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Underwor · 11th February 2008, 07:51 AM

You are right in that no Wall 4 forms at the time of wounding. The tree is not too worried about the rot in the wounded wood growing out into the air surrounding it. It is only worried about it growing into the new wood laid down afterwards. If wound closure is fairly rapid, then this new wood, besides having no living link to the wounded wood, is growing over wood which is by now dead and relatively dry and therefore does not have a whole lot of invasive ability. This may differ in the case of a rams horn growing into the dark cool damp core of a hollow tree, but that is a different scenario altogether.

11th February 2008, 07:51 AM	#59 (permalink)
Underwor Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: North Dakota Posts: 50	Re: longer cuts on poor compartmentalizers\| CODIT WALL4 You are right in that no Wall 4 forms at the time of wounding. The tree is not too worried about the rot in the wounded wood growing out into the air surrounding it. It is only worried about it growing into the new wood laid down afterwards. If wound closure is fairly rapid, then this new wood, besides having no living link to the wounded wood, is growing over wood which is by now dead and relatively dry and therefore does not have a whole lot of invasive ability. This may differ in the case of a rams horn growing into the dark cool damp core of a hollow tree, but that is a different scenario altogether. __________________ Bob Underwood, Associate Professor of Forestry ND School of Forestry Minot State University - Bottineau Campus Bottineau, North Dakota