Tree Problems? Download Purdue’s New Tree Doctor App

Source: www.TurfMagazine.com

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Check out the new smart phone app (Purdue Tree Doctor) that will help you diagnose and find recommendations to manage more than 175 tree problems on over 60 kinds of trees. It’s like having Purdue University’s library of photos and recommendations in your pocket when trying to make a diagnosis. More importantly, you will be able to use these high-resolution photos to help convince your clients of the accuracy of your diagnosis and of the need to make important management decisions.

If you know which type of tree you have (maple, oak, pine etc.) the app will help you match damaged plant parts with over 1,000 high-resolution photos, based upon the location of the problem: leaves, branches, stems, roots, etc. Once you have a tentative diagnosis you can double check it by following links on each photo to detailed descriptions of damage and stages of problem development. From there you can get advice for management. Alternatively, if you know the problem, you can use the aps to find management tips by searching through our problem list. This app is useful for most problems you will encounter in the Midwestern and Eastern United States.

For those of you with spotty Internet connections, you will be pleased to know that we designed the Purdue Tree Doctor to have all of its critical information and photos on the phone in a modest package size (250 mb) with a modest price.

The Purdue Tree Doctor costs $1.99 and is available now for the I-Phone, and the I-Pod touch at i-tunes here.

If you download it from the I-tunes store via a web browser you can put it on your I-pad and enjoy the larger pictures and format. For those of you without phone or data plans, you can buy an I-phone touch and gain access to this information. Purdue is developing the application for Android phones and expect it to be out soon.