Never seen this before

[JesusFreak]

Not exactly sure what it is. I guess I could cut all of it off and then seal it. Hopefully it wouldn’t take too long to heal being that it’s about a year old. Any know what this is?

 

[Eckhoffw]

Are we talking about the bulge?

 

[BobbyLane]

Are we talking about the bulge?

or the sticks, sorry couldnt resist

 

[HorseloverFat]

Weird....

I wonder what kind of cells are building up there?

If you cut into it, is the "bulge" green, like within the cambium, or whiter, like heart cells... Or other?

 

[jandslegate]

Did they have anything on them? Like wrapped around, vining weed, wire etc?

 

[Dav4]

It’s a gall… don’t know what caused it, though. Everything from physical trauma to infection to insect activity can be a possibility

 

[JesusFreak]

interesting. Have never been wrapped with anything. Was gonna use these to make a forest planting. The one with the gall is the strongest of all the seedlings. I check them everyday. It’s continued to get bigger

 

[August44]

Whack! Just start cutting a section off at a time. Pretty soon it will all be gone and healed up. Been there , done that. It will look way better than what you have

 

[It's Kev]

I came because of the clickbait title, expected a picture of the purple people eater

 

[BobbyLane]

interesting. Have never been wrapped with anything. Was gonna use these to make a forest planting. The one with the gall is the strongest of all the seedlings. I check them everyday. It’s continued to get bigger

In my maple material thread, I had some around this size and bigger in forest plantings. the other option is planting them tightly together to make a tree or clump, as recently did with my hornbeam sticks.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Whack! Just start cutting a section off at a time. Pretty soon it will all be gone and healed up. Been there , done that. It will look way better than what you have

This is what I would do, if not fusing.

 

[leatherback]

Whack! Just start cutting a section off at a time. Pretty soon it will all be gone and healed up. Been there , done that. It will look way better than what you have

I am not convinced there is a node below the gall. It looks like these seedings were grown in dark conditions originally with a very long hypocotyl . Cutting below the gal might result in complete die-off.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

It doesn't have to a gall, though.
If it snapped at one point, we get this kind of damage when tissue heals.

I used the squeeze-n-bend technique for soft tissues a couple years ago, like one would bend cannabis in the supercropping practice, or however that's called nowadays.. And the healed tissue looks exactly like that bulge.

 

[bonsaichile]

Whack! Just start cutting a section off at a time. Pretty soon it will all be gone and healed up. Been there , done that. It will look way better than what you have

If it is a bacterial gall, the tree will eventually die. If you cut it, it will come back. Sorry, but in that case, the only way to proceed is to throw the tree away, along with the soil and pot. Clean and disinfect your tools.

 

[0soyoung]

Now THAT (^^) is galling!

 

[Pixar]

Put it in a seperate pot and isolate ( see what happens )

 

[JesusFreak]

Gonna repot in the spring. Will take off half of the bulge soon, seal it and do the other half later. Should I wait until after spring and everything is growing to take the other half of it?

 

[jandslegate]

Gonna repot in the spring. Will take off half of the bulge soon, seal it and do the other half later. Should I wait until after spring and everything is growing to take the other half of it?

In the spring bleeding would be more of an issue. I think it would depend on how dire the situation with the gall is at that point.

 

[BobbyLane]

 

[August44]

I like the video, but would be nice to have had some chatter along the way