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<div>Thank you for updating the information and knowledge transfer. I must question the purchasing and licensed professional requirements for TreeAzin. </div>
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<div>I’m I wrong to think that a practicing arborist must be certified and trained to buy, handle, transport, drill as well as inject this targeted systemic pesticide ? </div>
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<div>Could there be other species or specimens not described and/or not pathologically referenced, signs and/or symptoms possibly caused by un assessed parasites be described on the ´Caution when using’ notices ? </div>
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<div>TreeAzin is a powerful chemical, in the above mention case, it seems it was misused. The results of punction holes by drilling into the Tillia at a wrong time of season using an inappropriate product are creating unwanted diseases and portrays unprofessional
images to the field of some worthy practitioners.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Elaine Ethier
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<blockquote type="cite">Le 6 sept. 2022 à 09:41, Iola Price via CANUFNET <canufnet@list.web.net> a écrit :<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello people - I posted the question about the basswood and early leaf drop on behalf of a friend who had had the tree injected with Tree Azin. At the time I told my friend that I would ask professional foresters if the treatment might have
caused the leaf drop but that, in my non-professional opinion, Tree Azin was not the problem but summer heat and drought might be candidates.
<div>My friend reached out to BioForest/Lallemand and Elsa Cousineau immediately visited the property and looked at the tree in question. She then posted a reply which went only to me and should have gone to the entire CANUFNET group. So, here in its entirety,
is Elsa Cousineau's response. And it mirrors other replies received. Tree Azin was not the problem. Iola Price</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning Iola,<span class="m_-3462598221601640050eop"> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Hope </span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">you’re
doing well! I had a feeling you might have heard of these basswoods! I’ve just come from </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">visiting the property this morning and can share my thoughts.</span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050eop"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">For some context, the property owner reached out to BioForest/Lallemand Plant Care asking if there could be a negative reaction following
a TreeAzin injection.</span></p>
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<span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">In our professional experience, and since TreeAzin has become available in 2008, we have never seen a tree react negatively immediately
following an injection, nor have we heard of a tree suffer from a phytotoxic reaction.</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050eop"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">U</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">pon hearing
of these basswoods, our main concern was that these trees were injected pre-bloom! TreeAzin’s label clearly states that all injections must be conducted post-bloom, meaning once the flowers have dropped, to reduce the risk to pollinators. Basswood trees bloom
late in the season and at a time when spongy moth larvae are no longer active. Therefore, spongy moth treatments should never be conducted on any tilias. </span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050eop"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Having seen these trees, I can attest that most are in good condition, despite their age: they are quite mature, and some are showing
signs of decline not uncommon with trees that size (cankers, rot pockets, dead limbs, etc.). Some are showing signs of a bacterial
</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">wetwood infection at the injection sites, but bacterial wetwood, also known as slime flux, should not be a contributing factor to canopy
decline. A neighbouring mature basswood that was not treated is also showing signs of early leaf senescence.</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050eop"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Some of my colleagues across the province have noticed that some trees are showing signs of early leaf senescence this year—perhaps a delayed reaction to
</span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun" style="font-size:12pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">some of the droughty summers
</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">we’ve experienced over the past few years.</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050eop" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">It’s</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> really
a shame that these trees were unnecessarily injected, and that they are showing signs of decline, but I can’t say that the two are directly related. I hope the owner is able to work with an experienced arborist to give them the care and maintenance they deserve.</span></span><span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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<span class="m_-3462598221601640050normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks, and talk soon,<u></u><u></u></span></span></p>
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