How trees fight climate change Add to Library Tackling climate change with Sappi Looking for a written summary of the four points in the video? It's all below! 1. Capturing and storing CO2 Trees capture and store the carbon dioxide (CO2) that causes climate change. They absorb CO2 during...
Tap your trees when the sap starts to flow, which happens in late winter when day time temperatures rise above freezing, but night time temperatures are still dropping below freezing. Here in Massachusetts, that’s usually late February or early March, and continues for about a month. Now, y...
Knowing when to spray your fruit trees is essential to a healthy harvest. These easy preparation tips will get you on your way to achieving this task with a better end goal. Tip #1 – Clean Up & Pruning It’s important to do a really good cleanup around your trees as a preventative me...
Spider mitesare microscopic arachnids that are also partial to shrub sap. They often cause stippling, discoloration, or bronzing of the foliage. They produce fine webbing on the undersides of leaves, where they reproduce rapidly in hot, dry conditions. Heavy infestations will weaken and strip your...
(Jubaea chilensis) is one of the world's most massive palms, reaching 100 feet in height with a trunk up to 5 feet in diameter. The monolithic trees grow very slowly, taking hundreds of years to reach this size. In their native Chile, they are cut for their sap, which is turned ...
Leaves drop: A sudden loss of leaves is usually a sign of a stressed-out plant. “Fiddle-leaf fig doesn't like being moved around, so once you have found the right spot for it, leave it there," says Veronica Peerless, author of How Not to Kill Your Houseplant. Other causes of ...
Tree sap, whether it be pine or another variety, can easily drop onto cars while parked on the street or the driveway under a canopy of trees. Once that sap gets hot, in the sun, it basically bakes on and can be very difficult to remove. ...
Young mango trees do benefit from regular watering and a little fertilizing until they are established. But don't love your mango tree to death. Overwatering can kill it, especially if your soil is a bit heavy. And too much nitrogen fertilizer will make it weak and sappy, all leaves and...
While trees store substantial amounts of nonstructural carbon (NSC) for later use, storage regulation and mobilization of stored NSC in long-lived organisms like trees are still not well understood.At two different sites with sugar maple (Acer saccharum), we investigated ascending sap (sugar concen...
At the same time, make sure to keep the car away from trees that drip sap or drop leaves. But if you do find some sap drippings, don’t forget you can use WD-40 to remove tree sap from cars. Close all the doors and windows of your car and set all the cleaning equipments at ...