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Tree repair
The wind in Brisbane knocked the top out of one of our ornamental flowering
gums (Corymbia ficifolia x onto a graft - market name is 'Eucalyptus Summer Beauty') and I'm going to try and see if it can be repaired as the bark / phloem is intact for about half the stem diameter. So far, we've cut most of the leaf mass off the broken top, wrapped sticky bandage around the break and wet a towel around the break and staked the whole lot for support. I'm hoping it may callus over as the break is about half-way up the 2m stem. If it fails, I'll have to chop it back and let it reshoot, but its paired with another flowering gum in the garden, so I'd like to try and heal it first. Any more ideas? Amanda |
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A&G&K&H wrote:
The wind in Brisbane knocked the top out of one of our ornamental flowering gums (Corymbia ficifolia x onto a graft - market name is 'Eucalyptus Summer Beauty') and I'm going to try and see if it can be repaired as the bark / phloem is intact for about half the stem diameter. So far, we've cut most of the leaf mass off the broken top, wrapped sticky bandage around the break and wet a towel around the break and staked the whole lot for support. I'm hoping it may callus over as the break is about half-way up the 2m stem. If it fails, I'll have to chop it back and let it reshoot, but its paired with another flowering gum in the garden, so I'd like to try and heal it first. Any more ideas? Amanda G'day Amanda! Exactly the same catastrophe happened to my E.cladocalyx nana (Dwarf Sugar Gum) about twenty nine years ago. A massive storm broke the sapling nearly in half and left only about a half of the stem intact. Not only that, but a longitudinal split went up and down from the wound, making it one that damaged about four inches of the main stem! All I did was splint it with a couple of paddle-pop sticks and wrap it in sticky tape. I was too demoralised to do much else (thought I'd lost the tree, which had only been in the ground about a month and was already about six inches taller than me). Long story short, the tree grew and flourished and is now a fully-grown beauty at my Mum's place. There's no longer any trace of the original wound, but for a few years after the accident, there was a bit of a callus and a lozenge-shaped scar. Of course, you'd be hard put to spot it in the thick, nubbly bark of the adult tree, but I'd say go ahead and repair yours - there's no reason it shouldn't flourish. I'd strongly advise splinting the wound with one or more paddle-pop sticks against the stem to support it as it heals. Use pantihose or something that's not going to effectively ringbark the tree as it grows. Oh, and *leave it alone* to let Nature do her job! HTH, -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, Australia |
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"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... A&G&K&H wrote: The wind in Brisbane knocked the top out of one of our ornamental flowering gums (Corymbia ficifolia x onto a graft - market name is 'Eucalyptus Summer Beauty') and I'm going to try and see if it can be repaired as the bark / phloem is intact for about half the stem diameter. So far, we've cut most of the leaf mass off the broken top, wrapped sticky bandage around the break and wet a towel around the break and staked the whole lot for support. I'm hoping it may callus over as the break is about half-way up the 2m stem. If it fails, I'll have to chop it back and let it reshoot, but its paired with another flowering gum in the garden, so I'd like to try and heal it first. Any more ideas? Amanda G'day Amanda! Exactly the same catastrophe happened to my E.cladocalyx nana (Dwarf Sugar Gum) about twenty nine years ago. A massive storm broke the sapling nearly in half and left only about a half of the stem intact. Not only that, but a longitudinal split went up and down from the wound, making it one that damaged about four inches of the main stem! All I did was splint it with a couple of paddle-pop sticks and wrap it in sticky tape. I was too demoralised to do much else (thought I'd lost the tree, which had only been in the ground about a month and was already about six inches taller than me). Long story short, the tree grew and flourished and is now a fully-grown beauty at my Mum's place. There's no longer any trace of the original wound, but for a few years after the accident, there was a bit of a callus and a lozenge-shaped scar. Of course, you'd be hard put to spot it in the thick, nubbly bark of the adult tree, but I'd say go ahead and repair yours - there's no reason it shouldn't flourish. I'd strongly advise splinting the wound with one or more paddle-pop sticks against the stem to support it as it heals. Use pantihose or something that's not going to effectively ringbark the tree as it grows. Oh, and *leave it alone* to let Nature do her job! HTH, -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, Australia Thanks Trish you wonder woman! This fills me with hope that our dear little gum (note I used the word "gum" just so that you wouldn't get upset with me calling them Corymbias will come good eventually. I'm itching to give it a good soaking with the hose, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow morning when I'm allowed to use the hose and not have to bucket water to it ... Amanda |
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A&G&K&H wrote:
snip This fills me with hope that our dear little gum (note I used the word "gum" just so that you wouldn't get upset with me calling them Corymbias will come good eventually. I'm itching to give it a good soaking with the hose, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow morning when I'm allowed to use the hose and not have to bucket water to it ... Amanda Thenk yew! ;-D Yes, it's hard to resist the temptation to give it extra feeding and watering etc, isn't it? You want to promote secondary thickening, not linear growth at this stage. Slowly does it! I hope the little tree survives! -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, Australia |
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"A&G&K&H" wrote: The wind in Brisbane knocked the top out of one of our ornamental flowering gums (Corymbia ficifolia x onto a graft - market name is 'Eucalyptus Summer Beauty') and I'm going to try and see if it can be repaired as the bark / phloem is intact for about half the stem diameter. snip Any more ideas? None -- but good luck! I have a Summer Beauty and I love it. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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"Chookie" wrote in message ... In article , "A&G&K&H" wrote: The wind in Brisbane knocked the top out of one of our ornamental flowering gums (Corymbia ficifolia x onto a graft - market name is 'Eucalyptus Summer Beauty') and I'm going to try and see if it can be repaired as the bark / phloem is intact for about half the stem diameter. snip Any more ideas? None -- but good luck! I have a Summer Beauty and I love it. We've got the Summer Red as well, and there's a newer one thats got magenta flowers ..... but at the moment I can't fit it into the garden .... unless I want to give up my "reserved" space for the waratah I'm planning on acquiring at some point in time We did get a similar tree that is supposed to have orange flowers but its not from the same bunch that do the Summer x series ... its never flowered and is developing waaay beyond the 2 m specimen promised on the tag (and its not comming off the graft). ...maybe I could sacrifice that one ....... Our Summer Red is flowering now (early), but it looks like we won't be getting too many Summer Beauty flowers this year Amanda |
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Tree repair
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... A&G&K&H wrote: snip This fills me with hope that our dear little gum (note I used the word "gum" just so that you wouldn't get upset with me calling them Corymbias will come good eventually. I'm itching to give it a good soaking with the hose, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow morning when I'm allowed to use the hose and not have to bucket water to it ... Amanda Thenk yew! ;-D Yes, it's hard to resist the temptation to give it extra feeding and watering etc, isn't it? You want to promote secondary thickening, not linear growth at this stage. Slowly does it! I hope the little tree survives! Right you are. I dare not say too much about it yet as I don't want to jinx what looks to be happening ... I'll keep you posted. Amanda PS - Trish ... I've swapped ISPs and won't be able to get a.b anymore from next month. I shall also send you my new e-mail addy *now* before I forget. A |
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