We lost a pine tree and a maple tree in the storm. Tree guys who came to cut down and hawl away the trees damaged my Peach tree. My only apricot branch (about a foot long) got damaged too. The branches I treated like grafting and wrapped with parafilm and taped. Trunk is damaged too. But I don’t know what to do about it. What can I do to help it heal? Will it be ok as it is now?
i think the damaged branch should heal up if you taped it good. I did this once with an apple tree that broke the main trunk in early spring and it healed.
Any idea what to do about the trunk? That’s my main concern.
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I don’t think there is much to do, the damage has been done. It is only on one side it appears so it should heal up fine. I have read several threads here on how trees heal and it seems like there are different schools of thought but I might try to wrap it or wax it to keep it from drying out so the natural healing process can take place
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I mostly agree with Derby, but I’m not sure about covering the wounded scar. I’d probably leave it alone. In either event your tree should be fine, I think.
As for your tree guys! Well, I don’t know the circumstances, but Dang! you hire somebody to help and you don’t expect them to mess things up on you.
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Yes I would just leave it the trunk alone, it will heal.
Maybe send the tree guys some pix to get some compensation. I have gotten compensation on fruit tree damage before. I don’t make a big deal of it but it never hurts to ask is my feeling.
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Ripped bark will often reattach when promptly taped back in place tightly. Obviously it’s too late for that, but wounds like that shouldn’t slow development of the tree appreciably, although it may be a couple years before callous completely closes the wound.
Taping the split peach branch might be a bit of a crap shoot if the wound still weakens it when it bears a crop load- seems oversized anyway compared to other branches left on tree. With peaches, I sometimes use a branch to rebuild a tree by taping it to the trunk (making the two parallel and perpendicular) above it to replace the trunk the next season. New scaffolds to be formed from the new trunk. But the photograph doesn’t show the whole tree so I’m not sure what’s needed.
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So the ripped piece was at the end of a scaffold? I thought the rip was off the trunk.
Very bottom of the trunk got ripped. Closest to ground. You can slightly see that in the second pic.