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Graham Potter is the king of removing lots of wood so I would watch some of his videos! With your wood working skills you should be able to figure something out, Im sure. I also agree with lots of time to let these trees recover before working. You will never know what to do with that big...

So it has been almost a year since this tree was collected. It's grown very well and is currently without leaves with tons of dormant buds getting ready to go. Should I be looking at the roots to do some further reduction this year or wait until next year?

Second on bougainvillea or desmodium. Wisteria, and azalea are not necessarily beginner trees and Royal Poinciana have giant leaves that do not reduce well. Bougies are a personal favorite of mine.

Being that you are in a good zone for it, I would plant it in the ground for a couple of years and let it thicken up. After that time you can choose a place to chop it and start with a new leader and leave it in the ground to heal and continue to get bigger. After a few of the above cycles you...

Approximately 5 months after my last defoliation and wiring and here we are. I have been working on some primary but mainly secondary branching on this tree. The majority of primary/structural branching is now complete. There are still a few areas I want to add main branches to but they are...

Great progression!! I just went through this whole thread and I definitely did not see the where it was going until the end. Really amazing work!

This is exactly what I was thinking. The only thing I was thinking was possibly trying to get some more spread between the branches you are looking at leaving. Def wouldn't do anything until next spring at repot time.

My guess is that, eventually, they will fuse but my question would be why you would want that? You may have a really incredible design already in mind that I can't see. From my perspective those three lower right branches (on the second picture in the thread) are in an awkward position if you...

Thank you, this definitely makes sense. Do you think I should remove a few of those extending branches so that the growth can be more focused on the eventual trunks that I am keeping?

About 2 and half months later and this tree is huge!! I have just let it grow out wild to ensure that I get good roots after cutting the roots down to basically nothing back in March. The tallest trunk is about 7ft tall now!! Here are a few pictures and an edit showing what I believe will be...

So I have been looking at this tree a lot lately and I think I may need to shorten it up a bit. It is probably about 3 to 4 inches at the nebari but I think it still too tall. Any thoughts and advice would be welcome. Thank you in advance!

Ok, so here's my entry. I live in Miami so gumbo limbo is about as native as you can get. LOL I initially collected this by sawing it away from a large branch that had been cut by landscapers. I literally just planted the large stump with the three main branches coming from the trunk. There...

Sure, removing problem branches that might cause inverse taper and such is fine but I really think you are quite far off from that point.

Hello! My suggestion would be to just let it grow wild for the next two to three years (maybe longer than that) and see what you get. This plant is so small right now that, IMHO, there is really no styling that would work. I honestly don't know much about them but I have worked with them at a...

This is what it looks like today after some more detail work and primary branch selection. Any suggestions are welcome as to next steps or any changes! Thank you I'm advance. Front Right Left Back

In early August 2021 I was driving down the street and saw the county (Miami-Dade) removing a bunch of yaupon hollies from a median. I quickly dropped my son off at his aunt's, turned around, grabbed a large plastic bag and returned to the scene! I asked the guys if I could take one or two...

Here is the bougie defoliated and wired. Next step is to repot. I left that one branch alone to let it thicken up a bit over the rest of the year.

So these are not super conspicuous flowers but that are really cool. They are from a gumbo limbo that I started a couple of years ago from a branch stump that was in a pile!

Here are some pics after removing the bracts.

No worry on that here at all!! This was actually the second full bloom that I removed this year!!

Update on this tree after 8 years!! About three years ago I decided on a totally different direction for this tree. I removed everything except the two main trunks at the bottom. Everything that is seen on this tree has been grown, wired and clip and gown over the last three years. Looking...

After only 6 weeks in the pot this tree is growing like crazy. I put a couple of wires on the tree just to get some initial placement and movement on what I believe will be the future main trunks.

After about a month in the pot there are already some really nice roots spreading through the pot. I have also been doing some searching as to future planning for this tree (I know that this is many years down the road) and I found these pictures. I believe that if I go with my plan of...

I moved it out and can confirm that some of the original leaves have definitely darkened more than I would have expected. I had read that it should be protected but I thought that was about too much sun and not about the cold. It's still growing well though so hopefully will not lose too many...