{"id":795,"date":"2016-06-28T14:20:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/?p=795"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:20:27","slug":"apple-tree-stems-splitting-on-older-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/apple-tree-stems-splitting-on-older-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Tree Stems Splitting On Older Trees."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring especially if we have a warm spring an apple tree will start to take up through the roots a large amount of water  and in old trees this can cause cracking or splitting of the stems and branches.This is natural and there is not a great deal you can do about it,as the season gets under way the cracks and splits should close up.It used to be recommended that sealing the cracks or splits was a good course of action however these days it is understood that the sealing process can seal in bacteria and fungus spores infection the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spring especially if we have a warm spring an apple tree will start to take up through the roots a large amount of water and in old trees this can cause cracking&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}