yellarcat
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Hello, I planted 5 Italian cypresses last summer that were about 8 foot tall. I am having trouble with spider mites on a couple of them. Some of the trees have the main trunk branching out into multiple trunks starting about 4.5 feet up, while the ones that weren't really affected by the spider mites still appear to have a single main trunk almost to the top.
My question is, should I prune off the extra trunks that are developing so they are back to a single trunk or just leave them?
I worry about stressing the trees more that are still dealing with spider mites by pruning off the new trunks and I don't know whether this is natural for them to have/develop more than a single main trunk over time as the grow, or if this is a problem that has been caused by the spider mites, although one of the healthy trees that doesn't appear to have spider mites is also developing multiple trunks as well.
Any help would be appreciated as I can not find an answer to my question by searching.
Joel
My question is, should I prune off the extra trunks that are developing so they are back to a single trunk or just leave them?
I worry about stressing the trees more that are still dealing with spider mites by pruning off the new trunks and I don't know whether this is natural for them to have/develop more than a single main trunk over time as the grow, or if this is a problem that has been caused by the spider mites, although one of the healthy trees that doesn't appear to have spider mites is also developing multiple trunks as well.
Any help would be appreciated as I can not find an answer to my question by searching.
Joel