Here at The Kings' Tree Care we pride ourselves in maintaining your trees health through proper pruning techniques. We prune trees correctly to reduce the height of a tree and keep it healthy. We trim appropriate branches to safely shorten your tree, without using the harmful practice of topping your trees. Topping your trees to reduce height puts your trees at great risk and in the long run can prove to be a costly mistake. The tree will either need to be removed later on or need extra care just to stay alive. Topping trees is a quick way to gain visible results, but what most people do not realize is cutting large diameter main branches of a tree in an effort to reduce height is actually a counter effective way to pruning trees. Topping permanently disfigures trees by reducing beautiful branches to stubs and essentially initiates the decline of the tree. Topping trees jump starts the decay process, and leaves trees vulnerable. When branches are correctly pruned at its point of attachment to the trunk the decay progress is stopped from continuing further into the trunk. A correct cut allows the tree to rapidly heal and close all wounds, the bark can then quickly grow over the injury. The fungi and decay that is present on branches that have been stubbed through the proceed of topping, can now spread into the trunk of the tree. Whenever a cut is made in the main leader by topping, there is nothing to prevent decay from developing in the trunk. The tree becomes structurally weak and its life span reduced. Other affects of topping include:
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