Over the winter a deer or something munched this lower branch of my cherry tree. I cut the damaged branch off, and I saw green underneath so I hoped it would be fine. The bark now has an 8 inch split straight down the middle, and I noticed sap popping out in several places. This is still a young tree and I would rather take the loss now if thats the best option. I got no blossoms this year, just leaves.
by Head-Pomegranate-547
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It’s worth giving it a year to see what it does, but that’s a nasty wound (the bark, which I think may have been deer rubbing). Keep the tree watered this season.
Try reading the good book to it and sprinkling it with holy water. It will probably get to heaven.
Oh, that’s pretty bad. Some of it looks like a frost crack. Those happen when the sun heats up the bark on the south side and when the temperature drops at night – crack! Sort of like throwing an ice cube into a glass of water. Even if the tree manages to grow over the damage it will always be there. Insects and diseases will be a constant problem.
If you get a new tree, wrap the trunk with proper tree wrap and make sure it is watered well in the fall. Trees lose moisture even when they don’t have leaves.
Thank you all for the advice, and if anyone notices the MONSTER walnut tree in the background and has advice about what to say to get either the city or the power company to stop trying to shove removal onto me when there is a transformer on the power pole that the dead branches wrap around, let me know. I keep getting told I have to make it their problem, but they come out and say its the other ones problem or come when I am not home and just do nothing.