What's This? - Spruce Deformation

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Slight..no complete derail...

Good guess on Tom's mystery tree.
Be honest...have you been flipping through Dirr for clues? I was after my first guess! Totally admit it. I haven't even seen any of the trees I've guessed, except Manchurian ash which are all dead in Calgary anyway now. And except for the fake one I made up.
 
Re: What\'s This? - Spruce Deformation

I'm not a big bug guy when it comes to this kind of stuff but when I first saw the picture fasciation came to mind. Do conifers suffer from fasciation?

The main stem seems to get larger after the junction of leaders just like I've seen in other species with fasciation. Thanks for any info and feel free to shoot me down on this as well.
 
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It's a fair questuon for sure. I have seen fasciation in spruce here. The fasciation I have seen looks a litle different, but there could easily be more than one appearance. I am going to post some images of fasciation that I have seen. I'll start a new thread for that. Good topic!
 
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Funny you should mention it again Vince. We have a bunch of spruce showing this again, all in same 'park' not in a line or anything. Nothing visible in microscope.

I am recommending a soil sample or maybe a bunch of them. Not sure what else to do. We don't think its herbicide damage on the ones we have either.
 
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Not convinced on soil testing. These spruce are in a landscape, all installed at the same time. Some are showing these symptoms, some not. Some are only showing on one side.

I did a spray with carbaryl anyway, it's what i had with me. So sue me.

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