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Mame
Here's a forsythia I dug up late autumn last year.
It was a twin trunk but only one of them had good movement so the other was removed after the leaves fell.
The roots where checked last weekend as I still had to remove one of the huge tap roots. I didn't have enough time when I initially dug it up so I left it buried in the pot for about 3 months before going back to it.
It had grown about a hand full of roots I can use just above the cut I had to make for the tap root. A lot of roots grew on the back of the tree where I had it covered over with the pot/tub buried in the ground.
I wont be able to use them with them being too high up and probably wont mulch as much next time.
What I was wondering is when do you think the best time to cut back to the live wood and clean all the rotted parts away would be or should I just leave it to rot naturally? You can see the lines of bark where the water flowed down the trunk.
I don't think it will be a problem in the long run, as the back of the tree is still healthy wood. I just don't want to put too much stress on the tree since I had to dig it up again.
I have also seen a lot of people use lime sulphur on forsythia, most of the dead wood is still soft on this tree though and putting that on the live bits of wood i've chopped back at the top would probably kill the trunk right?
Also what do you think of the height of the tree? the nebari is decent I think.
I'll add a few pictures of what it was like last year when I had to stop a wasp from digging down into the trunk.
It was a twin trunk but only one of them had good movement so the other was removed after the leaves fell.
The roots where checked last weekend as I still had to remove one of the huge tap roots. I didn't have enough time when I initially dug it up so I left it buried in the pot for about 3 months before going back to it.
It had grown about a hand full of roots I can use just above the cut I had to make for the tap root. A lot of roots grew on the back of the tree where I had it covered over with the pot/tub buried in the ground.
I wont be able to use them with them being too high up and probably wont mulch as much next time.
What I was wondering is when do you think the best time to cut back to the live wood and clean all the rotted parts away would be or should I just leave it to rot naturally? You can see the lines of bark where the water flowed down the trunk.
I don't think it will be a problem in the long run, as the back of the tree is still healthy wood. I just don't want to put too much stress on the tree since I had to dig it up again.
I have also seen a lot of people use lime sulphur on forsythia, most of the dead wood is still soft on this tree though and putting that on the live bits of wood i've chopped back at the top would probably kill the trunk right?
Also what do you think of the height of the tree? the nebari is decent I think.
I'll add a few pictures of what it was like last year when I had to stop a wasp from digging down into the trunk.
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