We treat wounds on fruit trees

Taking care of your garden is not an easy task. Everyone who owns a summer cottage knows how necessary competent tree care is for a decent harvest. It is important to understand that caring for fruit trees is not only about feeding them, pruning and treating them, but also mulching them. Wounds on fruit trees can do great harm to him. In no case should this event be neglected.

If you leave them unattended, the process of decay may begin, because the spores of pathogens enter the wood almost all the time, and if these wounds are left unattended, the tree may weaken and stop resisting diseases, its fruiting may decrease, or even the tree may die altogether. ...

Types of wounds on fruit trees 

Any wound is a violation of the integrity of the tree, any of its surfaces.

The types of damage in trees are usually classified as follows: mechanical wounds from cutting or breaking branches or parts of the crown; wounds from circular damage to bark and wood; circular lesion of the cortex; damage as a result of breaking off or tearing off the hollow; wounds of an infectious nature.

Treatment of trees must be carried out at a strictly defined time, otherwise it will not bring any results, despite the fact that the tree can be damaged at any time of the year. Most often, trees suffer from strong wind and frost, pests and various fungal diseases.

Allocate planned treatment and sanitary pruning.

Fruit trees can only be treated in late spring if it is warm or early summer. If the damage to the branches occurred at a different time of the year, then you need to have a garden pitch in service, which you need to disinfect and process the place of breakage. If everything is done promptly, it will help preserve living tissues, and will not infect the branch with microbes and fungal spores.

Preparing for wound healing on fruit trees

To treat fruit trees always begin with the fact that the surface of the wound is cleaned. On all branches that turned out to be unviable, rotted or broken, it is necessary to clean out the rot or fungal infection, since the cleanliness of the wound is what the successful treatment of the tree depends on.

Experienced gardeners determine by eye how to disinfect - where to rinse with water, where additional sterilization of wood, tools and hands is required.

Usually, iron or copper sulfate is used for disinfection - 5 and 10%, respectively, when using cytosporosis, the solution is usually made weaker. Formalin is used to process instruments, and vodka or cologne is used for hands.

Treatment of wounds on fruit trees after accidental sawing, pruning, breaking 

As soon as the pruning has been carried out or the broken branch has been removed, the place must be covered with garden varnish or painted with paint, which contains neither gasoline nor kerosene. These substances penetrate deep into the wood with lightning speed and, as it were, "freeze" the cells, which can lead to extremely long healing and the appearance of a hollow.

Treatment of wounds infectious wounds 

If the depth of damage is light or medium, the painful part is cleaned to the wood, along the way removing the part of the trunk that is healthy.Everything that has been removed must be burned so that the remnants of pathogens do not damage the rest of the tree. The wound is healed with garden varnish, or after disinfection, you can put a small bandage of gauze or a piece of cotton wool moistened with heteroauxin on the wound and cover it with a film, bandage it as tightly as possible. Every gardener should know about this drug - it accelerates the regeneration and growth of plant tissues.

Healing wounds from damage to bark and wood 

If the bark is partially damaged, then disinfection can be neglected, the site of damage should be covered with garden varnish or a bandage with heteroauxin should be put

Circular damage to bark and wood 

If the disease engulfs the trunk or branch in a ring, not only the branch, but the entire tree may die. Var will not do miracles in this case and you will need to transplant the bark or update the tree by grafting cuttings.

Wounds on the bark after onceoloma and tearing 

In this case, the wound can be treated with a garden varnish or heteroauxin, a broken branch is saved by fixation with a wire or staple. Work should be done as quickly as possible, while the decomposition process is not started in viable cells.

Hollow treatment 

If you do not pay enough attention to damage to the hollow, then the decay processes can trigger the slow death of the tree, up to destruction. On such a site it is required to put some kind of "seal". First we clean, rinse and disinfect, then we lubricate it with pine resin and fill it with small stones (pebbles with sand, crushed stone) and put a “seal” made of cement. When the cement dries well, you need to apply paint with drying oil to seal the structure. Gardeners recommend creating a kind of canopy made of metal sheet or wood over the hollow in order to exclude excessive ingress of moisture.

It is extremely dangerous to leave any wound open for the winter, wounds must be covered with garden varnish, and treatment should be postponed until May, June. Over time, you will have your own tricks and treating wounds in fruit trees will not seem like the most difficult task on the site.