth, which is, basically, the tree endeavouring to recover from the huge shock of its deprivation.If one is fond of a tree, and the tree is not disease ridden, it is worth the effort to nurture the tree. klkbloke wrote: Chris Hogg wrote: On 9 Sep 2006 02:46:36 -0700, "klkbloke" wrote: Hi All, We have a cherry tree in our front garden which is a bit dead! Probably half of top of the tree is dead with no foliage. It's about as tall as our house and I'd really like to be able to bring it back to life. Has this tree reached the end? Would pruning it heavily help? Is so, when and how? Cheers, Martin. It could well be suffering from silver leaf disease, a fungal infection common in cherries and other prunus species and which causes dieback of shoots and branches and eventually kills the tree. The leaves take on a silvery appearance, as the name implies. Spores enter through open wounds, especially if the tree has been pruned while dormant in winter. Infected branches show a brown or purplish stain in their centres, visible when cut through. There's not usually much hope of saving them. You can try cutting out the infected wood, but you have to make sure to cut at least 15 cm below the lowest point of infection, i.e. of brown staining. Make sure you dispose of all the dead stuff, as leaving it lying around the garden is a sure way of getting re-infection or spreading it to other cherries in the area. IIRC it used to be a notifiable disease, as it could be devastating to commercial cherry and plum orchards. -- Chris E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net Morning All, Thanks for the prompt and informative responses. As suspected it sounds like the tree needs to be removed which is a shame. No signs of any diseases but I'll keep an eye out when I take the tree down. We'll plant something in it's place but I think that's something for next year. Cheers. |
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