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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

My stone-fruit pruning experience consists mostly of limbing up wild 
black-cherries
around ag fields.  I hope others w/ a better range of experience will comment.

With that disclaimer, I recommend you google 'Alex Shigo' and some pruning 
phrases. 
He did a lot of research on proper pruning cuts and found that a proper cut 
has more
to do with tree health than wound-coatings.

Why such large cuts?  Can you plan & prune differently to avoid such large 
cuts in
the future?  



--- eric <> wrote:

> Hello, this year I have to prune some large (5-6") branches out, and am
> wondering if anyone has experience with materials to protect the wound from
> fungus invasion. My normal diluted latex paint spray will likely not work
> well on such large wounds.
>  
> Thanks, Eric White, Zone 4 Vermont



 
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