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Just figured out I've been pruning oak trees all wrong

For about 5 years I was cutting oak limbs flush with the trunk, thinking that was cleaner. A guy from the county extension office saw me working near Austin and said I was leaving too big a wound and missing the branch collar. Which side of the pruning debate do you fall on, flush cuts or collar cuts?
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shanes66
shanes6615d ago
Nah man, collar cuts all the way, flush cuts just hurt the tree more lol.
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tessap97
tessap9714d agoMost Upvoted
Oh man, wait - you've been flush cutting oaks for FIVE years?? That's wild, @shanes66 is totally right though, collar cuts are the way to go.
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