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The tree’s natural nemesis is the wind storm. In either hurricane or tornado, some of your trees will suffer damage. To what degree they will be salvageable relies on the strong constitution of the tree and the amount of damage done. Some tree damage is minor and the tree will bounce back straight away. Some is major, and may turn out to be tree damage that leads to certain tree death. Here are ways to be able to tell what you are dealing with in ascertaining the damage:
Minor Tree Damage – And Definitely Recoverable
If the damaged tree merely loses one or two minor branches, then all will be well. You might need to wash up the break points if there are torn limbs, but otherwise the tree will recover given a short period of time. Even a developed shade tree can withstand the loss of a major limb. Prune the broken limb back to the trunk. Monitor for decay at the cut, but otherwise time will most likely heal the wound of this damaged tree. Saplings can withstand a large amount of damage and bounce right back. They could need to be staked if the wind storm loosened their root ball, but that should be all you need to worry about with saplings.
Major Tree Damage – Usually Recoverable
Major tree damage that can cause a hard chance for recovery would be if the tree is now at tilting at an angle because the wind storm literally blew the tree to an angle. The roots may end up recovering, but the roots may also have sustained damage. Wait four seasons to see…
If the tree damage is multiple major limb breakage, the best you can do is cut back the broken branches and get rid of the damaged limbs. Again, give the damaged tree a full cycle of seasons to ascertain how it recovers. By this time next year the outcome will be apparent whether the tree survived the tree damage, or if it failed. Remove tree at that point, if it has not succeeded to recover.
Dead Tree Standing – Remove Tree
If the hurricane or tornado has ripped off 50% or more of the crown of the tree, or if the tree is split down the trunk, then you have an unrecoverable situation in nearly all circumstances. “Repair tree” options are out of the window here – these are “remove tree” eventualities. Go ahead and remove a tree suffering these types of damage as quickly as you can, and realise that there was nothing else you might have done.
Katherine Parker provides educational articles for Southeast Texas Trees LLC. This article overviews windstorm-related tree damage, when a tree will usually recover, and when it is safe to remove tree with confidence of knowing that it can not survive the damage.
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