Hi, Greg —
I’m really curious to hear what others suggest. Old-timers in northern NY
would sometimes use shingle nails to nail the loose bark back to the trunks of
big old winter-injured trees when the bark split away from the trunks due to
cold injury during winter. I’m not certain if it did
Greg, My "gut" tells me grafting tape will not help. I think an open wound
will heal better. I suppose the SW side thawed and quickly refroze.
Somewhere I have seen adhesive backed insulation that has a peel-off
coating. If this were white and had UV protection, strips a few inches wide
and a foot
Greg;
We get the same damage here in Southern California, but from sunburn, not
Southwest Injury. But the damage is the same, dead cambium layer and
sunken bark. Besides robbing vigor from the tree, here it also attracts
borers who take advantage of the tree's inability to sap out the maggot,
an
