Spencer Platt / Staff / Getty Images. All trees lose some branches during their lifetime and the wounds from these branch stubs usually heal. But when they heal too slowly or not at all, the tree ...

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In younger trees, codominant stems can be resolved by structural pruning to develop a single trunk. Developing a single trunk with one dominant leader starts by identifying the stem that will make ...

A tree that will grow to be more than 40 feet tall should have a single trunk well up into its canopy, but the trunk does not have to be arrow-straight.

If one branch breaks, the others are more likely to fail. Cavities, large decay pockets, and other evidence of decay: If you find cavities or decay where branches meet or at the base of the trunk ...

Q: What is your opinion about using branch spreaders to increase the crotch angle between the trunk and branches that are growing more upright than horizontal on a mountain ash tree?

Vijay47: In the entire jungle that is Umno, every tree is riddled with spores and blights, anthracnose and wetwood, and all manner of fatal diseases that fungicides cannot cure; the only treatment ...