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| The poultry netting (aka, chicken wire) was pulled away from the trunk. Rabbits found it. |
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| Multiple layers of newspaper. If the exposed cambium does not dry out, it can heal. |
Interesting summary on pain and physical activity HERE
Like the Drill Instructor said, "More sweat now means less of your blood later". Higher levels of physical activity correlated to higher-to-much-higher levels of pain tolerance.
Today was a lifting AND running day. I ran first and then did minimum lifting for maintenance.
The running went very well. I had very little in my gut and I believe that my volume-of-air per breath was higher than the last run. My bpm plateaued at 143 bpm.
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| Twenty cycles of this equals one hour and four miles |
I am NOT recommending that anybody else do it this way. Everybody is unique.
If all goes well, the sixty-seconds at 6.0 mph will be bumped up to sixty-six seconds after another week of "foundational" conditioning.
A rule-of-thumb for younger runners is "growing" mileage 10% a week which equates to a doubling of mileage every seven weeks.
Maybe you should wrap that rabbit's skin around the newspaper to give it some insulation. ---ken
ReplyDeleteWill be interested to hear of that tree makes it. How are you planning on keeping that newspaper moist? Saran Wrap maybe?
ReplyDeleteHave you ever cut some grafts strips from above the rabbit girdling and applied them green to green? Same sort of thing as your grafting scions to root stock.
I have and still have a nice apple tree for the effort.
I thought if a tree's bark was 'girdled' then it was a goner for sure. Not so? I've see trees rubbed severely by bucks in rut, but not all the way 'round the circumference, and they've recovered and healed over - but never once girdled.
ReplyDeleteThe only part of a tree's trunk that is growing is the cambium layer. That is a tissue-thin layer between the corky outer-bark and the wood. When the cambium is growing rapidly, its cells are juicy and the cell walls are thin and the bark can be "slipped off" the wood.
DeleteRabbits don't always scrape off every last bit of the cambium but leave a "network" of living cambium with "divots" cut through it. If you can wrap the damaged areas with something like newspaper, something that reduced the drying effects of exposure (a substitute for the bark), many times the cambium will live and the tree will recover.
The cambium wants to live. The tree wants to live.
You could try bridge grafting.
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