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Originally Posted by abebob
Do you have any pics that show the wound a little better? How long did you wait to carve it into more of a slant?
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I used wound sealant, which means that I was able to make the original trunk chop at the angle that I wanted, and after only one year the callous has almost completely covered the wound. Its only when you do not use wound sealant that you have to worry about leaving stubs and carving them out later. By late spring the callous should be completely together, and in 5 years should almost be naturalized into the trunk.
I make this point since I do know folks who are totally against the use of wound sealant, which baffles me. To each his own, and I don't try to convert them over to my view, but I wouldn't dare do the kind of cut I did here if I wasn't going to seal it off, and it would not have been as healed as it is now.
I've circled the main trunk cut in the apex shot, I don't have any other shot that shows the chop. From the top it looks completely sealed together, which its not yet - the little branch hides the gap that's there.
-Centaura