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reporting on an apple tree, two years later much rabbit damage is
a_plutonium wrote: wrote: In article . com, a_plutonium wrote: I had some awful rabbit attacks on a locust sapling and a 5 year old apple tree whose trunk was about the thickness of my upper arm. The rabbits ate all the way around and about a band width of my hand. I had thought both were going to die. But the locust started putting green circular spots where the rabbits had eaten and the tree is coming back in full force. The apple tree was hit worse by the rabbits and appears as though the leaves are coming in full force also. Get some tree protectors before next winter. So what is the deal with cambium and what does it take to kill a tree by its cambium? It's not unusual for severely damaged trees like this to start to leaf in the spring, using resources already present in the branches, but if the trees are as severely girdled as you describe, the new growth will soon shrivel and die. You may be able to save the trees by bridge grafting if you act fast enough. The trees will probably try to come back from below the damage, but if this tissue is below the graft you won't get the apples you expect. For the locust, you can let it put up root sprouts, and clip off most of them, letting the others develop into trunks. Good luck! I promised to check back and report how this apple tree had done. It was severely girdled by rabbits and had just a sliiver of bark that was continuous upward. But it leafed out as normal and the barren bark trunk turned greenish and is now as normal. So my conclusion is that rabbits rarely kill a plant. They kill things like my baby pine trees when they eat off the top leaving nothing but a stalk with no needles remaining. That is the only time I have seen rabbits actually killing a plant I planted. So I think rabbit damage is bad for nurseries buying and selling plant stock, but for the actually killing of plant stock is somewhat overblown and hype. It leafed out the year after rabbit girdling and I was hoping it would bridge the damage. But this year it is completely dead. I wonder if anyone has done a comparison analysis of the damage of winter-burn to evergreens compared to rabbit girdling. Archimedes Plutonium www.iw.net/~a_plutonium whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies |
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