Correctly Pruning Your Trees: 5 Things to Consider

If you want your trees pruned, you want a great thing, but before you get down to sawing, you need to make sure that it is done right, Our experts will offer you support to help maintain your trees and hedges healthy before, during and after pruning with the best services around the country.

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Here is what to consider when pruning:

1. Choice Of The Tree.

Not all trees can be pruned, and different trees need to be pruned differently depending on the age, species and health of your tree, Our experts can look at your tree and help you narrow down to the right options to avoid killing your trees.

Trees below five years of age have great healing abilities, as compared to old trees, if you want to start your pruning, you may want to stick to young trees unless necessary. The wrong choice of a tree may result in death to the tree, cause irreversible damage such as stem rot and also deny you the end result you seek.

Most indigenous trees around Dublin: Oak, Ash and willows can be pruned almost any age and still rejuvenate if the tree is in good health.

2. The Season For Pruning

You should be very careful on the time you choose to do your pruning, early autumn and late winter may be cold, but it is actually the right time to do it, at this time, pathogens are suppressed by the harsh weather and deciduous trees have excellent cell multiplication potential as they are prepared to sprout leaves in the fair weather, this endows them with great healing ability.

Around Dublin, many trees are deciduous and pruning them in this season is an excellent choice, because in the summer and spring, pathogens are active and wounding a tree in this season exposes it to disease and slow healing.

3. The Equipment To Use

Cutting a section of a tree should not harm to the rest of the tree for pruning to be effective, and you really want to use the right equipment for that. The equipment choice will depend on the caliper of the branches you want to cut.

You need sharp edges for equipment, and they should be easy to handle, Shears will do fine for small branches and saws for larger branches, they are not messy, a smooth cut heals faster than a messy one.

All equipment needs to be well sterilized before use for pruning. Around Ireland, many trees have died due to wrong use of equipment and poor handling, our experts will help you prevent this from happening to your trees by using the best equipment.

4. How to cut The Branches.

Dieback occurs when the cut is not made smoothly or not treated after pruning. Therefore a clean, smooth cut is essential. For small trees, give an allowance of 3-5 centimeters from the trunk before making a clean cut at 45 degrees. This allows for easy dressing and healing.

For large branches, one or two feet allowance from the trunk in enough, to avoid tearing the bark when the branch falls, cut halfway from below the branch then make the final cut from the top,

5. Treating The Wound

Oak wilt is popular around Ireland, and it is caused by insects attacking exposed wounds, you can dress the wound with wood paint after cutting or merely leave it if done right the spot will dry and the bark will spread and eventually cover the wound.

You could use insecticide, fungicide or ordinary wood paint if your area is facing related diseases but the natural healing is basically assured if pruning is done right, this is why our company will give you the best service from choosing a tree for pruning to its healing afterwards.

Good luck Pruning!

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