Mango Tree Bark Came Out

[masterking]

hi everyone, I have a mango tree of 14 years. Before six months, something bite the mango tree or it happened normally. The bark of one side came out. I thought it would heel. But, now it seems the bark area become large.

Also, there is some termites formed around the tree.  I cleaned everything and poured some pesticides and round that with polytape.

Is there any other solution.

[simon_grow]

You can clean up the rough edges some more and if you know how to graft, you can perform a bridge graft.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_f9u0gdxxLM
Simon

[Tropicdude]

looking close at the picture I noticed that there seems to be another layer of bark underneath the top one.  the one below seems to have healed over in the past.  I wonder if this could have been caused by lightning ?   anyway,  bridge graft as Simon mentioned should work.   you might want to see if you can bridge the inner bark.

[masterking]

looking close at the picture I noticed that there seems to be another layer of bark underneath the top one.  the one below seems to have healed over in the past.  I wonder if this could have been caused by lightning ?   anyway,  bridge graft as Simon mentioned should work.   you might want to see if you can bridge the inner bark.

Yes, The inner layer is somewhat good and healed. But, Only problem is the termites spreading all over and the bark again started to lose.

Don't know the cause of it. I was thinking about woodpecker maybe. 

[masterking]

You can clean up the rough edges some more and if you know how to graft, you can perform a bridge graft.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_f9u0gdxxLM
Simon

The tree is big, otherparts are doing ok. As Tropicdude said, inner layer is showing as healed. But, i will try this grafting. Can i take the piece from the top layer of the tree.

[simon_grow]

I haven’t personally tried this myself but from my grafting experience, you should be able to use a watersprout or or another small diameter branch. Depending on how many graft you intend to place, you can put the bridge graft slanted to cover more surface area. There are lots of other repair or bridge graft videos on YouTube.

Simon

[pineislander]

I agree it could well have been a woodpecker searching for insects.
This is related but I recently took this photo of a mango tree healing after severe injury. The tree scraped against the posts while being bent over and whipped around in Hurricane Irma September 2017. The callous has almost closed up the injury and if it continues the tree should be fully recovered in a year or so.

 

[OCchris1]

Looks like severe termite damage to me. Good luck

[OCchris1]

I had similar damage to an African tulip tree (orange color). The tree bounced back in no time. Conversely, I had a Mango tree come down with some "likely fungal/bacterial" infection, I treated it quickly with some Alliette wdg fungicide, and the trees truck base cracked and the tree died a month later. Go figure

[Mango_Seed]

Looks like a tiki carver hit your tree and only finished the mouth. Like a graffiti artist they get spooked easily

[Coach62]

Fipronil is the best chemical for termites, but I wouldn’t use it if there’s fruit on the tree.

[masterking]

Thanks for everyone. After using some fungicide and covered with polytape for a month. Tree somewhat healed and doing good.

There comes "iguana" it ate all termites. Only problem is i have to cut the places where the termites are hiding and iguana does the rest

[monkeyfish]

Just wanted to second the lightning hypothesis, I had a mango tree struck about five years ago, four inch diameter trunk about three feet up, it looked very similar, bark blown off, but my tree was cracked all the way through, fallen over and leaning on the hedge.  I did nothing with it, its still growing and it produced a few fruits this year.