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Old December 30, 2017   #9
Worth1
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Well I'm not a master but know how trees grow.
All that wood inside the bark where the horrible multi split is has been compromised.
It wont grow back together and it wont heal only the outer bark might, then continue on to grow outwards.
The tree can be saved if the bad place, tree and all connected to it is cut off and allowed to grow a new tree from a new sucker.
This will happen fast due to the huge root system it already has.
Something like this happened to one of my loquat trees and I did the same thing after fooling with it for awhile.
Now it is a nice straight tree again.

From what I can tell from the pictuer is the tree was growing off to an angle and the wind started it to oscillate back and forth twisting the trunk till it couldn't take it anymore and fractured.
I can almost see it in my mind now.

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