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Trichocereus chiloensis
... , sometimes of many, arising from near the base, starting nearly at right angles to the main trunk but soon erect, up to 8 m tall, stems 10-12.5 cm in diameter ...
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Deciduous Fruit for North Florida
... following the first growing season, continue selecting scaffold limbs. Remove any shoots originating from the main trunk which are not needed for scaffold limb development. Cut back existing scaffold limbs slightly to ... During the growing season, rub off shoots which develop on the trunk and on scaffold limbs within 2 feet of the trunk. Mature pecan and persimmon trees require little pruning. It may ...
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Pruning and Training Deciduous Fruit Trees for the Dooryard
... shoots with wide crotch angles, preferably greater than 45°, evenly distributed radially around the trunk and vertically spaced 6" to 8" apart, to form the scaffold limbs. In ... growing season, continue selecting and developing scaffold limbs. Remove any shoots originating from the main trunk which are not neededfor scaffold development. Head back existing scaffolds slightly to encourage branching ...
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Pruning Lilacs
... the main trunk. Leave a few strong and healthy new stalks each year, especially if you are planning to trim back old wood. Trim back any branches that stick out from the main ... tall, If you prefer a wide bush, encourage shoots that have spread out from the main bush. Trimming Mature plants If a lilac bush has become overgrown, or is too large ...
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Guide to Birch Trees
... serpentine trail of darkened material. (Do not pare bark on the main trunk). The darkened material is excrement and can be flicked out ... above ground level. In a multi-trunked tree add all the trunk diameters together. Read the product label directions very carefully to determine ... the swelling expands it cuts off the water supply to the main trunk or branch, causing the death of the branch. A canker ...
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Prune Your Cedars Cautiously
... look very unattractive. In topping a pyramidal cedar, it is recommended that you prune the main trunk back no more than about 1/4 of the tree's height. The tree will ... again. For columnar cedars, follow the same topping procedure described above for each of the main trunks. Globe cedars will seldom fill in if they are topped excessively. Globe cedars that ...
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Transplanting Trees
... will one day have branches sweeping the ground 4 meters in all directions from the trunk can be very difficult. Unfortunately, we often don't recognize that a tree is destined ... closer to trunk than you will eventually be digging when the tree is moved, long unbranched roots will be broken. This prompts re-growth of new roots near the main trunk. It takes ...
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Hazard Trees: Why They Fall and How to Prevent More Damage
... unsound branch attachments. A tree branch can be attached to the trunk in one of two ways. Branches with strong connections will ... trunk at nearly right angles, are less subject to branch breakage. A great deal of wind damage can be prevented by proper pruning. On a large tree, main branches should be spaced at least a 15-20 cm apart on the main trunk. A narrower spacing than ...
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Calamites cisti -- the main stem.
... -like needles arranged in whorls around ends of the branches. Though reaching significant heights, the trunk lacked substantial mass, being composed mostly of pithy reed-like tissue, with about the strength ... sediments. The specimen shown above is a cast of the inner pith cavity of the main trunk. The vertical rib lines are characteristic of calamites. The nodes (small circular knots along the ...
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Cordaites trunk
... Cordaites trunk Cordaites trunk Rock Type: Sandstone Formation: Allegheny Interval: Middle Kittanning seam Age: Middle Pennsylvanian Period, approx. 301 ... one of the pith layers of the main trunk. This pattern may or may not have been visible at some point on the outside of the trunk itself. Location: Wayne County, West Virginia ...
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