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Tag for questions asking how to look after trees.

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I Have been Growing an Avocado from a Pit. It is 2 yrs old! How and When to Prune, again?

I have been growing an Avocado, from a Pit, for 2 years! I live in Upstate NYS, so it HAS to be INDOORS at least half of the year. It has been healthy, but, I NEED PRUNING instructions!! I have pruned it, previously, twice. PLEASE HELP! ( Especially…
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What is this brown spot in my cherry leaf?

I have a cherry fruit tree that I don't know the species name, but in my country it's called Japanese Cherry. Some of my cherry's leaves have brown spots, it looks like a fungus but also looks like tiny insect eggs. Anyone knows what this is? And…
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Onion(not peel) water for fertilizer?

I have heard several times that onion peel water is very good for fertilizer, but I never heard about onion itself. Is it good or bad for plants? I only heard if it can be used for insecticide, but I used it without any mix anything but the ants and…
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Spraying Insecticides overhead - without getting covered with insecticide

Does anyone have a method/technique to spray insecticides that does not cover a person with overspray when you are spraying above your head? I am not talking about the spray that hits you when the wind blows back into your face - I am talking about…
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The bark on my 50 year old Japanese Maple splitting

I have a fifty year old Japanese Maple at my old house. I went to visit the tree and notice the bark on one of the lower trunks had split was peeling away and now there were black circular marks, (not holes) on the bare tree
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Pruning potato tree to shorten

I have a potato tree that is round shape on the top about 10 feet tall. I’d like this to be about 3 feet tall but I will be cutting off all the branches. If I do cut it to a 3’ stump will the tree begin to grow new branches. Marlona
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What is wrong with my Cordon Apple tree?

It has a white spider web like covering... What is it and how should I treat it? I live in the UK.
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How to prune a young MASTIC TREE?

This little tree is about 5 feet tall and has 4-5 stems - I want it to have multi trunk. It's growing in AZ so should I worry about sun damage after I pruned it to make it look less like a bush. The stems are only about 1" thick at this point.…
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Is this a girdling root and should it be removed

See below images for what appears to be a girdling root that might eventually start choking off a main root. Before I remove it I wanted to get some thoughts. Any input is much appreciated!
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Mini solar-powered pump for poorly-drained soil

I have a tree which wants well-drained soil but which is planted in clay (other than the good soil that was added around / below it). Because of where it is, it can accumulate too much water, so I put gravel in the bottom of the hole and a piece of…
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How to encourage banana trees to grow after insulating over winter

I have a few banana trees (How to insulate banana tree during winter) that I insulated with fiberglass over the winter in northern Mississippi. Two have started growing leaves. The others haven’t, but are still alive. See below for an example.…
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When to remove unwanted buds

I have planted a 15 feet long mulberry plant about a week ago. I don't want it to have any branch in its bottom 7 feet. But I see it is growing new buds everywhere. When to remove these wanted bottom buds? Right away or let them grow to some length…
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what to do if No. Calif. oak tree has water within trunk

A couple of my trees have water near the base where the tree forks upward. One guy suggests using chainsaw to cut small drain hole at bottom of bole, and then fill bole up with cement? Is this what I should do? I don't want to do anything that will…
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What is killing the ends of tree branches in Virginia?

Over the last 4 weeks here in Virginia, I've notices almost all of the deciduous trees have a handful of branches that were dead in just the last 6-12 inches. My yard has several, small branches that have completely died and fallen off. On a 12 foot…
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Tree Trunk Saddle Repair

I repaired a slit tree trunk for a friend of mine. The trunk was split from the ground up 4 feet. At that point the tree had grown 5 different major branches and left a saddle in the middle where debris had gathered and had a vine growing out of it.…
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