A huge limb fell over the fence and into the pasture last week. It’s mostly chopped up now. Maria and Mike Conklin noticed a very small limb protruding from the spot where the limb cracked and fell off.
He and Maria decided to save it, it wanted to live, they said. So it was saved and sits proudly over the spot where the limb left the tree.
So many limbs perished in the limb fall, this one nearly was clipped by a big saw. He was saved by inches.
Perhaps it will be a big limb one day, longer I am gone. If I gauged it correctly, the limb has already grown four or five inches. It seems the big limb falling has been good for him.
Don’t you just love nature!
Nature perseveres…
Thank goodness!
That is what is known as a water sprout; they are not strong limbs and tend to break in storms. The tree may throw more of these with the death/removal of the larger limb. It is always recommended to remove them as they really don’t do the tree any good. Trees tend to develop them after pruning. or other damage.