I wish he was in Pa!!! Definitely knows what he’s talking about!!!!!

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No its Adderall !

Thanks. glad it helped!

Thanks Peter. You too!

Thanks Jesse!

Definetly a better idea to wait on the heavy duty pruning. We prune lightly all year, but if we are going to do heavy pruning, i.e. large % of the overall foliage, we try to wait until dormat season. Thanks!

Hey thanks so much for the sub and for reaching out. So can you do a crown reduction cut? Yes. Should not hurt the tree right now in its dormancy. However trying to keep that track from tree indoors is going to be very very very very difficult. The problem is it will not want to stay small. It's going to constantly allocate its growth outward and you're going to constantly be cutting it back which is going to create a constant stress on the tree. the same time he probably doesn't make much of a difference. You can simply keep it pruned, and continue pruning it, but what you definitely need to do is pick the shape that you want it to be at and then don't let it grow past that. You're not going to be able to prune this thing once per season. It's going to be more like every 2 weeks during the growing season or something like that. Literally you'll be doing Bonsai pruning and preventing it from growing out past the limits that you preset for it. Best of luck.

All trees grow different, but to help make sure its getting enough light and not underneath another tree. Trim limbs that are intertwined with each other and sucker limbs. It'll help get proper growth to the main areas. Like I said every tree grows different, why you see smaller grown oaks and bigger ones. I'm not a certified arborist, just a tree climber. That's just to my knowledge on what I would do trimming a tree for that reason.

I would never top a tree. Just cut it down. You're going to be asking for problems if you top it. It's not going to heal right and it's going to develop a decay pocket with in the trunk. I just cut it down and start over at a better location. Best of luck!

I agree;. I am not much of a bush prunnig person. :-)

LOL! Thanks for the thought! I will put it on silent in the future! :-)

Watching and doing are two different things.

Hi Melody, the way to fix Lion's Tail Lane is just to give it time and let the water sprouts that grow on the beam continue to grow. Other than that, there's not much you can do for it.

5 to 8 in in diameter is hard to prune because the cut face ends up being too big a lot of times. Instead leave the main branches, the big beams, and instead go up the beams and cut the smaller drop branches that are going toward the house. We called this shaving the beard, or trimming the beard. It's like you're cutting the smaller things but leaving the neck if you will. also you can go out to the chips and then one in three. to lighten the weight. That way your lightening the load, and getting the tree off of the house.into the cost of emergency tree removal

Unless you’re dealing with oak wilt or any other diseases spread during the growing season. I’d agree that late spring pruning is ideal in most situations (cool-enough days; leaves have hardened; time for the tree to respond, but not like a monster). This is especially true of most Prunus fruit trees. But winter pruning work is invaluable to be able to properly identify structure and defects.

Just shoot a video upload it to youtube, and then attach the link here. I'm happy to take a look at it. But I can tell you ahead of time, the likely answer is simply going to be to wait and see. No matter what that tree is going to try to grow back. Simply because living things try to live. Now the definition of how healthy it will be when it comes back is up for debate, but will it try to continue to live? Likely so. When you top out a tree, especially in the fall, all of the nutrients of the tree or at least most of it are going to be within its storage in the trunk and roots. So when the spring comes around and it starts pushing for new leaves, it will push out new twigs and buds to replace what was cut off. This is under the assumption that it is a deciduous leaf bearing tree. If it is something like a Leland Cypress or coniferous tree, then you're up the creek. They do not produce advantageous sprouts. Meaning once you cut behind the green, it's done. Anyway, feel free to upload a video and I'll take a look at it. Best of luck!

Sorry for the delay I have to ask my son to help me with the video upload 🤣

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Right? He did a line or an adderall before this video, Holy Shite!