Though I ’m no arborist , I have helped my bonnie share of damaged Tree . This hurricane season has break the limbs and trunks on a lot of darling Tree – and I ’d like to see masses save the ones they can .
S writes :
“ Thought you might have some brainstorm on how to handle a badly wounded tree diagram . Hurricane Irma rend my neem trees lower branches off and took a hefty chunk out of her bark . Should I slander vaseline on the lesion and gently bandage to keep bugs from fuck off into the tree ? How would you handle such a trouble ? Lost almost all of my banana , pawpaw and all the eternal rest of my yield tree were sadly laying on the ground , looked like they go 10 rounds with Tyson in his prime ! We ’ve restaked most of our Tree , hopefully they ’ll make it . Have been working on my fruit forest for a few years now , so it was devastating at first to see the death . ”
My answer :
Do n’t coat them with anything . Just saw the break branches / trunks off a little bit below the price . Make the cuts on a slight diagonal . The trees will heal as they can and put out new maturation . When they do , pick out the best - looking shoot and eliminate the relaxation . Since they ’re a few year sometime , the etymon system should give them quite a little of strength to regrow .
Irma get some damage in The Great South Florida Food Forest Project . luckily , my sister Christi ( Miss Yamfit ) was there to help clean up after the price – and take some pictures I could share here .
Tithonia diversifoliaplants were criticize around :
Moringa trees were snapped and stripped :
A chaya bush was fight to the undercoat :
And , worst of all , our beloved West Indian cherry cherry was blow over .
This is what it looked like before :
And this is what it looks like now :
The tree diagram was blown to the ground and the trunk partially snapped . Christi call to ask what they could do to save it and I commend cutting it back to a few feet magniloquent , propping it back up , keeping it water so it ’s not under stress , and praying over it .
Dad and I constitute this tree back in 2013after he removed an quondam schefflerafrom the street corner of the house . It was one of his favorites , bearing an teemingness of sweet cherries off and on all year . We ’re all hoping it lives .
The fallen chaya is n’t a big sight , as chaya reproduces well via cuttings . And the ease of the pickle ? Well , it does n’t seem like much compared to Dominica , Puerto Rico , Texas , Barbuda and the many other places where serious storm price took billet .
If you have a bust up Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , prune it back to good Grant Wood , shore up it up if you may , take really full care of it and desire for the best . Some species will spring right back – others wo n’t . Time will tell .
Related posts:
Starting a Food Forest in Tennessee
The Great South Florida Food Forest Project Update,…
Varieties of Chaya
My parents in their food forest
David’s Beautiful Florida Food Forest Garden
Is a Food Forest for You?
It’s Food Forest GO TIME!
Wild food forest photos!
Grafting loquats
Plant ’em all and let God sort ’em…
