The Real Risk of Topping a Tree in Jacksonville’s Hurricane Climate, and Why It Makes Trees More Dangerous
Quick Answer: Topping, cutting a tree’s main branches back to stubs, does the opposite of what people hope. It does not make a tree hurricane-safe. It forces a flush of fast, weakly attached regrowth (water sprouts) that breaks off easily, while the open stub wounds invite decay that rots the very limbs holding that regrowth […]
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