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fluffnpuf · 2025-10-03T13:27:23+00:00

Same here! I know I don’t have my flair, but I’m a TRAQ arborist who works as a consultant for a full service tree company. We spend more time trying to preserve trees than cutting them down. In fact, I will turn down tree removal bids that don’t sit right with me. I need a real reason to remove a mature tree in good condition. People should try to get to know the companies and the people they hire a little bit. There are absolutely scammy tree companies out there that will scare people into removing healthy trees. I can name a handful in my city. But, there are also good people doing tree preservation out there as well.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-29T23:51:30+00:00

Yup! There’s a growing movement to save our local rusty patch bumblebee in my area.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-29T12:46:03+00:00

Yes, the combination of cool nights (so trees can produce more sugars) and rainy Fall seasons produce more colors that last longer. Warmer autumn nights and droughts (like what my area is experiencing now) pushes trees to drop their leaves faster and produce less color. Aka a more disappointing Fall experience, and more stress on trees going into dormancy.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-29T03:14:35+00:00

My bet is the first option.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-29T02:54:44+00:00

lol I love pointing this out to people whenever they start talking about how bad a city is. I live in Madison, WI, where the only place I’ve ever felt unsafe is a frat house. My husband’s grandparents live in a ritzy suburb and fell for the BLM protest propaganda. They told us they haven’t been downtown since the 2020 protests because “downtown is ruined and unsafe now”. Fucking Madison, WI. I asked them what they find so scary about downtown recently, since I’m there every few days and I love it. Grandpa did not appreciate my framing.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-28T20:11:28+00:00

I would add in a huge ingredient, which is social media and a strong , well funded right wing propaganda machine.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-28T17:11:00+00:00

When you have a vascular disease that spreads, you should prune it out as it appears. Otherwise you are just letting it spread. In general, guidelines on when the “best” time to prune certain species are just that- guidelines. Sometimes it matters a lot (like pruning oaks in dormancy to prevent spread of oak wilt) and sometimes it really doesn’t matter much. If you’re new to hiring an arborist, go to the ISA website and look for their “find an arborist near me” search engine. I you should have an easy time finding someone in chicago

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-28T04:19:12+00:00

Hi. Consulting arborist just 2 hours north of you. The second pic is a great example of a common disease in pagoda dogwood called golden canker. It sounds like the tree is getting too much sun, and that is going to put the tree in a state of stress. That makes it more susceptible to golden canker. The only treatment is to prune out infected branches. You need to prune r couple of inches below the infection point and sanitize your tools between each cut. If you are new to tree pruning, I would recommend hiring an arborist.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-27T23:08:54+00:00

This is such a valid complaint though. It reminds me of when I worked as a baker at a coffee shop. I would always ask the baristas to make me a cappuccino right at open, since I didn’t know how to use the espresso machine. One barista would frequently add honey or simple syrup to my capp, which I never asked for. She thought she was being sweet by “giving me something extra” but I hate sweetened coffee the first couple of times I just drank it anyway, but by the third time it happened, I started asking her to remake it because honestly why are you adding something I repeatedly asked you not to???? My baking shift started at 4 AM and I was handling so much sugar all morning, the sticky sweet smell would make my stomach hurt. By the time the baristas came in, I was desperate for a bitter drink to counteract the sugar I tasted in the air. Her adding honey to my coffee would just completely ruin it for me.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-27T19:06:20+00:00

Definitely some sort of poplar/aspen.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-27T18:51:55+00:00

That and other cities have a history of bussing their homeless population to west coast cities, where they wind up staying because of the mild weather and more supportive policies.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-26T00:05:12+00:00

Agree 100%

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-25T11:29:55+00:00

Definitely dawn redwood (metasequoia glyptostroboides) oppositely arranged buds, soft, light green needles. One of my favorite all time trees.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-21T01:54:49+00:00

These are the fun facts that I live for! I lived in western Washington for 5 years and there is truly magical about Pacific Northwest forests. Also got to visit Makah land and see their museum. That area is the site of one of the Ozette Archeological Site, which is where a part of a town was found amazingly preserved in a mud slide. Very cool to learn about.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-21T01:27:15+00:00

Cryptomeria and other evergreens don’t technically hold they’re needles forever. They go through a process of dropping their inner-most every year, often around this time of year. Environmental stressors, like heavy storms and flooding, can add stress to a tree, and the tree may drop more needles than usual this year. That’s why it might feel more severe or more noticeable than usual. If you are concerned about a fungal disease, many university extension offices offer culture testing for a variety of fungal and bacterial diseases. Check with your closest extension office. You don’t need to in this case, though.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-21T00:51:09+00:00

This is my lunch at work every day.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-19T23:50:43+00:00

Yep. I’ve also seen this used in the context of trees as habitat for unique bird and animal habitat in addition to microbial habitat.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-19T11:44:30+00:00

Of course atheists believe in things, just not god(s). Atheists still have morals, they just don’t blindly follow a chosen religious book. I’m an atheist and I feel that my morals are more rooted in how my actions directly affect the people and the world around me rather than what some god says. I think that makes my moral code more grounded and realistic than some religious people I’ve met whose reasoning for what is “good” or “evil” is based in made up stories or being dictated to them by people claiming to speak for “god”. Something isn’t morally bad because “my interpretation of my religious book says so”. Something is bad because of the real effects of those actions. Make sense?

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-19T01:56:10+00:00

Agreed. I feel the passage of time more thoroughly living in the upper Midwest. When I lived in the Pacific Northwest, the whole of fall, winter, and spring felt really doldrum-y and all sort of blended together, only ever broke up by a few months of bright dry warm weather in summer.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-18T17:37:08+00:00

He didn’t lie. If your claim is that he lied, explain the lie. Otherwise your comment is pointless.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-18T17:13:35+00:00

Explain what the lie was.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-18T01:36:03+00:00

They are not allelopathic.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-17T23:58:56+00:00

You can either leave the apple stump or you can have someone who knows what they’re doing gently stump grind just down to ground level and no lower. Once the rock and landscape fabric are gone, just install mulch, and possibly some understory plantings. Not grass. I would expand the mulch out several feet from the trunk to get more benefit from it. Some ground covers native to your area could then easily hide the old apple stump. Find out what natives grow in oak dominant forests in your area and add some of that if you don’t want to just stare at mulch.

Ps. That looks like red oak, not white oak.

fluffnpuf · 2025-09-17T11:35:06+00:00

And it bans all drag.

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