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Saving Redbuds with Dead Top Growth: Train a New Leader

Scrape bark on the dead upper trunk—if brown underneath, it's dead. Don't remove it yet. Select a vigorous lower limb, splint it vertically to the dead central trunk with cloth strips, and remove dead twigs. In two years, the new leader will establish; then remove the splint and dead trunk.

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