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Here's a little Maple project, from a seed my mom planted a while back.
My maples have had a habit of shooting off great growth in early spring then just stopping and doing little more than grow some new buds. So I gave it a pretty hard prune hoping to initiate another growth period this summer. Then I guess the gate was left open, one of those deer came in, pruned it some more and ate nearly all the remaining leaves. Oh well, I always wondered what defoliation would do for the large leaves on this tree. The next trunk section will be one of the two upper twigs that still have a couple leaves left.
My maples have had a habit of shooting off great growth in early spring then just stopping and doing little more than grow some new buds. So I gave it a pretty hard prune hoping to initiate another growth period this summer. Then I guess the gate was left open, one of those deer came in, pruned it some more and ate nearly all the remaining leaves. Oh well, I always wondered what defoliation would do for the large leaves on this tree. The next trunk section will be one of the two upper twigs that still have a couple leaves left.