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[Amelia Hayner <abhayner@gmail.com>]

Hi Ginda
he is right, that does work- speaking from experience with goat/sheep
partially girdling branches. Most of the time, LOTS of new growths spring up
around the wounds. you can just pick what you want, pull the rest off-
basically, this is just first aid, until you can get your next set of
scaffolding branches up and going- cause under the weight of fruit, it will
tend to snap at the weak place.
Amy

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 6:26 PM, david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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