When a plant is diseased or wounded, it is often easier to cut out and remove the diseased portion of the plant instead of messing with chemical controls. This is especially true if you are dealing with a fruit or vegetable plant, which you would like to harvest chemical-free food from later. When cutting out [...]
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Tree Topping
What makes trees different from bushes is the presence of apical dominance. Apical dominance is the phenomenon where the highest bud on the plant continually receives the greatest concentration of growth hormone, thus trees grow tall while bushes do not. If you top a tree, the tallest or highest bud is removed so the tree [...]
Basic Distinction Between a Bacterial & Fungal Infection
Fungi are a more advanced creature then bacteria, thus fungi, in general, have more biologically advanced techniques for infection whereas bacteria tend to be more primitive. Consider an infection you may find on a leaf: does the infection spot cross over veins in the leaf and continue on the other side of the vein, or [...]
The Proper Way to Use Loppers
If you take a good look at a pair of loppers, the side of the blade that is slightly curved is the bevel side; the other side is flat. The flat side lies against the claw, and the bevel is on the outside. When pruning a tree using loppers, it is best to keep the [...]
Pruning Fruit Trees
Getting the Right Kind of Sugar out of Your Tree The basic idea: Fruit trees manufacture two main types of sugars: cellulose or fructose. Cellulose is a structural sugar meaning that it is the woody portion of the plant, used simply to give the tree its ability to stand and hold itself up. Fructose is [...]
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