Didn't hurt it or slow it down in the least.
Opening up for the potential is not worth the risk IMO.
Them bugs can smell that gushing sap for miles!
Lucking out isn't worth adding to a regular schedule!
IMO.
Little things are only little things until they become big things, then we wish we would have kept on preventing that little thing.
I have an idea that a tree knows, and it does, when pathogens are present. There's not much else to account for why trees bleed sometimes and sometimes not.
So what if a tree leaks, as we sneeze, to keep the output output to prevent input?
What if as long as x ppm of that pathogen is present in the atmosphere, or on near trees, the tree keeps leaking, to keep itself safe?
That entirely possible scenario makes it completely unpredictable, death resulting at worst, so preventing it remains important.
We bleed for the same reason, output, to prevent input of infection.
Sorce