Hi all, I’d like to ask for help with the following issue. I have a young (3-year) multi-grafted apricot on Krymsk-1 rootstock, with two Zard stems, one Harglow stem, and one Sweetheart stem. I previously also had a Sugar Pearl stem, but last Spring, after leafing out and blooming, it wilted and I it cut off as low as I could. I also noticed that in Winter this Sugar Pearl stem oozed sap, don’t know if its wilting was related to that.
Anyway, the Sugar Pearl demise did not affect the other stems, and the two Zard stems produced their first fruit this past season. But now I noticed one of these stems also started oozing sap – see a picture (the whitish stuff is dried up sap). Searching old topics, I see people asking about a similar problem and getting contradictory answers, but their pictures seem slightly different from mine. So, looking at my particular picture, what would you recommend? Leaving it as is and hope for the best? Excising the affected area and sealing it with wax? Cutting this stem only? Spraying it with something? Or is the whole tree doomed and needs to be cut down completely (since all the stems grow from the same root crown – they are really more of low branches than independent stems). I will add that I have a plum tree that leaked twice in the past, but is doing OK – the leaks stopped.
Many thanks for any advice!
