Hello all im sooooo upset as my dad has almost destroyed a Plumb tree thats in my back garden. hes half cut the trees trunk and i want to save it please look http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x311/mroil123/IMAGE_040-1.jpg?t=1210686252 http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x311/mroil123/IMAGE_039-1.jpg?t=1210686449 can it be saved ?? and how if i tiewrap the snapped part and then glue it or use some sort of splits will that work how can i save the tree ?? my dads a moron the neighbours are %"^^&"*("( they were not happy with the tree coming in to the garden so my dad being a retarded cave man has cut it down i feel like crying .i love that tree.i grew up eating from it in summer and now it seems my dad has murdered it just to please a couple of losers
To late the damage is done. If you want to save it dig it up and move that is left and see if it will grow as we here in the states know if you plant something on the property line and it hangs over into your neighbor's yard they can cut what hangs over into their yard. Whom planted it on the property line?? If I were you I'd try to get some cuttings of what is down and try to root them? Keep in a cooler spot where you won't forget to water.
the tree was on the boarder line eversince we moved to the house but it was not so much of an issue as the neighbours could have cut it at their side its just my dad being a cave man . please explain how i can use the cuttings and how should i root them im really upset about it it was such a nice tree
It's actually a plum tree. Plumb is a term used to describe something vertical....which your tree is no longer. It will send out a myriad of shoots from the trunk, none of which will be plumb, that will in a couple of years, bear plums. Problem with such shoots is that they are weakly attached to the trunk and will likely break off when the fruit gets heavy. You'd best buy a new (faster to fruit & good varieties) try or grow one from a plum pit (long time to fruit & may be a dud).
plumbtree, sometimes the older generation just reacts and they are not cave folks, he is your Dad. He many not have had an attachment like you had to that tree? We here take hard wood cuttings in the fall and winter months if the soil allows and we just cut and stick back into the ground or pots with dirt. I'll tell you it might be wise to buy as smivies suggested and try to find the variety of the tree you lost or look at what is available now to find a better variety. smivies sometimes it's best to over look how something is spelled as they do have different spellings and meaning across the pond, I think we know what they were talking about. Plums are how we spell it here but over there, well I'm not from there??
Looks like it's a row of orchard plum root suckers. The cut trunk will respond with multiple new, fast-growing tops if left in place. Finish removing the hanging, cut portion and then watch as new tops sprout below the cut and shoot up.
The Queen's English is surprisingly similar to American English....a plumb tree means the same thing on both sides of the pond....a very vertical tree. Literacy levels are a going concern all over the world...best to clear things up now, it will save embarrassment later. 'nuff said :-)
