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is this crown gall on my new young lycidas?

KnoxRose -7a
9 years ago

Hello all, I just purchased this Young Lycidas from my local garden center yesterday, they had a few roses left from spring and they were on sale so I picked this YL out of the 3 they had & had planned on putting it in a big pot for now with possible future plans of planting it in the ground. I was watering today I noticed a break in the bark on the graft, and an ugly textured area in the center of the break, of course I ran immediately to the internet and googled "crown gall" & all the photos I see have big protruding tumors. This suspicious area is not bulging out, it is flat to the cane, but could it just be the beginning symptom? Please someone tell me, is this the dreaded crown gall???

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I call your attention to the oval shaped part in the middle of the graft.
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& from the side:
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I have read several posts in the last few minutes on gall & some people say they just live with it, but I am too afraid of infecting any of my other plants to even grow this in a pot nearby, my garden space is too small and too precious to risk it.


thanks for any help!

Jessica

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