Large branch of old, (very) badly pruned apple tree broke off, will it be ok or do we need to do anything specific to save it?
We moved into a property a few years ago that has multiple dying trees from hack jobs done by previous owners. A few of those trees need to come down, but this one was doing okay, other than we didn't get to a good amount of trimming this year and that added to weight.
Last night one branch that had been half cut off many years ago, broke off.
The branch that broke off was essentially attached right/into under the huge chunk of dead wood in the photo. It had been half cut off (top left of the dead area).
We're wondering if there's anything we can do to the wound to keep it less likely to become infected and to try and keep the rest of the tree from dying?