I was asked to look at an old purple plum tree...
It looks terrible, loads of vertical growth, but poor leaf cover in the canopy...fresh insect frass coming out of some cracks...ants going in and out of cracks, and then when I climbed up into it a bit...it STINKS!
Ok, its old, it hasnt been pruned for a long time, the ground is hard...oh yes...a 2" yellow and black very fuzzy catarpillar on it as well...
The HO loves the tree, would like to keep it and help it...I'd like to do some gradual rejuvenation pruning, but I assume the stink is a bacterial infection of some kind,is there any effective treatment for that?
What you think?
It looks terrible, loads of vertical growth, but poor leaf cover in the canopy...fresh insect frass coming out of some cracks...ants going in and out of cracks, and then when I climbed up into it a bit...it STINKS!
Ok, its old, it hasnt been pruned for a long time, the ground is hard...oh yes...a 2" yellow and black very fuzzy catarpillar on it as well...
The HO loves the tree, would like to keep it and help it...I'd like to do some gradual rejuvenation pruning, but I assume the stink is a bacterial infection of some kind,is there any effective treatment for that?
What you think?