Jeff: I also admire and respect Dr. Shigo's research on trees. He is virtually
peerless. However, I often hear a "yes, but" response to this point about wound
dressing. That is, Dr. Shigo's research was on full sized trees mostly, was it
not? He did us a service in getting tree surgeons to stop adding insult to injury
by slopping on black wound paint or worse. But our bonsai are much smaller and the
wounds possibly a much more significant size for the overall size of the tree. Any
research on this particular issue?
Alan Walker, Lake Charles, LA, USA
http://LCBSBonsai.org http://bonsai-bci.com
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"Isom, Jeff (EM, PTL)" wrote:
One of the more knowledgeable folks up here in NE Ohio (Keith Scott) would heartily
agree with you Nina. He also would cite a source, Alex Shigo, who has apparently
done extensive testing (well documented testing according to Keith) with 1000's of
trees and determined that not only is cut paste not necessary, it actually inhibits
healing to a certain degree.
Jeff Isom
Cleveland, OH / Sunset Zone 39
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From: Nina Shishkoff ]
HI Nina
I had a wonderful cicatrizing material sort of yellow sap wood glue that dried and
fell in dust with time.. not available in the market anymore unfortunately sniff!
so I decided to make one myself
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I admire your sense of adventure. But I have to warn you that plant
pathologists trained at Cornell don't believe in cut paste. Our own
George Hudler did controlled experiments showing that it made no
difference. Now, other scientists have found other things, so you
are free to disagree. But Cornell has a fine old tradition of
ignoring what everybody else says!
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I took incense , mirrah (both are for smoldering) and bee wax (natural
one) I make a fine dust of the first two and mix with wax I get a sort of
material that is malleable .. some heat will melt and I can spam on the cuts and
it clogs again. adding fresh pine sap or a drop of turpentine/white spirit will
do the same..
I think that mix should preserve from water decay and diseases
what do you think ?
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I think it's going to smell fantastic!
I like the idea that those are all natural water-repelling materials,
and two of them are what plants use to seal wounds themselves. It
can't hurt, and it may work (just don't let George hear me say that).
Nina Shishkoff

Frederick, MD

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