Rye if the cambium was destroyed, the only solution is Inarching of bridge grafting. You can plant an apple rootstock(s) next to the damaged tree and graft them in (Inarch), or if there is good root bark visible you can bridge graft between the root and scion. If they are very young trees probably better to start over. I worked with a grower may years ago who saved whole mature apple orchard that had bark damage from voles ( he didn't do his mouse and vole control) in Morris County, NJ. These were large standard apple trees, we inarched with apple rootstocks and saved the trees. They lived and thrived another 15 years until he retired.
The best publication is an old out of date one: Title-Bridge grafting and inarching damaged fruit trees. Issue 508 of Leaflet (United States. Dept. of Agriculture). It is out of publication, 1962- but can be found on Amazon http://books.google.com/books/about/Bridge_grafting_and_inarching_damaged_fr.html?id=8I30TFuY5kYC or there is a scan of it at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7607870/Bridge-Grafting-and-Inarching-Damaged-Fruit-Trees Win Cowgill Apple Crop co-founder Editor Horticultural News Professor and Area Fruit Agent New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Hunterdon County PO Box 2900 Flemington, NJ 08822-2900 Email: [email protected] http://www.virtualorchard.net/win/ http://snyderfarm.rutgers.edu/investigators/cowgill.html http://www.horticulturalnews.org/ www.appletesters.net On Jan 19, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Rye wrote > A gopher ate every last finger of root. All that's left is wood below the > graft union. Any chance to get roots to regenerate? It was recent and the > tree wood is still wet inside. I planted the bareroot last spring, headed it > to 18" and it grew to 6ft. Shame to loose all that growth. > > Thanks, > Rye Hefley > Future Farmers Marketter > So. Cal. > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected] > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
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