Pyracantha

ROBOKU

Here is a pyracantha (firethorn) in training. note the flowers!!

anyone else had one that flowerd and made berries??

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ROBOKU

oopps sorry wrong one that one needs a chop

here is another

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ROBOKU

now here is the tree.

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TreeBay

We get very reliable flowering and fruiting from Pyracantha ( Firethorn ) here in the San Francisco Bay area. I had one specimen in training that underwent a lot of die back. One of the problems with Pyracantha is fireblight - a bacterial disease that causes wilting and drying of branches and can be spread from tree to tree by insects or birds.

Before and after trimming pyracantha, sanitize your tools in a 10% bleach-in-water solution and cover all pruning wounds. If you prune away a dead branch, sanitze again before resuming the pruning or you could spread the bacteria.

Fireblight can affect a number of hosts, including pear, rosacae (rose family including many fruiting plants), hawthorn, quince, & cotoneaster

FIREBLIGHT:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/planth/pestnote/fire.htm

I remember there was a large thicket of pyracantha near one of the Junior Colleges in the area. The fruit would ferment on the bushes, and (reportedly) would cause birds to become drunk and crash into the large plate glass windows of the building.

http://www.urbanlegends.com/animals/drunken_birds.html

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ROBOKU

Thanks for the advice tree bay thats what proberly killed the top of the first pic...

pdbbonsai

or had.....Wifes parrot ate this one up lickity split. Perhaps it was performing bonsai techniques it had watched me do. However it did them all at once......

Defoliated, pruned, jinned, shari'd and even inspected the roots.

Here is the now dead firethorn....sorry if ya wanted to see live ones.


Paul

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DavidN

Treebay, got this hilarious picture of drunking birds in my head. Very funny.

Rob, great flowers.

ROBOKU

Here is a look at the top one again any ideas?

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zeb

Rob,
I think the top looks great!
Wonderful taper. I like the roots and branches too.
The only thing it needs is getting rid of the dead branches and maybe the lowest live branch also.

Regards
Zeb

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