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8a Pruning Mature Shade Trees
- 1. Colorado Master Gardener Training Pruning Mature Shade Trees
- 7. When removing dead branches, do NOT cut into callus tissue.
- 16. Don’t top trees. Topped trees become structurally unsound for life! Branch tissue when it grows with trunk/parent branch Branch tissue from epicormic growth
- 19. Epicormic shoot
- 20. Topping > Auxin removal
- 21. Topping >> the “Don King” look?
- 24. Pruning storm damaged trees
- 27. Pruning old trees with declining vigor
- 29. Pruning root damaged trees
- 31. Utility rights-of-way take priority over a tree’s appearance and health.
- 34. Aspen
- 35. Crabapple
- 38. How should you prune a mature tree?
- 39. A tree’s structural integrity is set for life by the training it receives while young.
- 40. U-prune with laser pointer
- 41. How did you do?