My Moringa is back

My Moringa tree is back. I pruned it hard last year, well I simply chopped it off up to one meter away from ground. It took hard pruning really well before but not this time. It didn’t grow back and appeared dead. I was devastated as it was such a big tree. The only reason I cut it so low is because some of the branches had sooty canker (a fungal disease of the trees) and from my research the best action was to chop off the branches that were affected. Since I read about a practice of cutting moringas all the way to one meter from the ground I decided to give it a go. And now, months after the cut, it’s finally came back. It was such a pleasant surprise. I’m extremely happy. Yes, I compromised one year’s harvest, but I hope to get a stronger tree as a result.

If I find the pictures of when my tree was affected, by the way some of my mulberries were affected too, I’ll post more about what sooty canker is.

Happy Gardening
Yana