apple tree bark problem

Hi Bigalfie,
String will be too tight as your tree grows. Take it off and put sealglaze tape round the tree. Put the stake back at an angle, 2 feet away from the base on the North side. Use an elasticated tie on the tree.

thanks but where do you get sealglaze from a garden centre this is new to me thanks again

Hope you did not remove the bark from a complete circle round the trunk. If you did you will have killed every thing above the cut.
Better than anything and easily available is Arbex Wound paint. Failing that, melted beeswax from a proper old fashioned beeswax candle!

If you decide you want to get some sealglaze, you can purchase it from garden centres or hardware stores. I have often used it when grafting and for severe wounds in trees. it forms a bandage.

thank you, i might have killed it there is only a small striip of bark left should i cut it there are only a couple of branches left below. there are plenty of buds remaining on branches above. help

Not yet, wait and see. Just get that cut protected, one way or another. If the branches above begin to die then you will have to remove everything above the damage, but until then, adopt a wait and see policy.

many thanks to all of you for your help you have been very helpfull bigalfie oap,