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Whats wrong with my Cherry Tree?

connie77connie77 Posts: 151
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Hi All, hope your ok? Just got a question about my two year old Cherry Tree, it is covered in buds this year but I noticed a nasty gash on it yesterday, should I be worried? I have had my grease band round it so I don’t think it is Moth damage? 
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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @connie77, hello  I'm not quite sure what is wrong with your cherry tree. Could be something nasty like a canker
     Is the lesion on the main trunk and was it where the grease band was tied? I don't think that will recover so you may have to prune the affected part off.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • connie77connie77 Posts: 151
    Hi Lizzie, thanks for your reply, the lesion is on the main trunk near the middle of the Tree, as for pruning it out? I have it tied in to wires as i am training it for espalier , 
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    I agree prune it to well below the damaged part but best to wait until spring growth starts.
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • connie77connie77 Posts: 151
    Redwing it is covered in buds even near the lesion?  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    Just to clarify ... cherries  aren’t suitable for being grown as espaliers. 
    Cherries and other stone fruits are best fan-trained. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • connie77connie77 Posts: 151
    edited March 2021
    Dovefromabove, I am new to tree & fruit growing, I have it on wires at the back of my Arbour & it has been well fed & happy , just this lesion on this trunk? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    Hi 😊 
    it looks to me as it the tree has been badly damaged at that point and the growth above it may not be viable. 

     However all may not be lost. 😊

     If we could see a photo of the whole tree we could see your options... it may well be possible to cut the lead stem back and train future side shoots as a fan as shown here 
    https://www.kenmuir.co.uk/image/data/pdf/Growing%20Guides/Fan%20Trained%20Plums%20Final%20Reduced.pdf
    😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • connie77connie77 Posts: 151
    Hi , only pic i have is this one at moment ( excuse the rubbish bags)  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Looks like you have a busy productive plot there 😊 

    I can’t see properly, but I would go for it as shown on the Ken Muir link ... I would start as shown at Fig. 33

    but I wonder what @Mr. Vine Eye thinks ... he’s done more fruit training than I have. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • connie77connie77 Posts: 151
    Thanks Dove, I will have a look at the link this evening as off to put doors on my polytunnel now, yes sorry about pic only one i had at moment 
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