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Tree is dead on top, live on bottom--cut?

chewbroccoli
9 years ago

My girlfriend and I planted a WhiteGold cherry tree in the autumn of 2012. The cicadas were all over it in the summer of 2013. We covered it at some point, but it was too late. I pruned of the branches that had dead leaves. There was an abscess on the lower part of the trunk. Now itt looks like the whole top of the tree is dead, but there is growth on the bottom. It looks to me like the growth may be above the graft. I was wondering if anyone can verify that from the pictures I will post. Underneath the new branches, visible is the end of something embedded in the tree, which I thought was the rootstock. Is this just wishful thinking? Is it alive down there only because the scion is dead and the rootstock is still kicking? If the scion is still alive should I cut the trunk right above where the new growth is?

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