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I came home from work this afternoon to be greeted with the attempted murder of one of my young plum trees............

 

I've looked into bridge grafting - would anyone suggest I need to go down this route with this wounded plum or should i just sit back and hope for the best? Is it likely to survive?

 

Tomorrow I will be making safe all my other trees from the fiend who did this, or I'll be smashing the strimmer into smithereens....... Fingers crossed we'll be on speaking terms again tomorrow :angryfire:

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"Strimmer Man" was out........... Grrrrr....... He even admitted to it......... Then got hissy with me for throwing a fit..........

Deffo strimmer damage ........

 

Can I help it without bridge grafting?

 

I see it mentions covering with polythene on this thread:

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/69982-experimenting-vasaline-3.html

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I came home from work this afternoon to be greeted with the attempted murder of one of my young plum trees............

 

I've looked into bridge grafting - would anyone suggest I need to go down this route with this wounded plum or should i just sit back and hope for the best? Is it likely to survive?

 

Tomorrow I will be making safe all my other trees from the fiend who did this, or I'll be smashing the strimmer into smithereens....... Fingers crossed we'll be on speaking terms again tomorrow :angryfire:

 

It looks like there's enough intact bark on one side for the tree to survive if it can put on enough callus to withstand breaking off.

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