r/Tree

This is my lovely avocado that I started from seed approximately 10 years ago. I can’t remember the exact variety I started it from but I’m pretty sure it was an organic Hass.

For the majority of her life, she’s been in a pot and outside for the spring/summer/fall, and hauled inside for the winter. I planted it outside this year, as it was simply getting too big for indoors in a pot! From the ground it’s about 7-8 feet tall, and 5 feet wide (she lost some height in an accident while moving outdoors). But appears very happy in her new in ground spot, as she’s starting to explode with new growth.

Where I live our winter lows are usually in the mid 30s, but can briefly drop to 15-20 degrees F, which I know is too cold for avocados. But she’s outside and I’m not digging her up, so please help me help my baby through the winter! I know I’ll need to cover the tree during cold snaps, but what’s the best way to do so? Focus on keeping the trunk warm? Try to cover branches too? Blankets? Burlap sacs? Specific materials that work best? Please help because I don’t want this winter to be my avocado trees last one!

A couple weeks ago we had a crazy storm come through my region—high winds, tornado warnings—the works. We had a VERY large tree on the property I rent from go down during the storm. I’m not an expert, but the tree did not look rotted from the outside. With that said, after the tree fell down, you could see where the inside looked quite rotted. I recently found out that my downstairs neighbor has been throwing her dog’s poop right behind the tree for the last three years. This seems so silly, but could this cause over fertilization of a long established tree? Please don’t tease me for questioning this! 😅 I just know that over fertilization of house plants can cause them to die.

Note: the tree snapped at the base, where it meets the ground.

Thanks!

Not sure if this is tar spot or Phyllosticta. I know regardless of what it is it’s mainly cosmetic, just wanted to know exactly what the issue is.

Thanks!

Hello Treefolk,

This tree was in my backyard when I moved in 13 years ago in Michigan USA (and had likely been there for many years prior). Most of the trees in my backyard and the little nature preserve behind it are Walnut trees, which are much taller than this tree, and might be keeping it from getting a lot of light. My backyard is a full story lower than my front yard, so a fair amount of water drains down--so I don't believe it is a lack of water issue. A couple years ago I put up bird feeders using wire. At that time, I noticed that most of the left trunk was dead empty, but the rest of the tree was green and pretty full so I didn't think much of it. I used sections of old water hose to prevent the wire I was using from cutting into the tree/disturbing the bark. Last year I noticed a fair bit of dead on the right side of tree, but still quite a bit of healthy. This year there was even more dead, I noted a couple of bushes growing at the base, so I moved them as I thought perhaps they were stealing water/nutrients from the tree. There is also a ground hog that has lived near the base of the tree so there is a pretty deep den by the trunk, but that has lived there for years--unsure if that has harmed the tree or not. I went on vacation in July, and came back to most of the tree being dead except for a couple limbs toward the front of the picture. I do not water the tree beyond rain, so it wasn't like it went without water was I was gone. And perhaps no major changes happened while I was gone, except that I had gone two weeks without seeing it, so the die off that was already happening seemed more stark as I had missed two weeks of gradual dying process. When I removed the bushes at the base, I put in a couple of fertilizer spikes I had from many years ago when I had planted some bushes at a different home on the off chance that maybe the bushes had stolen nutrients or that the soil was low on something that the tree needed.

I realize things are very bad, and I might be posting a couple years too late, but can this tree come back? And if so, what do I need to do? Any idea what happened?

My best, really uneducated guesses are old age, or the Walnut trees around it grew taller/faster and eventually took a lot of the light the tree needed?

Thanks for any advice or ideas you can offer.

Southwestern PA, found this tree on campus. Looks tasty but I also don’t want to get poisoned. If it is a crab apple what species is it?

The tree was planted when the house was built in 1955, so it’s now over 70 years old. It’s the largest tree in the neighborhood, and I really love this tree!

My neighbors would like me to take it down because the needles and pollen are messy. I don't want to be a bad neighbor, but the pollen and needles have never bothered me, and I would hate to cut down such a beautiful tree simply because it can be messy.

I'm not quite sure what to do.

this is an incense cedar out in soap creek watershed in the stanilaus nat forest taken in mid 90s- be great to know its still out there- april's by stone in 1 photo for scale then sitting on top in 2nd photo

We have a tree on our property that has been in a fight with a fungal infection. It's still alive, and we have been helping it with some fungicide and pruning some very dead branches, and it has started to show signs of recovery (new leaves whereas before none were growing).

But there is a weird brown mass coming out from one of the branches, and we are unsure of what it is. Some results we found googling "brown goo on tree branch" suggested it might be tree sap and other strategies from the tree to help itself, but other sources suggested it might be a fungal body.

Any help would be appreciated. 🙇🏻‍♂️

EDIT: image of full tree, with location of bump circled in red: https://imgur.com/a/4FY6oH7

As you can see, it is very small.

Just moved into a new rental and it seems like this tree has not been taken care of a pruned at all in a very long time. It looks like a maple tree to me but I might be wrong I am not an expert. I went through it today and took out some of the completely dried and dead branches and basically twigs. Almost all the stuff in the picture you see you will snap with very little effort. Just looking for advice on how to try to prune in the healthiest way possible to encourage upward growth and a better shape overall. We are planning on living in this house for at least the next few years and I enjoy doing this kind of stuff I just am new to it and Google is very difficult to decipher with all of the different ways that I have read. Located in Sonoma county California USA. Currently on a sprinkler that goes 15 minutes every 3 days. But I can change that if needed.

66 inch trunk, 108 feet tall, 74.5 foot crown spread. 335 points on the champion tree score.

central Florida

This mango had finally fruited but I thought the 15 or so were too much for them so I took all off and left one to grow. So pretty.

Second occurrence in two months. It was really starting to get going on the cigarette butt mulch and storm water runoff.

You will be missed Bark Twain.

I received this weeping redbud in the mail from fast growing trees. I got it in the ground and will throw some mulch around it tomorrow.

Question is, do I prune it back to create offshoots at the top so it cascades/weeps? Right now its just a long whip.

I was doing yard work today and noticed this significant split. Can I pull it back together and splint it somehow or is this tree a goner?