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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

Ginda,
If these limbs are what you want on this stock, bu all means give 'em a 
season to heal. If they are at all as vigorous as my other apples, healing 
will be substantial by fall and will give you a better idea what to expect. 
Splinting will help, provided you are careful not to damage the limb further 
with rubbing due to wind motion.

Hope it goes well,
Dave Liezen
 
> From: list@ginda.us
> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:08:12 -0400
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] rabbit damage to apple trees
> 
> Thanks, Amy. That actually argues that it's not worth it. There's no real 
> value in keeping the limbs for one or two seasons. In the one case, I like 
> the placement of the limb, but the tree is large enough to do fine without 
> it, and tall and full enough that it's unlikely to replace a limb that low. 
> In the other, the damaged limbs, which I grafted on 10 years ago, are the 
> only thing interesting about the tree, which is otherwise a random seedling 
> crab. 
> 
> Ginda
> eastern MA, zone 6
> 
> On Apr 10, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Amelia Hayner wrote:
> 
> > 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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