mattpower
New Member
hi all,
I planted a brandywine crabapple (perhaps 3 or 4 years old) in my front yard here in brooklyn. It's been doing fine, generally, but today a kid from the neighborhood was helping me out and he accidentally cut the bark on the trunk with a shovel. He took off a piece about the size of a quarter, straight through the bark down to green wood, and another piece the size of a dime. The tree is about 2 inches in diameter, so the wound covers maybe a quarter of the circumference. I know apple trees will eventually build up a callus over a wound, but will it entirely cover the wound, or will there always be bare wood? Will that part of the cambium ever recover, and will the injury effect the tree's long term health and growth? Is there anything I can do to help it heal faster? I've heard tree paint doesn't help.
Sorry for having so many questions, but I love this tree.
thanks,
Matt
I planted a brandywine crabapple (perhaps 3 or 4 years old) in my front yard here in brooklyn. It's been doing fine, generally, but today a kid from the neighborhood was helping me out and he accidentally cut the bark on the trunk with a shovel. He took off a piece about the size of a quarter, straight through the bark down to green wood, and another piece the size of a dime. The tree is about 2 inches in diameter, so the wound covers maybe a quarter of the circumference. I know apple trees will eventually build up a callus over a wound, but will it entirely cover the wound, or will there always be bare wood? Will that part of the cambium ever recover, and will the injury effect the tree's long term health and growth? Is there anything I can do to help it heal faster? I've heard tree paint doesn't help.
Sorry for having so many questions, but I love this tree.
thanks,
Matt
