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Well I guess I would say that to me 4 years is a long time. No disrespect to you but I can't think of anything that I have cut back 4 years ago that hasn't healed by now. I think it's because of the way I manage my material. Here are three pictues of a trident that I dug in 1/05 and worked on 2/28/05. First picture is what it looked like before I started cutting, second after cutting off branches and the third taken this last week 1/06. All this work done on a tree that had been in the ground 15 years, dug up, completely bare rooted, shoved in a trailer and hauled a 1,000 miles, root pruned and potted in a plastic container. I was advised against working on it so soon but had convidence it would be ok. This will finish healing this year. I would have to add that the water elms that I collected are very slow and show very little healing and most likely will take more than 4 years to heal.
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