Can someone explain what happened here? (redbud tree)
davidfromdetroit
4 years ago
I have had a redbud growing for 3 years in our yard, doing very well. By all signs, a vibrant healthy tree. Young, but healthy.
This spring, I noticed toward the base of the trunk, the trunk was split open. And.... the tree is dead. It was healthy through the fall. But during the winter or spring, it dies and the trunk is split. It appears as if it froze from the inside and it popped open, but a winter-hardy tree like this should have no trouble where we live - red bud trees are everywhere in our neighborhood and city.
Attaching a pic for reference. Can someone explain or propose a hypothesis why this tree should have up and died, and what would cause a trunk to crack open like that?
(attaching pic from both sides of tree. Split seems to go right through the trunk.
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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Comments (28)We have a couple of dwarf redbuds. only been in the ground a couple years, so hard to give a full response. Of interest, locally, redbuds are nearly non existent in the area. Old timers refer to them as dead-buds, so there's something in this region, be it altitude, spring weather, winter wind, summer humidity...whatever. The spring of 2016 locally was brutal. Early warm weather followed by long lingering cool, damp, seasonally cold weather. local orchards were hard hit, certain crops locally were wiped put entirely (cherries, apricots, peaches, plums. only pears and apples had any harvest and they were down signigicantly). We have 5 redbud trres. Two recently planted dwarves, still under 3' tall, and two with trunks close to 6", ten to 12' overall size, and one weeping at about 5' tall. the larger trees and the weeper had very few flowers and took forever to leaf out...if you were impatient, you may well have yanked them. ultimately, they leafed out fine, so we'll see this coming spring. The smaller two looked happy as clams. they bloomed fully, leafed out as though there wasn't a single problem. Was this a size and protection thing? time may tell....See Moredavidfromdetroit
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