Product to seal cut wound on tree?

[treeplanter]

I'll have it where is it ?

 

 

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[MATTMOSS]

Why all the advice to leave a long stub? what's wrong with pruning to the collar?

[PHAS]

Well you'll have to wait a while mate, tree seems ok at the mo but it's in mk

 

 

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[PHAS]

I usually cut to the collar, the tree will naturally try and remove a branch at this point so leaving a long stub makes more work for the tree in my opinion

 

 

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[felixthelogchopper]

Well it is if you absolutely have to keep it but any tree with a bit of fungus on it is only a chainsaw away from firewood...................

 

And rightly so, they're killers you know! And worth thousands too!!!

[18 stoner]

Why all the advice to leave a long stub? what's wrong with pruning to the collar?

 

I usually cut to the collar, the tree will naturally try and remove a branch at this point so leaving a long stub makes more work for the tree in my opinion

 

 

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Just another forward bit of thinking for pruning large limbs. The idea being pathogens will encroach from the cut end, so if its further from the trunk it will take longer to decay the main stem.

 

We have been carrying this procedure out for several years now, especially on protected stuff, as it seems to meet the approval of the LA after one of the TO's suggested it.

 

Obviously avoiding large wounds is a must if possible, but in the case of damage pruning, something has to be done.

[Phil71]

Just another forward bit of thinking for pruning large limbs. The idea being pathogens will encroach from the cut end, so if its further from the trunk it will take longer to decay the main stem.

 

We have been carrying this procedure out for several years now, especially on protected stuff, as it seems to meet the approval of the LA after one of the TO's suggested it.

 

Obviously avoiding large wounds is a must if possible, but in the case of damage pruning, something has to be done.

 

Doesn't leaving a long stub provide a food source for a pathogen to use as fuel while it attacks the trees defences?

[treequip]

Doesn't leaving a long stub provide a food source for a pathogen to use as fuel while it attacks the trees defences?

 

Yes but that's how it happens in nature and I would say nature has the edge in experience

[Phil71]

Yes but that's how it happens in nature and I would say nature has the edge in experience

 

Then what's the point in proper pruning cuts? Have the ****** got it right after all??

[Phil71]

Then what's the point in proper pruning cuts? Have the ****** got it right after all??

 

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