Tree Topping: A High risk Tactic

| Thursday, April 7, 2011
By Steven Jorgensenn


If you have recognized that the trees around your house are beginning to outgrow their space, you ought to contact a qualified arborist. Nonetheless, whenever you do, you must also know the method that can be taken to care for the trouble.

The topping of trees is an approach that is hazardous to the well being of a tree as well as to the potential safety of your home. Topping involves removing 50 to 100 percent of the leaf-bearing crown of a tree. This gives the appearance of a tree that has been reduced in size and for that reason provides a solution. In truth, it just causes extra difficulties.

When the leaves of a tree are taken out so rapidly, it stunts the feeding process of a tree. Leaves supply food and nutrients for a tree and without them, it can temporarily starve. So that you can survive, a tree will grow many shoots below every cut that was made so that you can produce new leaves, and new food, as soon as possible. A tree will likely be critically weakened and stressed by this process and could even die if it doesn't have the correct quantity of energy stored.

A stressed tree also increases its susceptibility to attacks from bugs and illnesses. Open cuts from pruning leaves a tree exposed and if it is already weakened, it may possibly not have the energy to fend off attacks.

Additionally, topping enhances the likelihood of decay. Because of where the cut is made - normally along a limb between lateral limbs, which produces stubs - the tissues of wood are exposed. Normally, a tree would be capable to protect itself against these wounds, but given the numerous severe wounds caused by topping, the tissues decay. This makes a tree weaker and much more vulnerable to being toppled during thunder storms or high winds, giving danger to your home.

The preferred site of a cut to your tree is just beyond the branch collar at the branch's point of attachment, a spot where a tree is biologically prepared to close the injury. Canopy raising, which opens up space underneath the canopy of a tree, and canopy thinning, which removes poor branches first and then other people to permit air and light to pass through, are two secure possibilities when trimming your tree. You need to never remove more than 25 percent of a tree's leaves in a given year.

Tree topping is not the answer whenever you have concerns over the size of your trees. When compared to other alternatives, it is dangerous and unnecessary.




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