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  • Damaged bark on young cherry tree - repair advice please!

    Hello all.

    I have a 3 year old dessert/sweet cherry that I have had in an airpot for a year, decided yesterday to plant in in the front garden. After planting, I decided the stake needed to go in a few extra inches, the sledgehammer glanced off the stake and I scraped the bark. It's not a big wound, but I'm worried about disease because it's a prunus and we're in winter. The edges are a little bit jagged, should I clean and dress? Clean and leave open? Do nothing?

    Any advice would be very much appreciated.

    B

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    Hello B I wouldn't clean it with any liquid,you can put some arbrex straight on it. If you do nothing it could be fine but I wouldn't want to take a risk.
    Last edited by Jungle Jane; 18-12-2016, 12:00 PM.
    Location : Essex

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    • #3
      Thanks Jane. I've trimmed the rough edge and painted the wound. Fingers crossed

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