SHOW ME THE FLOWERS! The child is the father of the man. ..

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Dr. Treevorkians Ten Ways to Kill Your Customer
Base

• 1. Sell buggy plants
• 2. Sell the wrong products.
• 3. Sell the wrong plants.
• 4. Provide no growing
• tips.
• 5. Always know the answer.

• 6. Say you dont know,
• period.
• 7. Always blame the other guy.
• 8. Know no more than your customer.
• 9. Prove your customer wrong.
• 10. Grow unhappy employees.

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Plant in the wrong site.
(Death Taxus - Money down the drain.)
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Plant pestiferous trees.
(Honeylocusts as far as the eyes can see.)
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Change that grade use my D9 Biotype
(Who needs oxygen?)
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Squeeze the trees!
(Competition is fun!)
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pHooey!
(Ready, Fire, Aim Plant now - plan later.)
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Salts are the spice of death Season until
well-done.
(A little more cant hurt.)
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Tree Toppers Unlimited.
(Do you like my haircut?)
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Girdles R Us!
(Who needs phloem?)
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Employ Dr. Treevorkians of the soil.
(Fungus amongus.)
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Death eating a cracker.
(Who needs dihydrogen oxide?)
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Principles of Environmentally Based Lawn
Landscape Management Ohio Turfgrass
Conference December 7, 1998
Jim Chatfield Joe Boggs Ohio State University
Extension
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Dr. Treevorkians Seven Deadly Sins of Science

• 1. Experimental error is divinely human.
• 2. Confound it!
• 3. Randomization and replication are just
  words.
• 4. Half-Bakerisms are not half-bad.
• 5. There are no significant others.
• 6. Chicken soup for the soil.
• 7. Scuse me while I kiss this guy.

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Dr. Craborkian Recommends

• All crabapples are created equal.
• Venturia uber alles
• Dolgos in your doorways
• SHOW ME THE FLOWERS!
• The child is the father of the man.

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Dr. Treevorkians Rules for Squirt Gun Botany

• If a little is good, then more is better.
• Spray for pay.
• One size fits all.
• Seen one label, seen em all.
• There is something for everything.

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Dr. Treevorkians Secrets of the Soil.

• Gypsum is exactly what it sounds like.
• Fertilizer is plant food.
• Size doesnt matter.
• pHooey
• Soil is just a bunch of dirt.

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Dr. Treevorkians Infectious Disease Digest.

• Dont shoot until you see the whites of the
  ascis.
• Nature and nurture dont mix.
• Fungi shall inherit the earth.
• Dihydrogen oxide is just another chemical.
• Strawberry Fields Forever.

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Dr. Treevorkians Favorite Quotes.

• I consider every plant hardy until I kill it
  myself.
• The only good use for a viburnum is to hide
  the garbage cans.
• The road of excess leads to the palace of
  wisdom.
• Time wounds all heels.
• People with stiff upper lips
• sure have a hard time smiling.

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Dr. Treevorkians Five Ways to Kill Your
Customers.

• 1. Badmouth the other guy.
• 2. Let the buyer beware.
• 3. Be a know-it-all.
• 4. Be an expert in fine print.
• 5. Sell commodities.

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Dr. Treevorkians Guide to Latin
Latin is a language, as dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans and now its killing
me.
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Dr. Treevorkians Ten Rules for Plant Selection.

• 1. Death Taxus - Plant in wet sites.
• 2. Shade your rose garden unter der lindens.
• 3. Promote Japanese maples as the next grate
  street tree.
• 4. Try silver maples as foundation plants.
• 5. Companion plant tip of the day Walnuts and
  tomatoes.

• 6. Plant No Hopa crabapples.
• 7. White pines for the white
• lines.
• 8. Basic Rhody Cocktail Lots
• of Water with a Lime
• Chaser
• 9. Forever Impatiens.
• 10. Zoysiagrass Grave blankets of the
  future.

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Dr. Tree-Vorkians Top 10 Prescriptions for
Killing Trees

• Plant in wrong place
• Pestiferous trees
• Change the grade
• Limit root area
• Poor nutrition

• Poor pruning
• Excess salts
• Girdling
• Underwater
• Overwater

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Chatmandus CommonSense Tree Care Cures

• Dr. Tree-Vorkians Top 10 Prescriptions for
  Killing Trees

• Plant in wrong place
• Pestiferous trees
• Change the grade
• Limit root area
• Poor nutrition
• Poor pruning
• Excess salts
• Girdling
• Underwater
• Overwater

• Provide a Good Home
• Prevention is Better Than Cure
• Remember Your Roots
• Provide Room to Grow
• Nature and Nurture
• Have a Weight-Loss Plan
• Avoid Overseasoning
• Wear Loose Clothing
• Drink Plenty of Liquids
• Dont Drink Too Much

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Chatmandus Common Sense Tree Care Cures

• Provide a Good Home
• Prevention is Better Than Cure
• Remember Your Roots
• Provide Room to Grow
• Nature and Nurture

• Have a Weight-Loss Plan
• Avoid Overseasoning
• Wear Loose Clothing
• Drink Plenty of Liquids
• Dont Drink Too Much

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Diagnosis and Management of Spruce, Pine and
Juniper ProblemsCORRELATED CONFUSION
CLARIFIED!Ohio Turfgrass ConferenceDecember 7,
1998

• Joe Boggs Jim Chatfield
• OSU Extension

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Major Foliar Diseases of Conifers

• Sphaeropsis (Diplodia) Tip Blight of Pine
• Cyclaneusma Needlecast of Pine
• Lophodermium Needlecast of Pine
• Rhizosphaera Needlecast of Spruce
• Phomopsis Tip Blight of Juniper

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Major Foliar Diseases of Conifers

• Sphaeropsis (Diplodia) Tip Blight of Pine
• Cyclaneusma Needlecast of Pine
• Lophodermium Needlecast of Pine
• Rhizosphaera Needlecast of Spruce
• Phomopsis Tip Blight of Juniper

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Major Foliar Diseases of Conifers

• Sphaeropsis (Diplodia) Tip Blight of Pine
• Cyclaneusma Needlecast of Pine
• Lophodermium Needlecast of Pine
• Rhizosphaera Needlecast of Spruce
• Phomopsis Tip Blight of Juniper

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Major Foliar Diseases of Conifers

• Sphaeropsis (Diplodia) Tip Blight of Pine
• Cyclaneusma Needlecast of Pine
• Lophodermium Needlecast of Pine
• Rhizosphaera Needlecast of Spruce
• Phomopsis Tip Blight of Juniper

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Major Foliar Diseases of Conifers

• Sphaeropsis (Diplodia) Tip Blight of Pine
• Cyclaneusma Needlecast of Pine
• Lophodermium Needlecast of Pine
• Rhizosphaera Needlecast of Spruce
• Phomopsis Tip Blight of Juniper

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Major Foliar Diseases of Conifers

• Sphaeropsis (Diplodia) Tip Blight of Pine
• Cyclaneusma Needlecast of Pine
• Lophodermium Needlecast of Pine
• Rhizosphaera Needlecast of Spruce
• Phomopsis Tip Blight of Juniper

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True or FalseIf there is brown foliage and tip
dieback on junipers, it is probably due to
Phomopsis tip dieback disease.
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True or FalseFoliar browning on Taxus plants is
typically due to fungal leaf blight diseases.
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True or FalseFoliar diseases of evergreens are
typically controlled with curative fungicide
applications.
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True or FalseSphaeropsis (Diplodia) tip blight
can occur on white pine and on spruce as well as
Scotch, Austrian, red and mugo pines.
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True or FalseRust diseases of evergreens are
common in Ohio.
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True or FalseCedar quince rust can be damaging
in Ohio not only to hawthorns, but also their
eastern red cedar alternate hosts.
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Who said The diagnosis of the varied
problems of evergreens is the most noble
profession of mankind, save the growing,
nurturing and sale of said same jewels of nature.
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Things to Know About Juniper Blights

• Most Common Phomopsis and Kabatina blights.
• Symptoms Foliar discoloration, twig dieback of
  new growth (6)
• Symptoms Phomopsis all season Kabatina -
  March-June
• Infections Phomopsis - spring, summer, fall
  Kabatina - fall.
• Black, pimple-like fungal fruiting bodies visible
  with hand lens.

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Control of Juniper Blights

• Genetic resistance of Junipers to these blights.
• Site Junipers in sunny sites with good air
  movement.
• Prune infected tissue, but avoid heavy pruning
  avoid pruning in wet weather.
• Fungicides Coppers (e.g. Phyton-27),
  benzimidazoles (e.g. Clearys 3336)

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More Information About Juniper Blights

• Juniper Diseases, Bulletin C-711, Kansas State
  University. CES, Manhattan, KS 66506
• Diseases of Landscape Plants, Bulletin 614,
  Ohio State University Extension.

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10 Things You Need to Know About Diplodia Tip
Blight of Pine

• Diplodia Sphaeropsis
• Hosts Mostly Scots, Austrian, red, mugo pines
• Infections Greatest on 15-25 year-old trees
• Infections Just before new candle growth in
  spring
• Symptoms Dieback and starting of new growth.

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10 Things You Need to Know About Diplodia Tip
Blight of Pine - continued

• Symptoms Lower branch dieback, possible tree
  death.
• Signs black pycnidia on needles, cones
• Control Prevention Site and plant selection
• Control Prevention Proper plant care
• Control Prevention Fungicides