My son peeled this patch of bark off a sour cherry tree in Poland. My sister and BIL are really upset and I feel awful. It was planted by his grandad and they get the fruit off it every year.
Is there anything I can do to help? BIL has said it will probably die now and I know how much they mean to him and his family.
Watered by the rain and gets sunlight throughout spring summer but has a little shade from surrounding trees.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
by jengaduk
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Yeah you can probably tell them to stop being little bitches. Tree will be fine, they go through worse in the wild
What your son did was essentially girdling. This destroys the Cambium layer and could potentially kill the tree. I’ve seen plants bounce back from this- however if it does not, you should replace this tree.
r/arborists would be a better place to ask. If what we see where the bark was removed is the cambium layer, the tree may live but it may also dry up and kill the tree. But I’m not an arborist nor am I that familiar with cherry trees. Real arborists may have solutions if the tree is in danger.
They may speak with an arborist to see if they could graft part of it to another, healthy tree. Then if it doesn’t live, a clone/several clones of it will continue on.
If this goes all the way around the tree, it is ringed and will die.