@MuddyMess_8a I felt your pain so badly I joined you in the damage club. We just had a major storm pass through with reports of tornados and a wild cherry fell and landed in my little orchard. I haven’t fully assessed the damage but it fell on my electric fence and onto some of my trees. One of which I’m sure is my 8x1 combo apple tree. This sucks. Hopefully the damage is minimal. Just thankful that the family is safe and sound. We are out of power as well.
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What is it with these wild cherry trees targeting orchards? I bet it’s some kind of conspiracy trying to make this club grow. 
I’m really sorry to see that, Dave. I was hoping no one else would be enlisted in the club any time soon. It’s a lousy one to belong to. I’m glad the family is okay, though.
I’ll keep hoping that once yours is cleared away, the young trees wind up being less damaged than you expect.
I’m going to give your post a Like, not because I liked seeing that %*$^, but out of sympathy, empathy, and unity.
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sorry to hear the strom damage. Hope you get electricity back soon
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I’m literally with you 
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Y’all have given me even more reasons to trellis my trees. I’ve sunk poles and run vinyl-coated steel clothesline to support the branches of my fruit trees in an espalier type arrangement for many other reasons but branch support is a good motivation too. We typically don’t get high winds here unless a hurricane comes up the coast.
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Wow, Dave, that was a pretty big tree. Gosh, the weather has been awfully rough for some of our forum members. We’re in store for some blistering temps here over the weekend. Not looking forward to that. Slated to be over 100 here, which is pretty rare. Ugh.
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Got a closer look. The tree was a maple tree, not cherry. What you see in the picture was the top half of the tree. It broke about 25-30 feet up.
I got very lucky with my fruit trees. Only one tree was touched. My combo apple. You can see in the picture a bunch of grafts did on the tree. I lost the right half of the tree which was Honeycrisp and Akane . You can see 3 grafts that got broken, a goldrush, Darcy spicy, and I believe karmijn desonnaville. On the left are untouched goldrush, ashmeads, Arkansas black, and granny Smith. I’ll clean up the mess and cover the wound with pruning sealer and see if it survives.
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Isn’t it funny how damage, when it’s less than expected, seems like good news?
Now you can start thinking of what you put in place of the maple. Plus it will eventually be one less set of non-orchard tree roots competing for nutrients and water.
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So sorry to see that, David. All your hard work. If you need new HC or William’s Pride, let me know.
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