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In addition, a sprinkler irrigation system has been installed to hydrate it daily and the parterre has been coated with a vegetable crusher to withstand moisture and to act as an insulation against the new situation of the tree after the fall.
The main specialists of the country, in coordination with the municipal technicians, have designed a plan for the exhaustive care of the tree to facilitate its regrowth and growth with the highest safety requirements.
The ficus of Santo Domingo has already begun the road to its recovery.
To this end, the Department of Modernization of Administration, Urban Quality and Participation, directed by José Guillén, has implemented a series of short, medium and long-term measures to facilitate the re-growth and growth of the specimen, on the basis of The maximum security.
To this end, the City Council has consulted with the greatest experts on unique trees in the country, among them Gerard Passola, who has visited the Plaza de Santo Domingo this week to study the state of the tree.
The measures already implemented consist of the installation of a jute cloth so that the sun does not touch the wood directly to keep the bark alive and avoid burns, since the specimen has lost the protection previously provided by its own branches.
The installation of a sprinkler system and nebulizers has also begun to facilitate the refreshment of the tree on a daily basis.
Also, the parterre has been coated with a wood crushed to hold more moisture and act as an insulation.
It is, as Guillén explained, "to recreate an environment as close to the previous situation".
In recent weeks, all types of tests and tests, including tomography and resistografies, etc., have been carried out to verify the state of the ficus and its capacity for regeneration and regrowth, and an almost artisanal wound treatment is being carried out with an antibiotic Which prevents pathogenic fungi from being installed in them.
On the other hand, progressively, as the new outbreaks evolve, technical decisions will be adopted on what dimension the tree should acquire and how far it should be allowed to grow, although we already know that it will have to lose monumentality to gain in Security, should reduce laterality to gain verticality and we must limit it to the interior of the parterre, explained José Guillén, who insisted that 'in all decisions, the security premium preserves to the maximum the tree'.
There are parts of the ficus that must now be preserved as the structure and basis of the new growth, which over time will have to disappear because they are damaged, and be gradually replaced, over the years, by the new branches that will appear and form the new Structure of the tree.
Therefore, the capacity of growth of the ficus, the dimensions of the new branches and the position of each one, will be studied to monitor the structure and volume that the tree must reach, which the municipality will demand, after the damages suffered by the Accident, a security coefficient 20 times higher than a tree of these characteristics is usually requested.
On the other hand, José Guillén has announced that the Garden of Floridablanca will probably return to open this weekend, once the technicians have finished the review of the trees and conclude the pruning in height that is taking place these days.
Likewise, the part bounded in Santo Domingo will be reduced as soon as the work that is being carried out today for the installation of the textile of jute in the ficus finishes.
Later, once the anchorage system is placed to increase the safety in the high parts of the tree, the closed part will be completely suppressed, leaving the whole place diaphanous.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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