How can I save my baby tree
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Topic: How can I save my baby tree
Posted By: john(MI)
Subject: How can I save my baby tree
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 12:47am
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We have two linden trees about 6' tall. A deer scratched his antlers on one last year and took a large section of bark off. The tree died. Well this year he is scratching on the other one. What can I bandage this tree with to try to keep it living? Any ideas out there guys? My plan for today is put in some posts and wrap it in fence. I should sit out there in my truck and shoot the damn thing! I blew up a muscrat yesterday. I didn't have my 22 handy and all I had was slugs for the 12 ga. So that is what he got. It was like a gernade went off!!! Well, thanks in advance for any help you can provide. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 2:19am
| may hafta wrap sum hog wire around the tree about a foot outside it all the way around. prolly 2 high. |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 5:12am
A deer hide, wrapped around the tree, with duct tape...
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Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 6:47am
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Spray it with blood meal. At work we use a product called Plantskydd on our new seedlings. Actually witnessed it work. Deer came up to row of trees, sniffed the air, then turned tale and ran. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 7:31am
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Here is a thought. A person, I forget what her degree was in was doing a survey at my place. She said that a preventative for buck rubs was. I use concrete reinforcing wore. cut it so you have a spine and the wires sticking out on both sides of the vertical wire. zip tie that to the tree. Bucks will not rub something/a tree that has obstructions on it like the wires sticking out. That has saved my tulip poplar and it looks like a full recovery is in order. BTW, I have a linden that is about 8 inches in diameter at the trunk. That thing is one of the favorite foods for the Japanese beetle.
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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 9:09am
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I bought some small ditch corrugated pipe at Lowe's for just this problem. https://www.lowes.com/pd/FLEX-Drain-8-ft-70-PSI-Expandable-Corrugated-Solid-Pipe/4067930" rel="nofollow - https://www.lowes.com/pd/FLEX-Drain-8-ft-70-PSI-Expandable-Corrugated-Solid-Pipe/4067930 ------------- "Allis-Express" 19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17 |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 11:52am
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Thanks for the suggestions, but what can I put on the tree on the exposed area. I see people put something black on where cut off branches were. Is black paint all I need? ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Orange Glow
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 12:17pm
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The best way I’ve found to make a tree stay alive is to spray it with 2,4D and mow it down.... They always come back when I do that, especially the maple and mulberry ones on CRP ground!! We’ve never had any problems with deer, since we have two German Shepherds. I have seen people put corn tunnels around them, but that wouldn’t help the upper side. |
Posted By: mdm1
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 12:55pm
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There is a type of sealer designed for that purpose. Make sure to trim any loose bark back to where it solid against the layer under the bark. Then seal it up. ------------- Everything is impossible until someone does it! WD45-trip loader 1947 c w/woods belly mower, 1939 B, #3 sickle mower 1944 B, 2 1948 G's. Misc other equipment that my wife calls JUNK! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 1:47pm
| Lowe's did carry a sealer for when you was trimming to put on where the limbs were cut off and I put steel post and snow fence around my tree to keep the deer away |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 1:54pm
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Most all the walnut orchards here are 15 trees to the acre so they protected individual trees rather than fencing the whole acreage like vineyards. Two or 3 stacks and any manor of mesh wire about 5 feet up. A lot of times not even close to the ground. There is a tar like stuff sold for grafting trees that would work for this. But if a day has past since the damage probably will not do any good
 . The old saying a oz of protection is worth a pound of cure.  |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 4:05pm
I had a similar problem with a local dog that was pi$$ing on one of the young Arborvitae trees around the pavilion that I'd built at my parents place. Daily this same dog would be trotting down the street and then take a beeline for this one tree. Seeing that the tree was withering, I placed 4 fiberglass posts for temporary fencing around it, then around those I attached some chicken wire. Then I hooked up an electric fencer to the chicken wire. Only once more did the dog ever cock his leg to pi$$ on that tree.  from then on he never even left the street. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 4:55pm
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don't paint open wounds with an oil base paint........ use latex outside house paint. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 5:24pm
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How about placing 3 or 4 skids around the tree ? Kind of a 'wall'. ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:18pm
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Just leave it , all them special paints and sealers will retard the healing rather than help . Nature will do the job Protecting from further damage - is the next step ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |