@robertsandtrees
25Tree realist – caffeine fiend, Yeti owner, beer enthusiast, part time blogger and arboricultural consultant
steemit.com/@robertsandtreesVOTING POWER100.00%
DOWNVOTE POWER100.00%
RESOURCE CREDITS100.00%
REPUTATION PROGRESS0.00%
Net Worth
0.019USD
STEEM
0.000STEEM
SBD
0.025SBD
Effective Power
5.010SP
├── Own SP
0.125SP
└── Incoming DelegationsDeleg
+4.885SP
Detailed Balance
| STEEM | ||
| balance | 0.000STEEM | STEEM |
| market_balance | 0.000STEEM | STEEM |
| savings_balance | 0.000STEEM | STEEM |
| reward_steem_balance | 0.000STEEM | STEEM |
| STEEM POWER | ||
| Own SP | 0.125SP | SP |
| Delegated Out | 0.000SP | SP |
| Delegation In | 4.885SP | SP |
| Effective Power | 5.010SP | SP |
| Reward SP (pending) | 0.028SP | SP |
| SBD | ||
| sbd_balance | 0.000SBD | SBD |
| sbd_conversions | 0.000SBD | SBD |
| sbd_market_balance | 0.000SBD | SBD |
| savings_sbd_balance | 0.000SBD | SBD |
| reward_sbd_balance | 0.025SBD | SBD |
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| id | 981414 |
| rank | 364,558 |
| reputation | 752331900 |
| created | 2018-05-10T04:37:36 |
| recovery_account | steem |
| proxy | None |
| post_count | 7 |
| comment_count | 0 |
| lifetime_vote_count | 0 |
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| last_post | 2019-03-15T20:26:00 |
| last_root_post | 2019-03-15T20:26:00 |
| last_vote_time | 2018-07-07T21:36:51 |
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| delegated_vesting_shares | 0.000000 VESTS |
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| vesting_balance | 0.000 STEEM |
| vesting_withdraw_rate | 0.000000 VESTS |
| next_vesting_withdrawal | 1969-12-31T23:59:59 |
| withdrawn | 0 |
| to_withdraw | 0 |
| withdraw_routes | 0 |
| savings_withdraw_requests | 0 |
| last_account_recovery | 1970-01-01T00:00:00 |
| reset_account | null |
| last_owner_update | 1970-01-01T00:00:00 |
| last_account_update | 2018-05-10T05:23:00 |
| mined | No |
| sbd_seconds | 0 |
| sbd_last_interest_payment | 1970-01-01T00:00:00 |
| savings_sbd_last_interest_payment | 1970-01-01T00:00:00 |
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}Withdraw Routes
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To Date
steemdelegated 4.885 SP to @robertsandtrees2026/05/18 05:48:15
steemdelegated 4.885 SP to @robertsandtrees
2026/05/18 05:48:15
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 7940.105473 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #106150079/Trx bda6d152f1e3f0f7d41350b2050234af91ce2602 |
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}steemdelegated 3.216 SP to @robertsandtrees2026/05/13 02:23:57
steemdelegated 3.216 SP to @robertsandtrees
2026/05/13 02:23:57
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 5227.895068 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #106002720/Trx 1b4bd3df76127ee5e64ca34727017319970f8322 |
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}steemdelegated 4.893 SP to @robertsandtrees2026/04/26 05:00:42
steemdelegated 4.893 SP to @robertsandtrees
2026/04/26 05:00:42
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 7952.621229 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #105517577/Trx c32854f2af7902ce8a36fc548e0e1e80e17771d1 |
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}steemdelegated 3.242 SP to @robertsandtrees2026/01/23 22:43:45
steemdelegated 3.242 SP to @robertsandtrees
2026/01/23 22:43:45
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 5269.441887 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #102869694/Trx 5fe76f633ef6b606f6a2cb8741097d954c4817e1 |
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}steemdelegated 3.343 SP to @robertsandtrees2024/12/17 17:54:33
steemdelegated 3.343 SP to @robertsandtrees
2024/12/17 17:54:33
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 5433.661084 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #91315923/Trx ff42510361c39afca8ea0905891069484dbaf93e |
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}steemdelegated 3.447 SP to @robertsandtrees2023/11/14 09:35:48
steemdelegated 3.447 SP to @robertsandtrees
2023/11/14 09:35:48
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 5602.794616 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #79870075/Trx 2186a45a2220a3402cdb6fcaf4a9fd10f25a9153 |
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}steemdelegated 5.254 SP to @robertsandtrees2023/09/22 09:49:18
steemdelegated 5.254 SP to @robertsandtrees
2023/09/22 09:49:18
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 8539.703402 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #78362183/Trx edd3d49243f834bfcf7cb6b9c14788898bbb5f7b |
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}steemdelegated 5.390 SP to @robertsandtrees2022/11/03 17:21:15
steemdelegated 5.390 SP to @robertsandtrees
2022/11/03 17:21:15
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 8761.754840 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #69120010/Trx 1325ce94c190987fdca56f0afa44a60d55981459 |
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}steemdelegated 5.526 SP to @robertsandtrees2022/01/17 22:36:03
steemdelegated 5.526 SP to @robertsandtrees
2022/01/17 22:36:03
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 8981.862441 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #60823316/Trx 66b9990dd2c7ddf07971d30c2b4dde1db9f6bc32 |
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}steemdelegated 5.639 SP to @robertsandtrees2021/06/14 05:48:12
steemdelegated 5.639 SP to @robertsandtrees
2021/06/14 05:48:12
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 9166.056729 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #54613667/Trx 2c1649906004202ce42858f83cbf69288f4212a0 |
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}steemdelegated 5.755 SP to @robertsandtrees2020/12/11 16:00:51
steemdelegated 5.755 SP to @robertsandtrees
2020/12/11 16:00:51
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 9353.478703 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #49360942/Trx 028de50ef37c0825a6e9900add70c2304dc8e2b3 |
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}steemdelegated 1.177 SP to @robertsandtrees2020/12/06 09:36:51
steemdelegated 1.177 SP to @robertsandtrees
2020/12/06 09:36:51
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 1912.543513 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #49212474/Trx e451a37446c30f4e11b14beea0482f88db6afb85 |
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}steemdelegated 5.758 SP to @robertsandtrees2020/12/05 19:38:54
steemdelegated 5.758 SP to @robertsandtrees
2020/12/05 19:38:54
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 9359.686557 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #49196030/Trx 3834c330d22d0ebd37bc0074ba6e2dfcc8438a43 |
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}steemdelegated 1.181 SP to @robertsandtrees2020/11/03 01:50:03
steemdelegated 1.181 SP to @robertsandtrees
2020/11/03 01:50:03
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 1920.017158 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #48269805/Trx bc244786694d80a0a6adb5de110d394416b5f31b |
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steemdelegated 5.883 SP to @robertsandtrees
2020/05/09 10:39:27
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 9562.491916 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #43222795/Trx 0931985cd4cc89d5a476ce6711a86076eca68c1f |
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}steemdelegated 1.202 SP to @robertsandtrees2020/05/08 14:59:54
steemdelegated 1.202 SP to @robertsandtrees
2020/05/08 14:59:54
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 1953.311140 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #43199763/Trx 8656ab408a621a54ed0134fcb3fef04408137772 |
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}steemdelegated 6.000 SP to @robertsandtrees2019/06/14 21:01:09
steemdelegated 6.000 SP to @robertsandtrees
2019/06/14 21:01:09
| delegatee | robertsandtrees |
| delegator | steem |
| vesting shares | 9751.750166 VESTS |
| Transaction Info | Block #33802297/Trx 107a4a48877e4f16e73b62664758aa53386f9b80 |
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2019/05/10 07:54:39
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: size-matters-measuring-new-zealand-s-tallest-tree
2019/03/15 20:26:00
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| body | The tallest tree in New Zealand grows quietly in the Orokonui Ecosanctuary, just north of Dunedin. It (she), doesn’t have the grandeur or the mana of Tane Mahuta and his whanau, even though she would tower 30m (100ft) or more above them. She is a slender wee thing (relatively speaking), yet she is not graceful like kahikatea, or cultured like rimu, she is a new-comer, she is Australian. New Zealand’s tallest tree is a mountain ash, (Eucalyptus regnans) and for many years she sat silently robbed of her title. The previous tallest recorded tree was as another mountain ash less that 500 metres way – the Frank Pepers tree. In 1982 Frank Pepers was working for the NZ Forest Service. He was measuring trees in the Orokonui Valley, and he singled out a tall tree; one of many tall trees, surrounded by tall trees. He measured this tree and the record was set. The Frank Pepers tree was the tallest tree in New Zealand. His tree was climbed and measured several times over, and at 77m (250ft) tall, you wouldn’t call it short – unless you were taller. In 2012, American tree surveyors from Washington State – the home of the giant coastal redwoods, (Sequoia sempervirens) came to visit the Frank Pepers tree. They saw, they measured and they singled out another tall tree; one of many tall trees, surrounded by tall trees. Their tree was taller – this tree, our tree, was 80.5m (265ft) tall; the record was re-set. But how tall is it now, is she getting taller and what could be seen from the top? Our tree is in Orokonui Ecosanctuary. The sanctuary is an active conservation zone and a successful breeding ground for many rare and endangered native species. The sanctuary is about 307 hectares and completely enclosed by a pest exclusion fence. Head ranger Elton Smith pointed out that pest exclusion is the ideal, but predator proofing can never be achieved; ‘by creating a successful ecosystem we face the reality of natural predation, we had a situation where kiwi were finding and eating tuatara eggs - we are still not sure how we measure success in a situation like that’. Our tree is about a 45 minute walk from the visitors centre down into the valley below. On a beautiful spring morning three time International Tree Climbing Champion Scott Forrest and a committed crew of young arborists from the Otago polytechnic went into the sanctuary to measure her. Scott was in Dunedin, having just won his fifth national tree climbing title at the 2018 NZ Arboriculture Association Husqvarna National Tree Climbing Championships. You don’t just rock-up and climb a tree like this one, it requires permission, gear checks, safety plans, several hundred metres of climbing line, an extremely long tape measure and an enormous slingshot.  We were dropped off at the bottom of the sanctuary and made our way in. As technical climbs go, it is not that hard, she is just big. It took us about 40 minutes to set a line over the first branch (35.3m above the forest floor). It was always going to be a multi-pitch climb, so once we got into the canopy additional access lines were installed and climbing lines were hauled up. We used single-line access techniques to ensure minimal damage was caused and once we got to point where the branches were too thin to support us, the tape measure was attached to a stick and lifted to the very top. 82.25 metres from tip to toe, and unlike from the top of the Frank Pepers tree there is a view. The bird song was amazing and the sense of connection was remarkable. Then down we went, job done. She is indeed a notable tree, at 82.25m (275ft)she is still growing and by the look of her there is nothing to suggest she will slow down anytime soon. |
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: pruning-by-numbers
2018/12/01 02:54:24
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| body | For the past few months I have been writing pruning specifications, or more correctly I have been removing pruning specifications. I’d love to say it's a less-is-more situation, but I’ve actually been writing more to inform the reader of less – why less is good. Arboricultural pruning specifications; cleaning, thinning, lifting, seem to date back to the time of pruning-paste; back when we did things because what is what we did. Science came along and put a stop to pruning-paste, and that was good. Science was the excuse everybody was looking for, but in reality, it was a mucky job that nobody liked doing. But cleaning, thinning, lifting were different, they were easy jobs with obvious results, jobs that could be explained away without science; ‘yes, yes the wind can now pass through’, ‘no, no we always remove the dead, dying, diseased, crossing, and internal branches’, or ‘yes, yes just a little bit higher and it will look like a tree again’. It is not like the literature (the science) wasn’t there to say that sort of work wasn’t helping the tree, but these jobs were low-hanging-fruit; value for effort for income, these were the jobs to do – and rightly or wrongly arborists did them. An arborist by definition is a person who cares for trees in order to preserve them – one could argue that the only thing being preserved by cleaning, thinning and lifting trees, is the supply of work but that would be a little misleading. Pruning specifications on cleaning, thinning and lifting still exist, so one can’t put all the blame on the arborist – there is an expectation on the arborist to do the work, and for that those that want the work done there is misguided belief that these practices are actually good for the tree. This is a case of supply and demand – but those that demand, are demanding the wrong things. By removing the dead, dying, diseased, crossing, and internal branches (crown cleaning) the arborist will most likely expose the internal branch structure to more light, and this can stimulate dormant buds (in trees that have them). Those buds will grow into shoots and within a few years there will be dead, dying, diseased, crossing, and internal branches. So, the tree owner needs to get an arborist in, and around and around we go. The net result is that the client gets to spend money, the arborist gets work and the trees get a cycle of wounding with limited periods of recovery. For trees that don’t have dominate buds, the work most likely changes the internal conditions inside the canopy to such an extent that it will generate more, dead, dying, diseased and internal branches. So, the tree owner needs to get an arborist in again, and around and around we go – but this time the tree doesn’t get a cycle of wounding with limited periods of recovery, the tree gets a cycle of wounding leading to an increase of branch failure (multiple pruning events force the foliage out towards the branch ends, the branches become tip heavy and start to fail). And then there is thinning. By removing selected internal branches to let the wind through (thinning), you are actually removing the trees ability to dissipate the kinetic energy (movement by wind and other forces). The net result is increased wind loading on the branches that remain, and most likely an increase of branch failure – thinning to lessen the chances of branch failure, is more likely to lead to an increase of branch failure. And if the thinning is done to increase light… see above for stimulated dormant buds and a cycle of spending, work and tree harm. Lifting is something else, but I’m not sure what. Lifting; removing the lower branches to keep the natural form and balance of a tree, has to be one of the silliest specifications ever written. What this specification is actually saying is; ‘make the tree look like a lollypop because that is what trees actually look’. Maybe the original author of this specification was having a psychedelic experience, or maybe natural forests of lollypop trees exist, and I am yet to find them – who knows. But see above with foliage getting pushed [out] up towards the branch ends, becoming [tip] top heavy then failing - the cycle of spending, work and tree harm and/or stimulated dormant buds (on the trunk) and a cycle of spending, work and tree harm. We could also add in increased chances of root-plate failure, torsional loading and shear-plane cracks, but you get the picture.  So, what am I specifying in my less-is-more pruning specifications? Obviously, the statutory stuff remains, clearances over roads and footpaths, clearances from power lines and traffic signs are what they are and a simple reality of urban trees. Having big bits of deadwood fall on people is also problematic (even though the chances of it ever happening are extremely unlikely). Most deadwood is actually beneficial, so I only recommend removal of the larger bits above places where harm and/or the associated outrage could occur - associated outrage, being the ‘it could have killed my child, if I had one, and if it was there at the time… but I don’t and it wasn’t, but it could have if it was, so you need to cut all of your trees down – because trees kill babies’. I don’t recommend generic cleaning, thinning, because apart from mostly harming the tree, they don’t tend to achieve the result the tree owner wants – maybe in the short term, but almost never in the long term. Good arboricultural practice (what I am recommending) is mostly, leave it alone (do nothing) or use branch end reduction to get the results you are after. Branch end reduction is exactly as it sounds – reducing the length of the branches by removing the ends. The internal branches are retained, and the arborist works from the outside, back in – by keeping the internal branches there is something to dissipate the kinetic energy, and the chances of stimulating dormant buds are reduced. I do recommend formative pruning, for those that have a form, purpose or plan in mind, otherwise, formative pruning for formative pruning sake is just tree cutting. The biggest problem I find in recommending branch end reduction, is that most trees of any age have been cleaned and thinned, several times over – so finding branches to reduce back to can be quite difficult. The other problem – which really isn’t a bad thing, is that the skill level required to undertake branch end reduction work is greater than the skill required to clean and thin (gut) or lift; so, specifying reduction work limits the work to skilled arborists – so not a bad thing. So, I have been writing pruning specifications so those that demand work, and those that do the work can start caring for trees in order to preserve them. |
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: into-the-rabbit-hole
2018/07/07 21:26:57
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| body | I love the fact that trees don’t read books and that the laws of nature don’t always seem to apply to nature. I love this, and seemingly to serve as a constant reminder, I have an illiterate disobedient tree in my back yard. It is a cutting from an old apple tree. The parent tree is so old that nobody is quite sure what it is – is comes from a time when fruit trees had great names; Peas-good-nun-such and Broxwood Foxwhelp. Several years ago, we took five cuttings from the parent tree and I have one of these bound and lashed to my side fence. Espalier – oh the indignity. What makes my tree the ultimate non-conformer is that it is completely out of sync with the parent plant and its four sisters – it has become the black sheep of the genetically identical family. It retains its leaves for months longer that the rest of them – it has just gone past the shortest day, and it still has leaves on. Positioning and situational variance could account for some of that, but the other sisters and the mother plant, all shed their leaves and break their buds as if they were still one – which in a way they are, even though they grow in different places miles apart. Clearly something bad must have happened to my apple tree, some trauma, some life changing event; maybe my tree had gotten in with the wrong crowd? Maybe my tree had been switched at grafting… After an entire minute of consideration, maybe two but I doubt three (it is just an apple tree after all), I decided that my genetically identical family was not actually genetically identical, and the answer was the root-stock. We took cuttings from the parent tree and had them grafted onto root-stock. Obviously, there was something about the root-stock used on my tree that was different from all the rest. Problem solved. Almost. I’m not sure when or even why I started thinking about this again, but I did and the more I did the less logical my solution seemed; what have roots got to do with leaf senescence? How can a root-stock, which has been ‘blinded’ [as had all of its buds cut out], which holds virtually no photosynthetic tissue and by default mainly exists under the ground influence when the leaves fall off the tree? Problem not solved. The answer turns out to be hormones and in particular abscisic acid and cytokinin. These particular hormones (and we are talking hormones in the widest sense and classes of hormones) just happen to be produced in the roots. We use to think abscisic acid (ABA) controlled abscission – after all that is how it got its name. But the current school of thought is that ABA has more to do with environmental protection and dormancy than the shedding of parts (abscission). Cytokinin, control a bunch of things including senescence (biological ageing). Cytokinin move from roots to leaves, and if produced in high enough qualities can contribute to the delay of senescence. When the translocation of ABA from roots to shoots is blocked or slowed, the onset of leaf senescence can be retarded. Put these together and we get a tree that retains its leaves. Positioning and situational/environmental variance influence the production of ABA – cytokinin stops the leaves from growing old - the longer the tree maintains leaves the longer those leaves can produce energy. Problem solved. But, now I have a new problem. Why. Why does my plant retain its leaves? Is it under so much environmental pressure that it is intentionally retaining photosynthetic tissue in a desperate attempt to survive, or is it seated in some kind of environmental wonderland where it has no need to shed photosynthetic tissue because it can grow for as long as it wants to? Why does the answer to every question produce more questions? Where will this rabbit hole go, and do I want to go there? |
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2018/07/07 21:26:27
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: into-the-rabbit-hole
2018/07/07 21:25:03
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| body | I love the fact that trees don’t read books and that the laws of nature don’t always seem to apply to nature. I love this, and seemingly to serve as a constant reminder, I have an illiterate disobedient tree in my back yard. It is a cutting from an old apple tree. The parent tree is so old that nobody is quite sure what it is – is comes from a time when fruit trees had great names; Peas-good-nun-such and Broxwood Foxwhelp. Several years ago, we took five cuttings from the parent tree and I have one of these bound and lashed to my side fence. Espalier – oh the indignity. What makes my tree the ultimate non-conformer is that it is completely out of sync with the parent plant and its four sisters – it has become the black sheep of the genetically identical family. It retains its leaves for months longer that the rest of them – it has just gone past the shortest day, and it still has leaves on. Positioning and situational variance could account for some of that, but the other sisters and the mother plant, all shed their leaves and break their buds as if they were still one – which in a way they are, even though they grow in different places miles apart. Clearly something bad must have happened to my apple tree, some trauma, some life changing event; maybe my tree had gotten in with the wrong crowd? Maybe my tree had been switched at grafting… After an entire minute of consideration, maybe two but I doubt three (it is just an apple tree after all), I decided that my genetically identical family was not actually genetically identical, and the answer was the root-stock. We took cuttings from the parent tree and had them grafted onto root-stock. Obviously, there was something about the root-stock used on my tree that was different from all the rest. Problem solved. Almost. I’m not sure when or even why I started thinking about this again, but I did and the more I did the less logical my solution seemed; what have roots got to do with leaf senescence? How can a root-stock, which has been ‘blinded’ [as had all of its buds cut out], which holds virtually no photosynthetic tissue and by default mainly exists under the ground influence when the leaves fall off the tree? Problem not solved. The answer turns out to be hormones and in particular abscisic acid and cytokinin. These particular hormones (and we are talking hormones in the widest sense and classes of hormones) just happen to be produced in the roots. We use to think abscisic acid (ABA) controlled abscission – after all that is how it got its name. But the current school of thought is that ABA has more to do with environmental protection and dormancy than the shedding of parts (abscission). Cytokinin, control a bunch of things including senescence (biological ageing). Cytokinin move from roots to leaves, and if produced in high enough qualities can contribute to the delay of senescence. When the translocation of ABA from roots to shoots is blocked or slowed, the onset of leaf senescence can be retarded. Put these together and we get a tree that retains its leaves. Positioning and situational/environmental variance influence the production of ABA – cytokinin stops the leaves from growing old - the longer the tree maintains leaves the longer those leaves can produce energy. Problem solved. But, now I have a new problem. Why. Why does my plant retain its leaves? Is it under so much environmental pressure that it is intentionally retaining photosynthetic tissue in a desperate attempt to survive, or is it seated in some kind of environmental wonderland where it has no need to shed photosynthetic tissue because it can grow for as long as it wants to? Why does the answer to every question produce more questions? Where will this rabbit hole go, and do I want to go there? |
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: not-with-the-blue-grease
2018/05/21 05:19:12
| author | robertsandtrees |
| body | Many years ago, I met a horse whisperer. I was flying first-class and it was the first time I had been up-front during a long-haul flight. It was an upgrade of an upgrade and I was thoroughly enjoying the experience - as one does when is served pre-take off cocktails while deciding upon wines for the various meals you are about to receive. Next to me, on this flight was a horse whisperer, I recall thinking that not only were horse whisperers real, but they flew first-class. Obviously. The horse whisperer was on his way to Hawaii at the request of the king or some distant descendent thereof. This all made sense at the time. From there the cocktails flowed and things became properly surreal; my horse whisperer was able to remotely heal animals, and when he didn’t have an internet connection he could use ley-lines, and luckily (for the sick animals) we flew over several. Once we landed, he was met by a chauffeur and was driven away, and I returned to the real world and joined the back of the taxi cue. Normality restored, but dented… What’s this got to do with trees – nothing really, except to point out that the world is a crazy place. Sometimes things happen that can’t be easily explained (horse whispering), and sometimes things happen that should be stopped (remote healing via ley-lines). Yesterday I read in the paper that the ‘council will remove the trees when they get too big and become dangerous’. Eek, a big tree is just a big tree, it is only a little person that thinks something is dangerous just because its big. I then spoke to my mother about winter fertilising and tried to dissuade her, I requested that she just sent me her fertiliser spend, because giving me the money would do as much for her plants as her fertilising them in winter, and it would be better for the environment (especially if she sent the money electronically). And then I see this…  It is beyond crazy when someone thinks applying grease to a pruning cut will somehow stop it from being a bad cut. And surely nobody actually still believes that applying petroleum products to plants will somehow heal them – haven’t they heard about oil-spills and the damage they cause? Much of the old-school quaintness around wound treatments on plants came about through some misguided anthropomorphic belief system; ‘if it works for us, then it has to work for the plants too’. I’m not sure I could follow that logic – plants and humans being somewhat different… but even so, how many people put a bit of petrol on a cut, or rub some axle-grease into a wound? [If you do – stop it! It’s silly] Much of the old-school quaintness around fertilising in winter comes from the time when winter was the time to get jobs done, – they would dig-in their green crops and manure to prepare the soil for spring. That was then, now we can pop into the garden centre at any time and two hours later we can be loading up the soil. The issue with fertilising in winter is that in winter our plants are mostly dormant, their metabolism has slowed and they are not taking much if anything from the soil. So when fertiliser is added to the soil the vast majority of it will simply wash away with the rain. The world is indeed a crazy place - I do like the crazy, but the silliness has to stop. |
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: the-consciousness-of-trees
2018/05/15 03:01:24
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| body |  We have known for many years that trees communicate with each other, that their responses to insect and/or animal attack can be picked up by other trees. We know that the attacked tree can send out warning signals to other trees and these signals can be very specific; e.g. they can differentiate between leaf eating and sap sucking, and between insect and animal attack. The mechanics behind this are surprisingly straight forward and work well in a forest situation. This form of response communication is also surprisingly fast. Grazing animals have been observed lunching on every other tree and not chewing from one tree to the next; the theory being that by the time the animal has finished chomping on one tree the neighbouring tree knows what is coming and has already pumped its leaves full with less tasty substances. We know that trees help each other. Nutrient sharing takes place, mainly between trees of the same species but inter-species help is also not uncommon. It would be nice to think that trees are caring beings and look after their neighbours because of some sense of ‘natural goodness’; but we suspect that is not the case. Nutrient sharing also typically takes place in a forest situation. The theory being that a forest functions as a ‘super organism’, a single living entity that just happens to be made up of thousands if not millions of separate living things. By helping your neighbours, you help yourself – the forest canopy stays intact, pests and diseases don’t get a chance to establish and the super organism remains strong. The odd thing about nutrient sharing is that it seems to be controlled by fungus (the mycorrhizal fungi living on or in the roots), which poses the question; who or what is in really in control of the super organism? The other interesting thing about nutrient sharing is that it doesn’t seem to happen as much in planted/commercial forestry or in agricultural cropping situations. One theory there is that the addition of fertiliser (particularly phosphates) kills off the naturally occurring soil flora. So, we know that trees communicate with each other [in a forest situation at least]. We know how this happens and we can guess why – but these forms of communication don’t involve sound, so we can’t really call it talking and it would be a stretch to call it a form of non-verbal communication as well. But what if trees could make sound, and what if they could respond to the sounds other trees made? Could we consider that to be talking? Well, trees do make sounds, not just sounds generated by wind passing through their branches or their leaves, but sounds generated from within. Tree sounds come from water and presumably tiny air bubbles moving through the plant with healthy trees making more sound than unhealthy trees. Sound travels in waves and we detect these sound waves as vibrations, more sound equals more vibrations. Tree sounds come from water moving through the plant with most of the water entering the plant through the roots. The more actively roots are taking and moving water the greater that sound will be. Now, here for the interesting bit… it seems that roots are attracted to the sounds/vibrations of other roots. A single root in the soil may not generate much sound but a bunch of roots actively moving water all at the same place will. There is a theory that roots can sense vibrations and will grow towards the source of the sound, i.e. there must be something good in the soil to generate so much sound so other roots want to join the party. Trees are communal creatures they share information above ground, they share information below ground, they give each other shelter and share nutrients – in a forest or when part of a ‘super organism’ at least. I have always said that trees don’t think, they respond and I’m not suggesting that these forms of communication are conscious actions or even unconscious processes, because trees don’t have consciousness; but with all of this communication going on, and at so many different levels what is it, if it is not some form consciousness? |
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2018/05/15 03:00:03
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| author | ejimenez |
| body | Hello Mark, welcome to Steemit, knowledge is universal and must be shared. Greetings from Venezuela. |
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: the-consciousness-of-trees
2018/05/14 22:21:48
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| body |  We have known for many years that trees communicate with each other, that their responses to insect and/or animal attack can be picked up by other trees. We know that the attacked tree can send out warning signals to other trees and these signals can be very specific; e.g. they can differentiate between leaf eating and sap sucking, and between insect and animal attack. The mechanics behind this are surprisingly straight forward and work well in a forest situation. This form of response communication is also surprisingly fast. Grazing animals have been observed lunching on every other tree and not chewing from one tree to the next; the theory being that by the time the animal has finished chomping on one tree the neighbouring tree knows what is coming and has already pumped its leaves full with less tasty substances. We know that trees help each other. Nutrient sharing takes place, mainly between trees of the same species but inter-species help is also not uncommon. It would be nice to think that trees are caring beings and look after their neighbours because of some sense of ‘natural goodness’; but we suspect that is not the case. Nutrient sharing also typically takes place in a forest situation. The theory being that a forest functions as a ‘super organism’, a single living entity that just happens to be made up of thousands if not millions of separate living things. By helping your neighbours, you help yourself – the forest canopy stays intact, pests and diseases don’t get a chance to establish and the super organism remains strong. The odd thing about nutrient sharing is that it seems to be controlled by fungus (the mycorrhizal fungi living on or in the roots), which poses the question; who or what is in really in control of the super organism? The other interesting thing about nutrient sharing is that it doesn’t seem to happen as much in planted/commercial forestry or in agricultural cropping situations. One theory there is that the addition of fertiliser (particularly phosphates) kills off the naturally occurring soil flora. So, we know that trees communicate with each other [in a forest situation at least]. We know how this happens and we can guess why – but these forms of communication don’t involve sound, so we can’t really call it talking and it would be a stretch to call it a form of non-verbal communication as well. But what if trees could make sound, and what if they could respond to the sounds other trees made? Could we consider that to be talking? Well, trees do make sounds, not just sounds generated by wind passing through their branches or their leaves, but sounds generated from within. Tree sounds come from water and presumably tiny air bubbles moving through the plant with healthy trees making more sound than unhealthy trees. Sound travels in waves and we detect these sound waves as vibrations, more sound equals more vibrations. Tree sounds come from water moving through the plant with most of the water entering the plant through the roots. The more actively roots are taking and moving water the greater that sound will be. Now, here for the interesting bit… it seems that roots are attracted to the sounds/vibrations of other roots. A single root in the soil may not generate much sound but a bunch of roots actively moving water all at the same place will. There is a theory that roots can sense vibrations and will grow towards the source of the sound, i.e. there must be something good in the soil to generate so much sound so other roots want to join the party. Trees are communal creatures they share information above ground, they share information below ground, they give each other shelter and share nutrients – in a forest or when part of a ‘super organism’ at least. I have always said that trees don’t think, they respond and I’m not suggesting that these forms of communication are conscious actions or even unconscious processes, because trees don’t have consciousness; but with all of this communication going on, and at so many different levels what is it, if it is not some form consciousness? |
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robertsandtreespublished a new post: robertsandtrees-introducing-mark-roberts
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