Trees and Turf
PO BOX 9
Grand Bay, Alabama 36541
(251) 402-9848
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Stress on a tree is gradual and often the first symptoms include chlorotic or yellowing needles that may not occur for two or four years. Often people in the field will refer to the decline of South Florida Slash Pine as the "Golden Pine Syndrome." Once a tree becomes stressed and/or weakened, it is an open invitation for various diseases and insects to attack it and eventually cause its death. Generally stress alone will not kill a tree. It is a combination of stress and insects or diseases that will kill a tree.
The cost of removing a fully mature pine or a key focal point on your course is unthinkable. The time for a sapling to mature can change the entire outlook of a course. Heavy irrigation leads to chlorosis, or yellowing pines, which can only be remedied by an iron treatment.
We understand that you may have hundreds of pines on your course and removal is just out of the question. Let's us bring the green back to your yellowing pines without mulching or removing sod. Trees and Turf can correct chlorosis of many types of tress and ornamentals grown on or adjacent to golf courses with high pH water, like much of the Gulf Coast.
See what others have to say:
I am the Greens Chairman and also in charge of saving sick and dying Slash Pine trees at a private country club in Boynton Beach, Florida. If your irrigation comes from well water and you have Slash Pines, Live Oaks, Magnolias, Palm Trees or other tree species, many of them are sick. Slash Pines tell the sick story better than any of the other trees because they turn yellow and in most cases, die in two years or less.
Now there is an answer to the Slash Pine decline and having treated over 2,000 trees at our club since late 1998, we have had wonderful success. We have cut down less than 1% of the sick trees we have treated ... 18 to be exact. We are root feeding our trees with a mixture of sulfur and micronutrients that in some cases turn a yellow tree green in less than 60 days.
Since 1978 our club has cut down about 30,000 Slash Pines at a cost of $1,800,000. Now we cut down 500% fewer Slash Pines and approximately 98% of the trees cut down now have never been treated with anything.
The product is called Emerald Tree and was created by Neal Howell, a native Alabamian who has a Masters Degree in Plant Science and worked for Lesco for 8 years.
As a 22-year member at our club, I have a vested interest in saving the 15,000 Slash Pines that remain.
Sincerely,
Chairman of the Greens Committee
