Nick on olive tree trunk

[princeperch]

Hullo

I have purchased an olive tree and it was correctly described as being a graded item so this isn't a surprise. It was cheap enough to take a punt on.

It has a small nick at the lower part of the trunk. My question is would you leave this and it'll be perfectly fine as it is or would you dress it with a tree wound dressing? The dressing is only a fiver but I assume it's a putty which would stick out like a pikestaff when applied to the tree.


Any thoughts appreciated. It's otherwise a thick healthy tree with a 45cm girth for it's trunk with labels and plant passport attached.

[The Three D Mucketeer]

I'd put some tree grease on the damage to stop any disease entering.

[GSA_fattie]

just leave it, the tree will "deal" with it. Its only a small nick

we do not treat wounds anymore and have not for a very long time, days of painting arbrex type products over wounds has thankfully stopped, you used to get more on yourself than the tree/wound