To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Any advice for Wound cover for large pruning cuts on stone fruit
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:40:01 -0700 (PDT)
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