My son opened my pet goat's pen, and he got out and scratched his horns on my small grapefruit tree. His horns grated the bark right off so that the soft, white inside stuff is showing. Is there something that I can do to limit the harm that this has done?
What should I do about damanged bark on a grapefruit tree?
As 'peckr-' stated you can use products for grafting like Para-film or grafting wax to temporarily prevent drying, DO NOT use tree sealants of any kind !! These products slow healing and can trap harmful pathogens. If the tree is valuable you can have it "bridge grafted". If not just cut any frayed bark with a sharp knife to make gentle contours to the wound. RScott
Reply:As stated if the damage is all the way around the stems with no bark left running from top to bottom, then the tree has been effectively 'ring barked', and the tree will die.
Most likely the bark has been damaged in places. If this is the case no need to do anything, trees are very resilient and the bark will eventually heal over and be replaced.
Reply:punish the goat to teach it a lesson
Reply:If the outside bark has been removed all the way around,there is a good chance it damaged it beyond help. However,if the cambium layer is all ther,get it cover quickly with wet towels to keep it from drying out.then go to a nursery and get some grafting dope and paint it all round. The nursery can probably give you better instruction. Hope this helps.
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