Many things can cause a wound in a tree, but healing it is quick and easy. Kenny Williams from W&W Nursery shows how to go about treating a scar on trees naturally and chemical-free.
‘The Street Smart Gardener’ is a gardening-based ‘why to’ web series (webisode) developed for the average gardener. The series is fresh, entertaining, funny, and educational. The creator and host is Kenny Williams, a renowned landscape artist and owner of W&W Nursery in Apalachin, NY. W&W Nursery has been in business for over 20 years and is the largest independent Nursery and Garden Center in New York’s Southern Tier. Kenny’s unique tips, tricks…and humor… will enlighten and entertain you, no matter how green your thumb.
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I have a tree that I "accidentally" girdled. I had a rope tied to the trunk to help support the tree against high winds and this year everything above where the rope was tied did not bloom and appears to be dead. Should I top off the dead trunk and branches above the girdle? Will the tree survive or should I just leave it alone for a year and see what happens?
Is there something to heal a tree completely, like say some mix of yohgurt and moss or something? If I punch a hole in a tree, is it possible to heal that hole?
'Keep your crack clean'
gets a +1 from me
you're a fucking idiot, you have no clue what you're on about
ANY herbicide is too much!!! wtf
I have a 5 year old Crape Myrtle. We had a thunderstorm that caused another branch to shear of the a limb on the CM. What should I do. Or can anything be done?
trees and plants do NOT ever HEAL only cover over the wound he is correct in cutting bark to keep wound dry so wood does not rot. but to go into tissue that was sealing tree{live} no way. i would cut 1/4 inch less and let bark break off naturly
Trees SEAL, they do not heal.
Years ago I got a serious chain saw injury while in a formal arboriculture program. My wound healed. Every layer of skin and tissue, even the nerves grew back. When a tree is wounded, it does not grow back the same way. The bark grows over the wound to SEAL it. All the previous damage is still in the tree. It does not heal the way my chain saw cut did, layer by layer.
Trees seal, they do not heal.
Ask a real tree man, not a gardener.
I am a very good tree man, but not a good gardener. There is a difference.
Lets grow Green together… Famous last words
A piece of shit dog ripped the bark off my Mimosa
What if your dog chews your tree all the way around where there is 1 foot of it without any bark at all (all the way around… i.e. doggy girdled)?
but people worry about insect intrusion, like a Beetle. And THAT is where it would attack. I'm no expert, just talking
uh….Knife?
Mother Nature's Woodboring Beetle may climb right inside your tree and cast hundreds of Woodworms up in it. My tree looked just as healthy as its brothers nearby before it started spliting in half. Woodworms had come and gone in silence leaving the tree standing firewood
I have a wound at the base of my 4 year old olive tree. Would you know what I can do about it? Hard to find help about this. I can email you a pic of what it looks like
That’s the right answer! Thanks 😊.
this man really made a youtube video to peal some bark off and y’all about my crack
when the tree limb and branches was cut off.will still able to grow back ?
why don't you use toilet paper instead of felco's….liberal sarcasm!!!!! please don't make anymore videos unless your professional or make a video on how to wipe your butt
I have several quarter(coin) size diameter branches on big pine tress that I need to have little to no sap drippings. I just cut them with loppers. Thay are directly in sun all day. Any suggestions ?
a good mix of orange oil from rind and beeswax is a natural preservative that I have seen help facilitate wound closure (callous "in rolling") (and also make the exposed surface less hospitable to those elements which might try to invade during the trees' sealing process. Lather it on, and include the union of where the exposed wood is and it's connection to the uninjured part of the tree.
AFTER it heals naturally THEN put a sealer on the wood portion to keep the wood from rotting.