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kevinecwi

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This tree was in a four foot snow drift this winter and the mice ate off the bark. Anything I can do to save it?
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My dad had an apple tree a little bigger than that that had the same happen to. He was big into grafting different varieties on to the same tree so he made some grafts and put them around the base. All but one took and the tree was as healthy as any of the others he kept.
 
I'd wait and see if it leafs out. It may be that enough of the cambium has survived to allow some growth. You don't have anything to loose. Had some saplings that looked like that and some survived. They were silver maples that I didn't want anyway.
 
I've had some that were similar and survived, but you have to remember that if it does sprout out, it will take years to get to the same height as to what the tree was last fall. You might be money ahead to buy a new tree and replant it.
 
It looks to me like they went to deep into the cambrian layer. If it were only part of the trunk it would probably be ok, but since it"s all the way around I highly doubt it will live. I landscaped for many years and every summer I was replacing trees that didnt make it for the same reason because of rabbits in this neck of the woods.
 
Looks like a goner. I'd get a replacement this spring (before the nurseries run out of the good varieties) and replace it as soon "ice-out" occurs.
 
(quoted from post at 14:59:39 04/18/13) My dad had an apple tree a little bigger than that that had the same happen to. He was big into grafting different varieties on to the same tree so he made some grafts and put them around the base. All but one took and the tree was as healthy as any of the others he kept.
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I agree with MSD,graft it if it is fruit,nut or desirable type wood. Otherwise,remove it or plan to alow "all" resprots to grow this year then prune back to a single trunk in the future.
 
I lost a pear tree the same ways some years ago. When it's girdled all the way around, there's nothing you can do. Just plant another and put some tin around it higher than the snow will get intil it gets big enough so the rabbits won't mess with it.
 
As said by others it is done. The mice have eaten off the sap wood that cares the nutrients to the rest of tree. You can kill large trees by doing the same thing.
 
Is there any bark above the ground yet? If so, google bridge grafting. I've got a maple that the rabbits got this winter, clear to the ground and all the way around. Pretty sure it's a goner. Can't cut it down yet because I gotta fix the chainsaw first.

Donovan from Wisconsin
 
It's done, they ate threw the vascular Cambrium. What you do with a tree trunck that small Is take a piece of 4 inch black corragatted pipe, about 3 feet long or so and cut it lengthwise, one slice, slip it over the trunk, and put a little duck tape around it, to keep it closed, this will help keep animals from getting to the bark.
 
I would cut it off at ground level and see if it will sprout out a new limb. I think it may. You'll have what they call a one year tree with an older root.

The tree itself is done above the damaged area.

You have nothing to loose by cutting it off at ground level since you have nothing now.
 
My family has a big history of nursery business and orchard business. Your root is very much alive yet so just cut the tree off at the ground level and I'll bet money it will grow again.
 
I skined the bark off of a peach tree one time with a weedeater in a smaller place than that. I molded the bark back on it and taped it but in spring it didn't come out so I cut it down and it never came back.
 
I did the bridge grafting thing once, just to see if it would work. It actually did work (but my damage was higher up).

As others have said, if you just cut it off the root will probably come back BUT if it's already root grafted (like a fruit tree from a nursery) you might get the root (not the fruit) part growing. I have some cherry trees that I think this happened to -- they grew back, but no cherries. I'm not explaining this very well, maybe somebody else can tell you what I'm trying to say.
 
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