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Posted: Aug/08/2005 5:07 PM PST

looks very positive!

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Posted: Aug/07/2005 5:35 PM PST

Don't you know it !!!
Here is an updated pic of one of the sickly willows. Much better although a bit naked . I think they may pull through it .

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Posted: Aug/01/2005 4:32 PM PST

Well if we could get prices like these for little bundles of cut stems, maybe we ought to be planting an acre or two. Cut the diseased stems off every year and ear a buck too.

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Posted: Aug/01/2005 10:27 AM PST

Normally you would rid the tree of cankers by prunning out the branch or fork that is infected. These look as if they have cankers pretty much down low on the main stems? You can always try.... I've been known to assess the situation wrongly on occasion. Actually i would try if i wanted to kieep em for the yard. the cost of trying is minimal. Sterilize your clippers between cuts.

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Posted: Aug/01/2005 10:29 AM PST

Oh yes, if I were the greenhouse operator....I would carefully inspect future aquisitions from whom ever supplied these.

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Posted: Jul/31/2005 7:59 PM PST

The greenhouse were I worked sent these home with me to see what I can do with them.
I know they were left extremely dry late Spring- I know they were fertilized when they were still stressed from leaf loss due to dryness. It was after they were fertilized that the blisters appeared on the trunks and stems.They have since been left dry over and over again for the past month while I was laid off.
2 of them have leaves now - but 5 are in this shape.
Is this a disease? Any advice?
Anybody know ?

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Posted: Aug/01/2005 1:57 AM PST

That's what I was afraid of ,Wes.
Do you think if I cut them back to the main trunk , keep them watered well in a partly shady area - that maybe the new growth will come in and possibly be healthy?
Or is the rule of thumb once infected with canker always infected?

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Posted: Jul/31/2005 10:23 PM PST

I would say that the drying out was the instigating problem. Unfortunately the stress seems to have predisposed the trees to some sot of chanker disease.... usually a fungus infection.... perhaps tip blight or willow scab. there a several othgers that infect willows. The normal treatment is to prune out and dispose of infected stems. these may be goners.

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Posted: Aug/01/2005 11:59 AM PST

Wes, these were the most beautiful trees when they came in. So much so that I had planned on buying one @ $50 . And I don't spend 50 bucks on a willow.They sell for $15 around these parts.
I was off for 2 days .When I came back in, I noticed the leaves were drying on the tops. I watered them super good , they bounced back - no problem.
Until I had another 2-3 days off.
These trees didn't have this when they came in - it happened after they were so mistreated and stressed.
I am trying to take care of them not for money , not for the owner of the greenhouse , not even to put in my own yard.But because they were so beautiful when they came in and this is tree abuse
The ones that the cankers are on the main trunk - I really don't think I can save but I'll try.
If I can get all the infected parts cut out and if they are kept up afterwards, watered every day it doesn't rain- can they be healthy trees?
That is the big question.
If it is just going to be a reoccuring disease then there isn't much point.Realistically, these are willows - in 2 years time I will not be able to reach the infected parts to cut them out.

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