Death by Strimmer?

[Rowan Girl]

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

[Treemoose]

Are you sure that's not been nibbled? Or was the strimmer man out that day?

[Ant-h83]

Looks like he set out to strim the trees, that grass doesn't look like it's been touched

[Rowan Girl]

"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

[Rowan Girl]

Looks like he set out to strim the trees, that grass doesn't look like it's been touched

 

Thanks for the giggles - I need it

[Ant-h83]

Lol if you don't want your trees touched by strimmer man again put dog sh*t round em, strumming in turd filled gardens is the pits haha

[Rowan Girl]

We have 7 dogs.......That won't be hard to arrange............

Lol

[openspaceman]

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

 

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.

[Rowan Girl]

PS just to confirm, "Strimmer Man" is my other half........... For the time being anyway...........

[Rowan Girl]

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.

 

Excellent news....... Much better than I hoped for. What can I do to help it? Just keep it stable in winds etc?