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Yeah Berm, dealing with landscaped from container trees is more challenging, in terms of the whole tree toppling in high wind, after a week of rain, and 90 mph wind gusts. My job today was a largish Stone pine, leaning too hard on smaller Stone beside it, over all the utility feeds to the...

My impression's that messin with a conifer's natural branch proximity sequencing's detrimental to a branches ability to withstand highwinds from unexpected directions. Like a buddy system allowing a closely spaced grouping to withstand what a lone individual branch can't. Kinda like the trees...

Well I guess it's a growth characteristic of lateral wood that distinguishes it from veritical trunk wood? Look at a cross section of Lat wood and the compression growth side's substantially bigger than the tension, lopsided n asymmetric. Where as a cross section of vert wood's far more...

Not the first time it's occurred to me by any means, but lateral leaders are far more prone to failure when the wind blows them up rather than down. Now that being the case may well be common knowledge, but I don't recall Shigo or Harris writing on it. I noticed long ago that little conifer...