- Location
- Nanaimo, Canada
How's winter been for you guys?
Winter Tree Care
- Thread starter charonwest
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samsquatch
Participating member
- Location
- SE MN
MN is far better this year than last year bout this time. -32F with -66F windchill last February. +26F here today!
southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
Moving into orchard pruning season.
6 nice, matching Japanese maples to prune on the side of steps approaching the house. Nice 'curb-appeal'.
Annual catalpa pollard to do soon.
Need to do some pruning/ cabling/ bracing on elms at my own house.
15" of rain in January, so far, so phones are slow.
6 nice, matching Japanese maples to prune on the side of steps approaching the house. Nice 'curb-appeal'.
Annual catalpa pollard to do soon.
Need to do some pruning/ cabling/ bracing on elms at my own house.
15" of rain in January, so far, so phones are slow.
- Location
- Retired in Minneapolis
I started two catalpa pollards then moved. It seemed like the flowers would cluster like lilac or foxglove. I’d like to see their pollard blossoms
Species?
- Location
- Whatcom County
BELLINGHAM - Whatcom county is in full winter swing. The boss is currently skiing, so I’m glad he’s having a good time. The days are finally starting to get longer, but the pnw rain is relentless. It’s my second year as a pro tree climber, and I’m starting to realize the trees never do seem to get smaller around here.
How are you doing charonwest?
How are you doing charonwest?
deevo
Been here a while
- Location
- Horseshoe Valley, Ontario, Canada
Very busy here, 6 days a week, booked for a month and a half right now solid. I’m in Ontario, likely because it’s been a milder winter which I’ll take any day
Reach
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Atglen, PA
Around here it’s been rather wet, and warm. Not bad weather for pruning, but lousy for everything else.
He said catalpa
Similar to what Samsquatch said, NE Wisconsin has been warm hanging right around 30 degrees, last year yesterday low was -39 F and I couldn’t work on anything I had available. I’ll take the mild weather while it lasts, still getting more nervous everyday as it feels like I’m operating on borrowed time at this point. We will see how nice the next two months will be to us.
That's a genus
- Location
- Retired in Minneapolis
....speciosa
I think any catalpa would be a fantastic pollard with an eye toward flowering.
I had one catalpa as a control. This was pruned following arb criteria to develop good structure and lowest limb height. The other was pollarded.
The ones I was pollarding had gone through a few seasons of forming. After growing them up to a height that could be maintained from the ground I messed around with pruning responses. On one head I'd let all the sprouts grow, another cut back the shortest and leave the longest, another keep the short and cut the rest, last, cut all sprouts off at the collar like a traditional pollard.
Some of the leaves on the pollard grew to be around 20"x12 or 15"...fantastic! I think that there was probably the same square inches of leaf surface in control v pollard.
After a few seasons of pollarding I saw how flowering reacted to pruning. My goal was to control the re-growth to concentrate foliage and flower buds. I think that flowers formed mostly on last years new growth. The system I thought of was to do alternate the cutback.
Start with a total cutback to the pollard heads. Let them grow out the first season.
Dormant prune half of the heads to the head and let half keep their one year woody growth. My expectation was to see those covered with flowers the next spring.
I couldn't follow up because I moved out of town. Never met the new owners to describe what I was doing. The closing took place electronically out of town on Weds. The next Saturday morning I got a call from my old neighbor who told me that the new owners ripped out about 90% of what I was growing...shrubs, perennials and trees....gone
I think any catalpa would be a fantastic pollard with an eye toward flowering.
I had one catalpa as a control. This was pruned following arb criteria to develop good structure and lowest limb height. The other was pollarded.
The ones I was pollarding had gone through a few seasons of forming. After growing them up to a height that could be maintained from the ground I messed around with pruning responses. On one head I'd let all the sprouts grow, another cut back the shortest and leave the longest, another keep the short and cut the rest, last, cut all sprouts off at the collar like a traditional pollard.
Some of the leaves on the pollard grew to be around 20"x12 or 15"...fantastic! I think that there was probably the same square inches of leaf surface in control v pollard.
After a few seasons of pollarding I saw how flowering reacted to pruning. My goal was to control the re-growth to concentrate foliage and flower buds. I think that flowers formed mostly on last years new growth. The system I thought of was to do alternate the cutback.
Start with a total cutback to the pollard heads. Let them grow out the first season.
Dormant prune half of the heads to the head and let half keep their one year woody growth. My expectation was to see those covered with flowers the next spring.
I couldn't follow up because I moved out of town. Never met the new owners to describe what I was doing. The closing took place electronically out of town on Weds. The next Saturday morning I got a call from my old neighbor who told me that the new owners ripped out about 90% of what I was growing...shrubs, perennials and trees....gone
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Some awesome old Catalpa pollards in my town. I’ll try to visit and get some images.
How do you even deal with that? It only has gotten down to single digits where I'm at and I feel like if I was any more bundled up I wouldn't be able to climb well.
- Location
- Retired in Minneapolis
If there’s no wind a single digit day isn’t bad
Dress like a mountaineer. Pay fir quality clothing.
Positive Mental Attitude
Dress like a mountaineer. Pay fir quality clothing.
Positive Mental Attitude
The REAL Cold Weather Comfort
COLD WEATHER COMFORT Spend the winter working warm by Tom Dunlap One of the reasons that people enjoy arboriculture is that we get to work outside all the time. On most days we are the envy of the office-bound world. On other days though many treeworkers would rather be inside chasing...
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Thank you for the linked post, Tom.
Just listened to your episode of the educated climber podcast. You did great!
samsquatch
Participating member
- Location
- SE MN
We’re not climbing in -32F. At that temp, the trucks don’t start, even if they’re plugged in (block heaters). Last year, the state cancelled school that week because the buses wouldn’t start.
I just climbed on a job today, 43F and sunny
felt like paradise
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