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  • From: Jwlehman@aol.com
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Summer pruning
  • Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:46:33 EDT

In a message dated 8/23/2010 2:03:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dwoodard@becon.org writes:

>But I didn't think about wound-healing. Does it really take weeks to
>heal over a wound? I mean, we've probably got almost two months before
>our first freeze. Do I have to worry about it healing by then?


Yes it does and the larger the wound the longer to heal over. Large limbs cut off can take years to heal over. If you prune now I doubt if the collar would even form to begin healing over.

Jerry



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