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Tree seems to be bleeding

Hi all, I need help again my Whitebeam seems to be bleeding.  I cleaned it yesterday but agsin today I saw it again and took a photo.  I also noted a perfect hole in the trunk not a big hole but the trunk is not that big .  The whole is some way up the trunk and perfectly cylindrical .

please can anyone help and tell me what to do to save the thee.  It been in the garden 3 years.

thank all you so much.

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  • mushermusher Posts: 389

    Hi Cat,

    It could be a condition called bacterial wet wood. Its a sign that the tree has been injured,  lacking nutrition or both. To avoid bacterial gases building up inside the tree and bad bacterial sap leeching down tbe trunk. Put a drainage system in to the tree.Perhaps inserting a hollow metal tube in that hole in the trunk. So sap drips a way from the tree.Keep the drainage in until it heals.

  • mushermusher Posts: 389

    Another reason why trees bleed. If they haven't enough room to develope. To much competition from other tress and plants bleeding some times occur. or wroung location

  • mushermusher Posts: 389

    just a thought, the round hole. No one been taking pot shots at it with a air rifle

  • Cat 3Cat 3 Posts: 107

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    Musher, there are other trees nearby which were not there last year but there is room.  No there are no shots - would be a fantastic shot!

    I have taken more photos .  I clean the eggy fungus off every day but I am getting a bit weary now.  I have put chicken manure down and sprayed with washing up liquid,  still not sure what the eggy stuff is,image

  • I think you have an insect borer at work there - the stuff on the ground is the frass produced by the large beetle grub inside your tree.  Hopefully it's not this:

    http://www.forestry.gov.uk/newsrele.nsf/WebPRByCountryLang/DBF28E04AB49081280257A3F004C8CD6

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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