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Hello and thank you in advance
I have a fruit Cherry tree which has provided us with some wonderful large sized Cherries (that's if we get to them before the birds) The tree is approx 4ft high and purchased 3 years ago. Last year I noticed the bark is splitting and oozing a golden sap, It's worse this year could you tell me what could be causing this to happen?
I have a fruit Cherry tree which has provided us with some wonderful large sized Cherries (that's if we get to them before the birds) The tree is approx 4ft high and purchased 3 years ago. Last year I noticed the bark is splitting and oozing a golden sap, It's worse this year could you tell me what could be causing this to happen?
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I have a small orchard with Victoria plum trees, and any I replace seem to be getting canker quickly. Isn't there anything I can do to reverse the problem? Are there any plum varieties which are resistant to canker?
All were planted over 30 years ago. Am I just lucky?
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Hi this is a bacterial disease and is spread buy birds but mostly by pruning tools if you do cut this tree with any thing sterlise it with surgical spirit or it can spread
Trees dont get better they are not like us they dont replace cells they wall them off
If it is only on one branch you can try to cut it out you will know if you get it all as there will be on stain in the freshly cut end
It is good practice to strelise all tools between plants
hi kaycurtis depending on what the sick tree has got would depend if the disease is in soil or in the plant. some soil diseases can live in the soil for 5 years and will infect new plants that are susceptible some are in the plant make shore the old plant is dead and remove as much as possible, ammonium sulphamate will kill the whole root and becomes plant food in the soil drill a hole fill it up and cover. Try and work out what it died from