Trees have many benefits, from providing shade and beauty and creating oxygen to reducing greenhouse gases, helping prevent erosion and increasing property values. Trees can also, however, succumb to disease, pest infestations and structural defects that can cause them to fail. This often leads to a tree falling, injuring people and property.
Many people aren’t familiar with how critical regular pruning is to a tree’s overall health and longevity. Professional arborists like ours in Johnson City use Compartmentalization of Decay in Trees — or CODIT — pruning techniques to improve tree structure and stability. Today, we’re taking a look at the benefits of CODIT tree pruning, how it works and why it’s essential for maintaining healthy, stable trees:
What is CODIT pruning?
CODIT pruning removes branches that are negatively affecting a tree. The goal is to prevent decay and remove any decayed growth, which is essential to maintaining a tree’s overall health.
CODIT pruning techniques help keep trees strong and healthy in the following ways:
- Removing one stem to address co-dominant stems
- Preventing entanglement by addressing lateral growth within the crown
- Correcting entanglement by removing one branch to free another
- Removing water sprouts that rob resources from the main branches and threaten its structure
- Removing suckers that crowd the tree and take nutrients from it
- Thinning the canopy to let light in for photosynthesis and prevent entanglement
- Removing dead or dying limbs to prevent further die-out and stimulate new growth
Importance of professional pruning
Tree pruning by our certified arborists in Kingsport who use CODIT techniques should be a critical part of your tree maintenance. Homeowners can accomplish some needed tree trimming around their property, but improper pruning has been known to do more harm to trees than good. Failure to regularly prune a tree altogether can leave a tree vulnerable to structural problems, diseases and pests, which can ultimately lead to the tree failing, causing injuries and damage to people and property. A regular schedule for professional tree trimming and pruning is essential to maintaining healthy, beautiful trees and the value of your property.
Tree pruning in Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol, Tennessee
The CODIT pruning techniques used by our ISA-certified arborists at Promier Tree in the Tri-cities area can ensure the continued health and beauty of your trees so that they can thrive and provide shade, oxygen, beauty, and value for your property for years to come. Give us a call at (423) 872-2988, or contact us online today.