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Sat, Dec 24, 11 at 13:30
| My tree is is 9 years old. It's growing well and developing a nice crown. This past summer, sometimes in late August, a vicious wind storm hit one afternoon. It caused a lot of damage to trees all over Toronto. To my surprise two branches of my Kentucky Coffee tree had snapped and lot of leaves scattered on the ground. I don't know how to deal with it. The branches snapped and were hanging by the bark. We removed them and left the stumps. Should that be removed? The older trees had no broken branches except for some twigs and leaves. I'm not familiar with Kentucky Coffee trees. It was recommended by an arborist. I like the tree very much. The bark is attractive, so is the foliage. But, I'm curious about the wood, if it's brittle and tree looses branches in wind storms. |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Sat, Dec 24, 11 at 14:19
| Hey Yug. While one should never purposely leave stubs when pruning, in your situation, and given that KCT has few or no twiglets off of branches, I'd say leave the stubs and see what kind of growth flushes out from them next year. The damage is already done, by the wind. May as well just leave it as is and see what happens. +oM |
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| If the tree were mine, I'd make proper pruning cuts (immediately beyond the branch bark ridge / branch collar) and let next years growth start the covering/sealing process. |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Sat, Dec 24, 11 at 20:42
| I might suggest that too if I was looking at a picture. I've already been up in trees some months after severe storm events have torn up their branches, only to find surprisingly robust growth coming from torn, jagged branch stubs that one would never purposely leave. Those are judgement calls and every case is slightly different. +oM |
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| I've had the very same thing happen to several of mine. I've got 4 of them in total. I've never had anything break that was so large it threatened to ruin either the health or appearance of the tree, but it seems to be fairly common to lose small to medium branched during summer storms. |
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