Jim Lewis wrote:
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However, do not _ever_ try to wire and bend that branch!

Tree wounds do not "heal" like a broken bone heals. What you see
as "healing" is a thin layer of cells that have grown over the
broken part. Underneath the bark, the break is still just as
broken. ANY attempt at bending it in the foreseeable future will
lead to another break.

I almost always put a drop or two of model airplane cement on the
deadwood portion of a break before I try to repair it. That
doesn't make it any safer to wire and bend, but it keeps
accidents (a bird landing on the branch, brushing against it,
etc.) from being serious.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

I guess I wasn't clear--the purpose of the wire was only to support the
branch and hold it place as is--not to bend it.

Craig Cowing
NY
Zone 5b/6a

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