StoneCloud
Omono
This started out as a landscape shrub picked out by the wife. It didn't do well in it's location and wasn't taken care of the best either. So around Jan/Feb of this year I made the decision to pull it out and see what can be done.
The progress so far has been ugly, however the shrub is really starting to become a tree. There are many years of work ahead.
It has become worthy enough to track so I'm starting a thread
8/29/2016
Original location front of the house. Direct sun from 12pm to sundown:
After the pic above, it survived, white flies, aphids, sooty mold, and duck attacks. It was going to die.
February 2017: Dug it out
I don't have pics of the wilting, but it wilted hard for a week. thought it was going to die, but it didn't!
March 2017: Cut it back hard. Removed dead, diseased and unwanted material:
At this point it was really ugly and had been pushed hard, but not too far....
I let it recover until until the end of April at which point removal of one of those trunks was needed.
April 29, 2017 Removal of 2nd trunk and wiring:
Still Ugly. Now it needs weeding! And a giant mushroom somehow arose!!!!
A month later growing well on June 1st, 2017:
Then 2 weeks later on the 15th of June:
I pruned back some long exentsions and left the branches that I will wire later this week.
Here is the tree today:
In between these photos and major work I only trimmed leaves to keep it from being overgrown........
Wiring will come next......
The progress so far has been ugly, however the shrub is really starting to become a tree. There are many years of work ahead.
It has become worthy enough to track so I'm starting a thread
8/29/2016
Original location front of the house. Direct sun from 12pm to sundown:
After the pic above, it survived, white flies, aphids, sooty mold, and duck attacks. It was going to die.
February 2017: Dug it out
I don't have pics of the wilting, but it wilted hard for a week. thought it was going to die, but it didn't!
March 2017: Cut it back hard. Removed dead, diseased and unwanted material:
At this point it was really ugly and had been pushed hard, but not too far....
I let it recover until until the end of April at which point removal of one of those trunks was needed.
April 29, 2017 Removal of 2nd trunk and wiring:
Still Ugly. Now it needs weeding! And a giant mushroom somehow arose!!!!
A month later growing well on June 1st, 2017:
Then 2 weeks later on the 15th of June:
I pruned back some long exentsions and left the branches that I will wire later this week.
Here is the tree today:
In between these photos and major work I only trimmed leaves to keep it from being overgrown........
Wiring will come next......