Hi, my name is Blair Glenn. I am ISA certified Arborist and owner of Saratoga Tree Service.
I was asked to inspect a Weeping Willow in the front yard. The client stated that the tree appeared to be turning yellow and they are also concerned with possibility of bores.
My first observation is that a tree appears to have been planted fairly recently in the last year to and it probably -- I am guessing on this one, a tree that was planted from the fairly large container. It is still tightly bound to a constraint to keep it somewhat upright.
As you can see in this photograph, the stake, the nursery stake is still tightly bound to the tree and there is damage that is evident from this stake and a previous stake from the front side.
If you look closely at the bottom portion of this photograph, you can see an area, two lines where there was a binding, a strap that was holding this tree rigidly to a stake. It was left on their far too long.
Above this area, you can see a part of the trunk where it is actually expanding from an internal trunk canker. The cankers could very likely because from injuries from the actually from the nursery.
This is a problem. This was probably done by the homeowner to you help keep the trunk straight but this is doing more damage than good.
I look very closely at the base of the tree and there is some unusual staking going on here. The tree is fairly loosening the soil. The soil seems to be very soggy as well. I looked down this pipe here and it seems to be quite a bit of water still in the pipe.
The yellowing of the foliage in the inside could be likely because by excessive water. If that soil is not allow to dry out then you can have anaerobic state where the roots are basically -- there drowning. So, that is the guest here so I do not know the actual watering configuration but it did feel very, very wet.
And even closer look at the ground where the trunk goes into the base, you can see some swelling of the bark. That is an indicator that there is a trunk canker developing inside here. I did not seen evidence of bores, I do not see any evidence of insect frass or anything that will lead me to believe that it was insect relative problem. But my guess here is that they are numerous problems probably associated from the tree being in a pot to long, very likely it blew down and broke some roots, there are damages from the staking. All of these things are adding up and the injuries very likely or leading to some of these trunk cankers. If you look closely at this picture, you will see an area of swelling that is also a trunk canker.
So what do we do about it? We know that the tree has some internal problems, some crank canker problems. We know that there is some yellowing. We also know the tree has rooting problems either from the original potting of tree, being too big in the smaller pot as well as getting established.
So it has three strikes against it. Even if it survives, it is going to have long term problems developing.
I usually recommend in a you three like this that rather than to baby along a problem tree, it is better to start off with the better specimen and get a younger, smaller good tree to develop in this location.
So thanks for taking the time to view this brief presentation. Once again my name is Blair Glenn and I am a ISA certified Arborist.
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