I've read back through your posts.
I've also clicked there. I hadn't seen that site yet, thanks Mike.
Here's an image from that site. There's a bunch of good ones.
"wall 4' is shown here just beneath underside of the old edge of the original open wound. Why is that whole line not wall 1? Because 1 starts far more internally, a chemical change where there is no cell growth or cell die-back. the wood there is technically already dead, likely active in transportation of water up the xylem tubes, but rigid, structural non-living tissue. Wall 4, shown here accurately comes in at the area where wall 1, the initial injury response line meets nearer the original wound site. There, new cell growth begins quite soon after the wounding, but progresses slowly (in human time).
This wall 4 is in association with new wood cells being laid down near the surface site of the wound shows on the same line as wall 1, but where does one become the other? Where new callus growth has stimulated the formation of a new defense line. Wall 4 allows new callus to form right at the forefront of the decay. The new wood formation continues, fungus working away
just the other side of this biological shield.
At some point, this wall 4 model segues into the wound closure model, which as we've all agreed upon. As I see it, wall 4 tapers slowly to nothing as wound closure blossoms to completeness, but that's in a perfect scenario. Nature is not perfect. Wound closure doesn't often happen to completion. It's a hit or miss, based on tree specie, tree age, fungal specie(s), moisture, and a number of other factors, the most important being wound size, shape and
tree vigor.
Wound closure is seperated off at some point from the CODIT process because wound closure may or may not ever happen. The CODIT process, however, does. Biologically, the processes are not really seperate and distinct events, but science has seperated them to allow clear, distinct descriptions for we humans. I can appreciate that. Regardless of how we break it down, the trees defenses vs the saprophytic invasion of fungi is the game at work.
Can CODIT be successful and complete, and the fungus still win?