[CANUFNET] Pruning Wound Treatment on Silver Maple

[C. Kavassalis via CANUFNET]

Thank you for your advice. I will pass it along.

Best Regards
Catherine

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:35 AM JPM TREE SERVICE via CANUFNET <
canufnet at list.web.net> wrote:

> That’s a pretty big cut. This species of *Acer*, unlike its
> country-cousin the Sugar Maple (*Acer saccharum*), is not a strong
> compartmentalizer of wounds. Also, heal is a term I once used: to “restore
> near to its original condition.” Seal is a better term that I prefer to
> employ. Semantics are important.
>
> A photo is always helpful, but not available in this case. *Has the cut
> been made correctly in relation to the branch collar, and has that cut been
> made using a thin chainsaw chain that is sharp ?* The thinner chain found
> on say the Stihl MS-150 (TC-E) [who makes up these longwinded tool names
> anyways?] leaves a smoother cut. A cut that is bumpy has more “valleys and
> ridges” for the woundwood to travel across to close the site and form the
> cicatrix. Let’s assume that the bark was not ripped off during the cut.
> That usually doesn’t bode well.
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> I’ve taken two foot diameter cuts before, but they are often on London
> plane (*Platanus x acerifolia*) or Western red cedar (*Thuja plicata*);
> both have faired well. For this Silver Maple, it’ll be and wait and see
> game, as fungi may be the winner.
>
> For wound treatments, the only thing I’ve done is to take a little soil
> from the base of the tree and rub it on larger wounds. One to discolour the
> white wood from the viewer below and two, instinctually I think it might
> help. I have no science on this technique.
> However going to back to trees that have been pruning 10 and 15 years
> eariler, I haven’t seen that it has done any harm.
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