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Posted by: Gone tropo	Posted: Tuesday, 5 December 2023 3:30:13 PM(UTC)
BTW Tropo, if you were to be in track of a big cyclone a day or 2 out would you chainsaw those fruit trees to save them just in case..? Hey Scott the majority of my fruit trees are 4m and under in height and I plan to keep them that way for cyclone purposes, some of my prized trees such as durian and marang i will let grow to a max of about 6 metres but not any taller. Certainly in the event of a 90% chance of a cyclone hit I will prune anything over 4m in height back to 3-4m, from everything ive read the real damage from cyclones occurs about 3m above the ground like a buzz saw going through. Some of my most prized trees are grown on trellis for cyclone purposes. Letting any fruit trees get to big up here is bad idea not just for cyclones however that is the biggest threat but bats, cockatoos, parrots every other threat becomes more of an issue the bigger trees get. Certainly if I had bought an established property with large vulnerable trees like durian I would have to cut them back at the 90% chance of a direct hit, they just take way too long to start fruiting and are extremely poorly rooted, this goes for rambutan and a lesser extent mangosteen. Mango seem to have a much deeper better root system to take cyclones however young trees in that vulnerable 6m or less size also get toppled over in florida in hurricances. My other back up plan for some prized trees that are not on trellis in the event of incoming cyclone is to belt in 4 star pickets around the tree very deeply and tie ropes off to the trunk to at least try to save the trunk, laterals are likely to all get smashed off but if the trunk can be saved they will regrow.
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