5-Year Native Tree/Native Pot - Ulmus Americana consideration - (HorseloverFat)

[BrianBay9]

Nice. The change in planting angle will help quite a bit.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Nice. The change in planting angle will help quite a bit.

Thank you! I thought it was an elegant solution to "the weird"

I'm hoping for some better(lower on the primary) branch-leading options on that upper-right... I'm considering pruning it back further, to NOT even "give it other options".

 

[HorseloverFat]

So much vigor was noted DIRECTLY following budbreak, that I decided to clip those "wings" a little, get some growth were it matters.

Before

3 After shots... truth shots.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Maintenance, "wood work" and light shaping

Before.

Couldn't get the new proposed angle "right" for the shot... but you get the idea.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Once again.. not the proposed angle...

But this is after one more round of selection, and un-wiring..

Will wire in next week.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Well... (My apologies, I cannot access my stockpile of photos from my non-functioning phone.)

Here we are... with the main Ulmus NOW... no more work for the season remaining.


And the cutting.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Upon repot, I realized how poor the root system really was.

So I cut a strip around and buried it deep, in hopes of ground layering.


(Picture taken a week after I moved it outside)
This one got the "early-bird" treatment and spent march and April in a heated greenhouse we slapped together.

It has been pushing non stop..for those three months.

So today I decided to test the tree, and performed branch selection to deter swelling and defoliation.





Let us see what happens.

 

[HorseloverFat]