That stinks! Mine looked just like the picture I posted. Same thing with the leaf drop, it happens very quickly which could be a good thing or a bad thing. Once they fall and you rake them up they are done. i loved the branch structure of the tree as wellI think we need an ISU alumni Minnesota trees happy hour!
I have a ginko in my yard. Was there when I moved in. It is the trunk on the right below. Left is red maple. Both trees were in the yard when I bought the place so no real tree selection happened here. Drops it's leave overnight or in a single day each year when we get a hard frost. Most years it never gets to yellow, just drops while still green.
Emerald Ash Borer
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Very common for a ginko to drop leaves all at once. Leaves on ours turn brilliant yellow before doing so. Leaf is very unique with a delta shape. Trees are slow growing. Ginkos are a very old species and seem to have out lived their pests/diseases.
Love the house and lawn Boxster!I think we need an ISU alumni Minnesota trees happy hour!
I have a ginko in my yard. Was there when I moved in. It is the trunk on the right below. Left is red maple. Both trees were in the yard when I bought the place so no real tree selection happened here. Drops it's leave overnight or in a single day each year when we get a hard frost. Most years it never gets to yellow, just drops while still green.
Wow. I need to start a tree treating business. You guys treating trees should do some research. The most popular chemicals for treating ash borer are imidacloprid and clothianidin. Those are the active ingredients in Gaucho and Poncho, probably the two most popular seed treatments for corn and soybeans. A gallon of Gaucho is a little under $500. A gallon of Gaucho would treat 42 average sized ash trees. There are some generic versions that would be cheaper yet. If you treat your trees with Gaucho it would be off label but if you could keep quite no one would know the difference.
The three house in a row on this little street in GV used to be ISU landscape archtiect (me); next house, ISU architect; and the next house past him, ISU architect. And, yes, all of their kids went to ISU to.
I've been looking a planting a hackberry to replace a dying maple at my place. Considering black gum or ginko as well, but am finding them to be cost prohibitive.
There's no way you should pay hundreds of dollars for treatment. It's relatively simple and anyone with a drill and a hammer can treat their trees every few years. It's $58 for a 75 pack of capsules and the amount of capsules to use depends on the size of the tree.
I'd strongly recommend anyone considering chopping their tree down to look at the following:
http://acecap-medicap.com/Application Guide/Application Guide.htm
Buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Acecap-75-Pac...8&sr=8-2&keywords=emerald+ash+borer+treatment
Assuming you have 2 hands, a hammer and drill this is far from rocket surgery.
I'd strongly recommend anyone considering chopping their tree down to look at the following:
http://acecap-medicap.com/Application Guide/Application Guide.htm
Buy it here: http://www.amazon.com/Acecap-75-Pac...8&sr=8-2&keywords=emerald+ash+borer+treatment
Assuming you have 2 hands, a hammer and drill this is far from rocket surgery.
I'd cut an ash tree down just because it is an ash tree. :wink: just over used and over planted. I would do the same for a Skyline honey Locust
I can buy a gingko tree for $60 and cut up the ash and have really good firewood:wink:
If it really is that cheap and easy, I think I'll just go with this plan since we'd very much miss the shade the two trees provide.
Thanks,
That's kinda my thought process, had I planted my own trees I wouldn't have chosen ash trees. However, they're pretty well grown and I love the shade and the windbreak and don't want to deal with ripping these out and planting new ones then waiting for them to grow. Setting a reminder on my calender every 2 years to spend 15 minutes to retreat them isn't that bad and these 75 capsules, assuming they don't expire should last me a fair amount.
There is only ONE treatment that works at a 95+%. It is the Treeage product. The chemical is Emamectin Benzoate. Must be injected every two years. It will protect your tree. All the other treatments will eventually fail or not work at all. Do the research.
I think a honey locust fell on tazclones car once. Or maybe he ran into the thorn of a native honey locust as a small child.
He may also be heavily invested in ginko futures.
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PS: Not fan of ash trees. I am just looking for an excuse to cut the one down in the front yard of my moms house in NE Iowa.
He may also be heavily invested in ginko futures.
:smile:
PS: Not fan of ash trees. I am just looking for an excuse to cut the one down in the front yard of my moms house in NE Iowa.
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Treeage is the one that works best, hands down. It's also the one that costs hundreds of dollars to have someone come and do. Either that or buying the whole kit (http://arborjet.com/products/view/arborjet_deluxe_kit) from a distributor and dealing with all that. ACECAP works well, just not 100% of the time. Yea if you're dead set on keeping that tree I'd hire a professional to do Treeage.
If you're thinking spending significantly less time and money and hassle and willing to accept a little more risk, ACECAP is the best thing out there that's not Treeage, and it costs a fraction of the cost. Nothing has shown that ACECAP will eventually fail that I've seen anywhere unless the EAB builds some sort of immunity to the pesticide?
:smile:No just don't like the mass planted trees. First it was elms because they were quick growing and nice so every development, City tree plans, business landscape plans used them and they were mass planted. When they died, LAs looked to the ash tree to fill the void, unknowingly or uncaringly creating the same monoculture that existed with the elm tree. Then the wonderful Skyline honey Locust(thornless btw) became the hot tree. You see it in every new development/streetscaping/ landscaping scheme. It is like LAs never learn.
I was at an Emerald Ash borer symposium once and the top LAs from Iowa and Nebraska were there talking about replacements etc...I asked them why they plant monocultures creating future problems. Three of them dropped their heads in shame and one stated, "we don't in our designs anymore but the industry is awful at finding a variety and over using it. it has to change but I am afraid it never will."
The LAs know what I am talking about. Goodness gracious. You guys are good. Be creative, mix it up once in a awhile :embarrassed: Some of it falls on the customer. They go to the mall and see a tree they like and that is what they want.
Plenty of trees out there and parking lots don't need to be all the same variety. no one notices differnet sizes and shapes once the trees are above 30 feet and 10-20% of the trees dies and are different sized anyway. Be creative, be original be good LAs
Sorry end rant