A part of our tree snapped after a spring snowstorm – any tips to help us save the rest of the tree?
by Desperate-Eye-2830
A part of our tree snapped after a spring snowstorm – any tips to help us save the rest of the tree?
by Desperate-Eye-2830
8 Comments
Its done. Remove it. Unless there is nothing that can be damaged when the rest of it falls. It might survive like this for many more years.
But you don’t seal that wound. It needs air circulation.
Just let it be a tree.
Hope I’m wrong. Likely fatal. Sorry. Done in by the snow on the leaves. You’ll know soon which leaves droop.
Nothing you can do just let it be. Apples can live a long time with crazy wounds but this will will cause the decaying process to begin and it will also open up the tree to pathogens.
There are two ways to look at this:
– enjoy it for however long you can
– remove and replace it so that you can get another tree started towards maturity
Slaps some Vick’s Vaporub on it. My Abuela swears by that stuff.
Put a chainsaw on it
Neosporin
Don’t seal it. CODIT will take care of it. Only thing that worries me is it peeling bark when it falls eventually. I’d call an arborist with TRAQ certification to assess any potential risk to property.