I also have what I call "log features" in the yard, and many rotting snags and stumps in various stages of decay. As I mentioned above, I leave old dead trees standing in the back yard (not the front because it's not visually appealing to most people) and they eventually fall over and become "log features". I am using some of them to edge a wild garden, or just leave them where they fall, because this is what occurs in a natural woodland. This dead wood, including dead branches on a tree, all provide habitat for insects, birds, and other critters! I have also watched the Pileated woodpeckers working away on a stump or log to get their insects. And yes, termites do inhabit some of this dead wood. Am not sure whether it's better to try to discourage them altogether, or give them some wood out there in the back yard to eat, instead of my house?? However, a log that is 5 x 12 feet is so massive, that I would proabably give it away on Craigslist to somebody with a huge chainsaw. :)

remove the wrap .. done!!! properly trim the wound.. walk away for a few weeks.. and let it dry out... brush it off in a few days.. and see what going on ... your term SCRAPING.. is making me afraid .. lol ... with no where to hide.. no bugs are going to hang out there ... and with winter coming.. bug chems would be useless ... as to a fungicide.. i would not bother.. but some peeps might recommend such ... in my world.. trees heal themselves... once you quit loving them to death.. [like with the wrapping] .... so leave it be.. quit worrying about it .. and odds are .. it will be just fine ... [except for the fireblight and suckers.. lol] ... and a good pic would confirm my suggestions.. or blow them out of the water.. so i await ... ken

beany.. i have read this 5 times.. i have no clue what you are getting at ... you start by air layering the trunk ??? .. and then immediately call it a branch ... whats that all about ... if you cut off the trunk.. the single trunk.. on most trees ... it will regrow two or three new sprouts.. and you have to reduce to one trunk.. if thats the form you want .. i have no clue why you would air layer such ... i have never heard nor thought about air layering.. in this situation.. maybe you need to tell us.. more specifically ... about what you are thinking about doing ... beside butchering your young tree .... this better not be another pear post.. lol ... [which is usually how you do it.. when you dont want the screeds ... lol] bottom line.. maybe you ought to give this plant a few years.. to actually branch.. before you dream about propagating it .... ken

I don't have pictures of all the trunks, per se, but I took a video of my container garden for my nephews, yesterday. The latest additions are the 2 Bonanza dwarf peach trees. I need to repot both of my lemon trees. The previously light and airy 511 is packed solid in their containers, right now. It's been a couple years, so they're overdue. I need to buy some bark. . Have a great 4th of July, everyone. God Bless America. . Atheen