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  • From: david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>
  • To: Nat'l Ass'n of Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] rabbit damage to apple trees
  • Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:26:40 +0000


Ginda,
I haven't tried this - here in town I have no damage from rabbits - but it
occurs to me you could cut a twig from whatever branch is damaged and "bridge
graft" it over some of the damage.

You might try splitting a twig and inserting each end into a slit in the bark
on either side of the damage, tie off with grafting tape and look in on it
each week to see how it does. By June I imagine the tape would no longer be
needed, but you must be the judge of that.

Hope you save your apple grafts.

Dave Liezen

> From: list@ginda.us
> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 21:38:20 -0400
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] rabbit damage to apple trees
>
> Over the winter, the high snow allowed rabbits to crew on limbs of my apple
> trees. They have removed quite a lot of bark from the top side of many
> major branches, and white wood shows. I really don't want to prune off all
> the damaged wood if I don't have to. On one tree, a well-placed scaffold is
> damaged, and on another, there's damage on almost all of the parts that
> were grafted. (It's a crab apple with several eating apples grafted on
> years ago.)
>
> So -- Do I have to remove the damaged limbs? Is the bark along the bottom
> of each branch enough to keep it alive? Or will it be weak and prone to rot
> even if it doesn't die right away?
>
> thanks,
> Ginda
> eastern MA, zone 6
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