{"id":27237,"date":"2025-01-14T23:23:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/arborist\/tree-is-too-big-arborist-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T23:23:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T23:23:17","slug":"tree-is-too-big-arborist-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=27237","title":{"rendered":"Tree is too Big &#8211; Arborist Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>So you have a tree that you like.\u00a0 It is perfect, or nearly perfect, just the way it is.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t reaching overtop of the house.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t interfering with the tree next to it.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t providing too much shade.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t appear to be a risk \u2014 yet.\u00a0 Yet, being the operative word.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Now the question, how can the tree be kept to that size?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Trying to tell a tree to stop growing is a little bit like telling a teenager entering puberty to do the same.\u00a0 It\u2019s not happening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Is it possible?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Is that cruel and unhealthy? \u00a0Definitely a yes as well.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>It is for this reason that people will often say to parents, \u201cenjoy your kids when they are young\/little, because they won\u2019t be that way forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Trees are the same.\u00a0 They are hardwired based on their genetic makeup to grow to a certain size.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Their environment could be changed so their growth is stunted, but once again, this has detrimental effects.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>This could be done to varying levels of effect by cutting the roots, injecting a chemical into the tree, or removing the top of the tree.\u00a0 The challenge with these measures is that they are quite drastic and nine times out of ten they create more problems than if the tree were allowed to grow larger.\u00a0 \u00a0If safety is the goal then inhibiting a tree from growing larger is counterproductive to this.\u00a0 The tree would be safer to simply grow taller.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>A very common request that all tree service companies receive is to \u201ctop\u201d a tree.\u00a0 Tree topping is exactly that, remove the highest most section of the tree.\u00a0 Check out this little video we made a few years ago of a tree that had been topped.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:image --> <!-- divi:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <!-- \/divi:paragraph --><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you have a tree that you like.\u00a0 It is perfect, or nearly perfect, just the way it is.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t reaching overtop of the house.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t interfering with the tree next to it.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t providing too much shade.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t appear to be a risk \u2014 yet.\u00a0 Yet, being the operative word.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12041],"tags":[12697,1022,3956,1639],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-27237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arborist","tag-arborist","tag-big","tag-recommendations","tag-tree"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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