Yes, you read that right. I have mistletoes in my trees. This is a serious thing for me because mistletoe is actually a parasite that will eventually kill the tree. The mistletoe have been there for a while (AKA longer than I feel comfortable commenting about online) and I’m very worried about the trees. So… I decided to fight it.
As of this post, I have six trees in my yard with mistletoe. All the infected trees are Ironwood trees. I already cut the branches with mistletoes off three trees. (I decided to cut the branches off the trees before trying other methods of getting rid of mistletoe. I have seen branch removal work in the past. Plus, the trees needed to get pruned anyway.) Two of the trees are doing really well and don’t show any further problems.
Here is a photograph of one of the mistletoe infected branches I cut off one of the trees…
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