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Cherry tree rotting underneath bark

ltilton
9 years ago

This seems weird to me.

It's been raining a whole lot here, and I saw new gummosis on the trunk of my Stella tree, so I investigated, found borer holes [ugly buggers], dug some out.

But in the process, I also noticed that part of the trunk felt soft and squishy. I pressed the bark, and water oozed out of a slit. So I made a vertical cut in the bark, and there was a large, vertical rotted area, a couple of inches wide, hiding under the perfectly sound-looking bark. No sign of anything that could have caused this, except that the area was very wet, watery.

Could it just be rot from wet roots? [It's been a whole lot soggier than this in past years]. It wasn't the borers - the area was looking like it had been healing on the edges of the wound.

I want to cut the tree down, as it's been nothing but trouble and never produces, except that it pollinates my White Gold tree [that I don't want to get borers].

Think I'll see if I can bud some from the Stella for this purpose.

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