On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:28:44 +0000, Spider wrote:

On 01/02/2015 18:41, FrankB wrote:


Trouble is it's not my tree but a friend whose garden I've been slowly
restoring. He won't be best pleased if I tell him I may have killed his
plum tree. I'm wondering whether I should warn him in advance.
I''ve got about ½" of projected branch left that I can further saw
back. The stuff I'm getting tomorrow isn't quite the same as your link
but according to Bayer serves the same purpose from the description
(below links). So I'll try that tomorrow and paint immediately. .

Here - http://tinyurl.com/n9lenaz and Here - http://tinyurl.com/q8h8uhc


Oh dear, that is worrying for you. Well, honesty is the best policy.
You wouldn't have harmed his tree deliberately and, indeed, you may not
have harmed it at all.
In your position, I would own up and explain about the extra cut, but
put it off until we get some good weather, perhaps April.
Your links were not underscored or useable, even when I entered them
myself. Sorry. I suspect they were images of the cut on the tree?

The best thing to do now is leave it to dry out. At the very most, you
could spray some copper solution on it (commercially available Bordeaux
mixture). Don't worry too much, although there's a risk, there's also a
good chance it will be just fine. IMHO the seal & heal stuff is a rip
off. Always a temptation to "do something", and of course in the past
wound sealers were recommended, but now pretty much any trained tree
person will tell you to let it dry naturally.

-E



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Gardening in Lower Normandy