Any Tips on getting a Burl to Grow Bigger?

[LeftyTom]

While walking our dog over the weekend, LOML & I came across a burl growing on one of our maple trees. It is about 5' up from the ground, and currently about 4"x4".

Anything I can do to encourage its growth?

 

[DaveO]

Anything I can do to encourage its growth?

Well if you talk to it really nice and sweet the CO2 from your breath will enhance it's growth...but you got to breathe really hard, and talk really sweet. Fertilizer might help also to stimulate the overall growth of the tree :dontknow::dontknow::dontknow:


Dave

 

[WoodWrangler]

Rub it gently and whisper sweet nothings in its ear.

 

[TracyP]

Or maybe a job for Yoda:dontknow:

 

[DaveO]

Rub it gently and whisper sweet nothings in its ear.

We are talking about Burl here...


Dave

 

[jerrye]

We are talking about Burl here...


Dave

Ives?!?!?

 

[WoodWrangler]

We are talking about Burl here...


Dave

Yeah, I know. Isn't that what you do with Miss Burl stops by?:rotflm:

 

[nelsone]

You guys need to quit doing that with Burl! We'll begin to wonder about you!!!:rolf:

 

[Kdub]

if you watered and fertilized it regularly it may be large enough to do something within 30 years, where as if you did nothing it may be useable in 50 years. maybe? i've seen the growth rings of a pine that was planted at the end of a drain field that was 20 years old but was the diameter of a 40 yr old tree. so there maybe something to babying a tree but you're still talking about years and years. hows your patience? good luck though.