{"id":513,"date":"2020-02-15T15:39:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T21:52:16","slug":"oak-wilt-pruning-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Oak wilt Pruning Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oak wilt continues to be an issue throughout Austin, central Texas and much of the central part of the U.S.\u00a0 This often fatal disease is spread by a fungal organism known as Bretziella fagacearum (previously Ceratocystis f., but scientists often change organism names just to mess with us arborists!)\u00a0 Other than the name change, there&#8217;s little new about this disease, other than some news about DNA testing, but the likelihood of fast, accurate field test kits being available anytime soon is small.\u00a0 For more details on oak wilt, see my previous posts and my <a href=\"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/?page_id=52\">Oak Wilt Page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this time of year, whether you should or shouldn&#8217;t prune your oaks is quite forward in the minds of many neighborhood activists.\u00a0 You may have seen signs saying not to prune at this time of year.\u00a0 For years it has been recommended by various government agencies that one should avoid pruning oaks in the &#8220;spring&#8221;.\u00a0 The definition of spring has changed quite a bit over the years.<\/p>\n<p>My advice to homeowners is <!--more-->that if you have oaks that must be pruned in the spring, either because they have large dead branches, or branches hitting buildings or at risk of being hit over streets, sidewalks, etc., leave this type of pruning to <em>qualified and competent<\/em> arborists.\u00a0 Several years ago I organized a committee comprised of members from the TX Forest Service, TX Agricultural Extension (AgriLife) and ISA (commercial arborists) and we created these\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/texasoakwilt.org\/resources\/professional-literature\/pruning-guidelines-for-prevention\">oak wilt pruning guide lines<\/a>(they can also be found on the TFS oak wilt website.)<\/p>\n<p>These guidelines state that pruning of this nature can be done at any time.\u00a0 However, I think it is absolutely safest to leave pruning done during this time to <em>competent, qualified <\/em>arborists.\u00a0 To find out what that means, go to my choosing an arborist page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oak wilt continues to be an issue throughout Austin, central Texas and much of the central part of the U.S.\u00a0 This often fatal disease is spread by a fungal organism known as Bretziella fagacearum (previously Ceratocystis f., but scientists often &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/?p=513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treecarebyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}