Old White Oak with TearTear

Yup. Kind of cool that the arborists in the 15th century saw buds as "eyes"...it's like that little embryonic plant part was just looking at them and winking. :)

So the holes are filled with one part porous aggregate and other parts mycorrhizal material, such as soil and roots harvested from a healthy tree of the same species, and/or other bioactive material, so the mycelia of the introduced mycorrhizae and other microbes can graft onto the roots of the subject tree:

"From Middle English inoculate, from Latin inoculātus, perfect passive participle of inoculō ‎(“ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant”), from in ‎(“in”) + oculus ‎(“an eye”).
  1. (transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease. [from a. 1722]  [transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
  2. To add one substance to another; to spike.
    The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
  3. To graft by inserting buds. [from c. 1420]  [quotations ▼]
    to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
    to inoculate a tree"



 
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