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Here is a problem that can occur on trees of all sizes: The trunk splits apart below two stems of roughly equal size. In arborist lingo it is “failure of the attachment of codominant stems.” I have ...

The big snow split our old weeping Japanese maple (3-feet by 4-feet wide). The trunk cracked apart vertically about 2 inches wide and way down the middle. Should we tie it loosely around the stem so ...