Hello you'all. I bought a tree from a friend, but the deers destroy it (yummy buds).
I noticed that the tree starts to grow some buds, but I don't know if it's on the good part of the grafting and what can I do (cutting the top part in winter, letting live like that?)
by Competitive-Party408
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The bud is above the graft union on the tree. The Graff union is where the upright root stock curves out slightly then goes upright. Anything growing above the graft union is the fruiting variety of cherry. You can let that bud grow out and become the new trunk of a tree. From the deer damage it’s definitely set back a couple years, but if you wanna be patient, you can still produce a tree out of that. You could also get a new cherry tree and get ahead two years. I would put a small fence around your cherry tree to keep the deer off of it.