How bout helping out a fellow expert,(plumbing page)? I live on the West coast of Florida. When Tropical Storm Gabriel came ashore a few days after 9/11 the combination of rain,(soggy soil) and wind toppled a Jacaranda Tree that was over fifty feet tall and forty eight years old. This tree has no tap root and the roots pulled right up out of the ground. I had the tree cut up and removed but soon after new trees started growing up from the roots. I cut back most of them but allowed three to continue growing. The biggest one is now twenty feet tall. However it's growing out of the end of a root that's about five or six inches in diameter. No "spreader" roots. just coming out of the one big root. Now these trees grow to be humungous. I worry that when it gets mature a strong wind will topple it into my neighbors pool cage. What's your take on this? Will the root system I have discribed be enough to anchor a mature Jacaranda? Should I cut them down? I would like to keep them, but not at the expense of my neighbors pool cage. Your thoughts?? Cheers, Tom aka speedball1