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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

What about using silicone caulk for damaged bark?  I read (either in Pomona,
or somewhere) that good success was achieved for a tree with a rotted trunk
that was covered in silicone.  The new bark healed right over the silicone.
Isn't it a fairly inert substance?  We even cook with it(Wife bought
silicone spatulas-Pampered Chief.  Cost a fortune, but they look pretty).
Some silicones have mold inhibitors.  I don't know what effect they would
have on plant tissues.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucky Pittman" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] parafilm request--THANKS


> At 01:34 PM 3/12/2007, you wrote:
> >I got so many replies to this, I have to say enough & many thanks.
> >
> >Some related off-list discussion was about using parafilm to wrap
> >damaged trunks,
> >for example, if you had some mouse- or rabbit-girdling but perhaps
> >not all the way
> >through all the cambium.  Wrapping w/ parafilm should help prevent
> >the remaining
> >cambium from drying out & dying.  Yes, no?  Can others describe
> >their attempts at
> >this?
> I'd say...a reserved 'yes' - but you've gotta apply it pretty rapidly
> - like within minutes of the time you accidentally wham into the tree
> with the lawnmower(D@mn!) and knock that chunk of bark off.
> Or, my preference, thanks to Doc Lisenby and an old friend in Iowa,
> is to liberally apply a thick 'poultice' of fresh cow manure - it
> forms a nice crust on the outside, but stays moist for a considerable
> time underneath, and pH/bacterial populations seem to inhibit fungal
growth.
> But, as most folks on the list probably don't have ready access to
> fresh cow manure, Parafilm is probably the next best thing.
> The Iowa friend's grandfather sealed all his grafts with a liberal
> slathering of cow manure, after wrapping with cotton string.
>
> Lucky
>
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