Welcome to Warner’s Tree Surgery, Mesa’s Top Tree Care Service.
With over half a century of experience, I specialize in diagnosing and treating a wide range of tree diseases.
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Ash trees are elegant and resilient, but they can also suffer from various diseases that affect their health and beauty.
In this video, I will show you how to recognize the signs and symptoms of common ash tree diseases, such as ash anthracnose, ash yellows, verticillium wilt, and emerald ash borer.
I will also share tips and tricks on how to prevent and treat these diseases using natural and effective methods. As a tree doctor and expert in tree disease, I have years of experience dealing with ash trees in Arizona.
If you love ash trees and want to keep them healthy and beautiful, this video is for you!
In this video, my wife Pat's avatar invites you to discover our company, our comprehensive services, and our unwavering commitment to tree health.
Most of the videos on this page were created with the help of a new artificial intelligence program made available to the public by Microsoft, known as Copilot.
This advanced AI program accessed and evaluated extensive information about tree diseases available on the Internet, and identified the most accurate data.
With my guidance, it wrote scripts in plain English covering all the topics of tree diseases featured in these videos.
Please overlook the cartoonish nature of the avatars. The information in these videos comes from the top experts on tree diseases worldwide.
It represents a wealth of information that would take an immense amount of time for a human to gather, process, and present.
NASA Discovers Microbes in the Sky and How Rain Makes Trees Sick with Germs from Space
In this video, I discuss a recent discovery by NASA about the microbes that live in the upper layers of the atmosphere. These tiny organisms, called pathogens, can cause diseases in plants and animals. I explain how these microbes travel around the world, affect the formation and properties of raindrops, and might cause new and unknown diseases in trees and other plants.
In this video, Pat from Warner's Tree Surgery explains how herbs and trees fight disease with enzymes, and how they produce these enzymes from the nutrients in the soil. She also shares tips on using herbs for your health and improving soil health for your plants.
Chemical Burns in Trees
Trees have a membrane at the end of their roots that functions like a one-way valve, allowing water in but not out. However, when too many ions accumulate on the ground side of the membrane, it reverses its function and lets water out of the tree, causing a chemical burn.
To treat this, flood the tree with water for two weeks. Hopefully, this will drive whatever is causing the chemical burn deeper into the ground. If successful, you'll see new buds appear on the tree within a week or two.
The worst thing you can do for a chemical burn is to apply fertilizer or any other chemical. I've personally seen this condition many times. Sometimes, a neighbor will drain their radiator, and the radiator fluid will seep over and affect a tree. Often, when there's work done on a house, people will clean their tools around the base of the tree.
It can also happen if there's something toxic in the ground. For instance, 40 years ago, we had a tree die at our tree trimming business in La Mesa, California. When we ground the stump out, we found a car buried beneath the tree, and the roots had finally worked their way into the car's old battery. How would anyone ever know that something like that caused their tree to die?
When houses are built, they usually have to fill the ground, supposedly with clean dirt, but it's anyone's guess what's really down there. Also, if your tree's roots have gotten into the sewer pipe, any kind of drain cleaner like Drano can also cause a chemical burn. Too much fertilizer can cause a chemical burn. If your house is being painted with latex paint that requires paint cleaner to clean the brushes, and they clean their brushes around the well of the tree, this can cause a chemical burn. A gas leak can do it as well.
Insecticides can also cause a chemical burn. So, if the person spraying for bugs gets careless and sprays too much or has their tank tip over on your trees, you may get a chemical burn.
Of course, salt from a pool will really damage a tree. In most cases, it will kill it, but sometimes it just presents as a chemical burn. Chlorine from a swimming pool will initially be good for the soil because it will acidify the soil, which we have alkaline soil. However, at some point, the chlorine from a pool will cause a chemical burn.
If your tree shows symptoms of a chemical burn, flood it for two weeks and inject something directly into the tree to bypass the root system and boost the immune system of the tree. This is what we do. So, water the tree for two weeks - really a lot of water - and then leave it alone for at least a year. After that, if the leaves start to look funny, call us to look at the tree so we can boost the immune system one more time. Then, follow the directions on the handout I will give you.
Chinese Elms are elegant and resilient, but they can also suffer from various diseases that can affect their health and beauty.
Citrus Trees are native to Asia and can be grown in warm climates. However, they can also suffer from various diseases that affect their health and appearance, such as canker rot, root rot, and leaf spot. In this video, I will show you how to recognize the symptoms of common Citrus tree diseases and how to treat them using natural and effective methods.
I will also share some tips on how to prevent these diseases and keep your lemon trees healthy and happy. As a tree doctor and an expert in tree diseases, I have over 50 years of experience in caring for lemon trees and other plants.
If you want to learn more about this and protect them from diseases, watch this video.
Understanding Yellow Palo Verde Issues: Common Problems
Root Rot: Caused by overwatering or poor drainage. Look for yellowing leaves, wilting, branch dieback, and fungal growth near the base of the trunk.
Palo Verde Root Borer: This beetle larvae tunnel beneath the bark, disrupting the tree's nutrient and water flow. Signs include holes at the tree's base, sawdust, and canopy thinning.
Iron Chlorosis: Yellowing leaves with visible green veins indicate lack of available iron due to high soil pH.
Pine trees are evergreen trees that can provide shade, wind protection, and ornamental value to the landscape. However, they may also suffer from some diseases that affect their health and appearance.
In this video, you will learn how to recognize the symptoms of common pine tree diseases, such as tip blight, root rot, and aphid infestation, and how to manage them effectively.
You will also get some tips on how to prevent these diseases by providing optimal care to your pine trees.
Whether you are a homeowner, a landscaper, or a tree enthusiast, this video will help you keep your pine trees healthy and beautiful in Mesa, Gilbert, Sun Lakes, Tempe, Chandler, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
Queen Palm Tree Diseases
In this video, we share our tips and tricks on how to prevent and treat some of the common problems that affect queen palms in Arizona, such as frizzle top and fusarium wilt.
We also recommend using the Lutz Queen Palm Spikes, which are specially formulated for queen palms.
Tipu Tree Losing Leaves
Are you worried about your trees being affected by diseases? Do your trees look sick or diseased? Do they just look bad? Do you think they need help? Do the leaves look bad? Maybe they just don't look good.
Are the branches dying? Does the tree have dead leaves on parts of the branches? Do some of the leaves look white and dead? Is the top dying out? Is yellow sap coming off the tree bark?
Are the leaves smaller than usual? Do the leaves look curled? Are there holes in the leaves? Do the leaves have spots on them? Does part of the tree have yellow leaves on it? Is my tree going to survive?
If any of these things are the case, then your Tipu trees in Maricopa County, Arizona are under attack from anthracnose, apple scab, canker rot, and emerald ash borer.
I just finished it using the new AI. It contains animated videos on over 200 trees and the challenges they face here in Maricopa County. Some of the videos above are a sample of the information that's available on tree diseases. It took me 4 months to do, but without the help of the new AI, it would have taken me years, if I could have done it at all. Anyway, I think it's pretty good for an old man.
With over half a century of experience, we specialize in diagnosing and treating a wide range of tree diseases.
We proudly serve the communities of Mesa, Scottsdale, Tempe, Gilbert, Chandler, Sun Lakes, and Apache Junction, Arizona.
If your trees are showing signs of illness, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at 480-969-8808. Let our expertise work for you.
Our focus is solely on diagnosing and treating tree diseases, ensuring your trees get the specialized care they deserve.
Using an online program, I created avatars for my wife Pat. I also used sophisticated artificial intelligence programs to make images and other programs to convert the text that was generated by the artificial intelligence into speech.
Finally, I merged these features together to create over 200 videos. You can view these videos on tree disease on the following websites:
I've been a Tree Surgeon (that’s the old name for Arborist) for over 45 years, furthermore Warner’s Tree Surgery has been serving Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe, Chandler Arizona , Scottsdale and parts of Phoenix for over 20 years.
This is important for you to know, because our harsh dry summers present a unique challenge to the health of many tree species. For instance, just one wrong cut- on a tree that is susceptible to sunburn - like a Citrus or an Ash tree can cause permanent damage and forever harm a tree that took years to mature.
