What is coming out tells you most of it. A wet, dark, slimy streak running down from a crack, an old pruning wound, or a branch crotch, drying gray or tan, sometimes smelling sour or fermented, with flies and wasps working it. White or tan foam bubbling out of the bark in hot weather. Clear sticky sap or amber blobs, especially with sawdust-like frass or a hole at the center. Dark rusty, oily-looking streaks running down from a sunken area of bark, where cutting the bark shows reddish-brown discolored tissue underneath. Note the location too: from the root flare, from a wound, or from apparently nowhere.
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Fluid leaving a trunk means internal pressure plus a path out, and what it means depends entirely on which of the above you have. Bacterial wetwood, or slime flux, is a chronic fermentation in the heartwood that builds gas pressure and pushes liquid out through any opening — unsightly, hard on the grass it runs onto, essentially untreatable, and carried by many trees for decades without decline. It is not a reason to remove a tree. Alcoholic or foamy flux is a seasonal yeast fermentation in stressed sapwood and usually passes. Sap with frass means an insect is inside. Dark bleeding from a sunken canker means an active pathogen is killing bark and cambium, and that one carries a real prognosis. Two of the four are essentially cosmetic; two are not.
This is normally a hazardous tree removal job, which around here runs $800 to $5,000 depending on size and access. Treat that as a range, not a quote — nobody can price it without seeing it.
820 S Roena St, Indianapolis, IN 46241
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Jenny Rollins · 2 years ago · Google
1401 Lindley Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46241
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4484 N Vinewood Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46254
“Jesus and his crew did a fantastic job for a fair price! A free quote was provided and the job was started the next week in one day with excellent…”
Nikki · 2 months ago · Google
5150 Mecca St, Indianapolis, IN 46241
“Condados Tree Service was able to come out and give me a free quote and put me in their calendar immediately to get an extremely large tree removed…”
Ashe Amos · a year ago · Google
5050 Freyn Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46254
“Henry, arborist, quoted my job and pointed out a damaged cherry tree two feet from my house I hadn’t seen. I wanted a company with the right…”
Roberta Arsenault · 2 months ago · Google
6565 Coffman Rd Bldg D, Indianapolis, IN 46268
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Shannon Rogers · 6 months ago · Google
1360 E 30th St, Indianapolis, IN 46205
“I had asked multiple tree companies to remove a partially fallen Ash tree that was lodged in between an adjacent tree. No company would touch it…”
Jeff C. Indianapolis · 4 months ago · Google
4404 W 72nd St, Indianapolis, IN 46268
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Donna Collins · 4 months ago · Google
7059 Eagle Rd, Indianapolis, IN 46278
“I was looking for some sidewalk repair and Mr. Martinez was recommended. Absolutely top-quality work at a very reasonable cost. Ruben is a consummate…”
Clint Collins · 2 years ago · Google
4180 N Keystone Ave, Indianapolis, IN 46205
“We are absolutely thrilled with the work Brad and Nova Tree Care did on 3 of our backyard trees. Probably the best experience, and price, we’ve had…”
Kathryn DeCloedt · 3 months ago · Google
2213 E 45th St, Indianapolis, IN 46205
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Jacque Green · 4 months ago · Google
5340 W 79th St, Indianapolis, IN 46268
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Info Eagle arborist · 6 months ago · Google
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