hinmo24t
Masterpiece
Some inspiration
Bloodgood and coral bark maples
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Srt8madness
Omono
The above must be a bastard seedling, if it turns green during summer. Bloodgoods stay shades of red/purple. If fact I'd bet that comment is in response to someone asking if it's a Bloodgood 
hinmo24t
Masterpiece
perhaps, yeahThe above must be a bastard seedling, if it turns green during summer. Bloodgoods stay shades of red/purple. If fact I'd bet that comment is in response to someone asking if it's a Bloodgood
Paradox
Imperial Masterpiece
The above must be a bastard seedling, if it turns green during summer. Bloodgoods stay shades of red/purple. If fact I'd bet that comment is in response to someone asking if it's a Bloodgood
Ive seen bloodgood take on a greenish hue, but they are still purple. Ive read that it has to do with the amount of light they get. IIRC they will get a little greenish if they are under lower light. They dont turn green like a green maple. I had two bloodgoods years ago and that is what I saw happen, kind of like a dusting of green color on the purple. Could be a different variety of bloodgood I suppose though.
hinmo24t
Masterpiece
good description - i have one in my front yard as a landscape tree, i need to get around to posting it
because it is 20ish years old and has recovered from hard prune i did on it about 35 years ago, came out nice
i did go back to that instagram post and @str8madness was correct, the person who owns it claims it isnt bloodgood that i posted (oops). i thought it looked exactly like one though - nice looking trees that guy has in seattle
Ugo
Shohin
Hi Shibui,
Thanks that means alot to me!
I must admit I dont have much merit, well I dont even know if I will have merit for adapting this type of work on my trees but it all started when I forgot to prune my ficus, there was way more new braches developing then any other year, this guy react fast so it was easy to try variations here and there and finally find the proper one atleast to work with the tree to build secondary / tertiary ramification.
I applied a similar technique to decidous that has the same behavior when pruned like my blood good maple for example but a bit different.
My ficus, if you prune an under developed branche to first node, it will grow a single branche from that node with very long internodes and the tree will stay at the exact same point if I repeat this process oven and over again and I was tired of it!
For my ficus If I let the new branche elongate 6-8 leaves untouched, small lateral branches will start to elongate, I can then pinch the tip of the main branche to stop elongation of the main and concentrate the energy towards the new growth branches left untouched.
I will let theses small new branches grow stronger while keeping in mind Its possible to remove 1 out of 2 leaves from the main branche during this process or simply wait.
After that I come back and cut back keeping all new branches or atleast minimum 2 as one will be used as a "leader" the other one as a lateral.
I wait until theses gets 6-8 leaves and re-apply.
if I reduce to only one branche I now know the tree wont put out 2 new branches from the node It will grow a single one with long internodes.
I will end up with basicly the same situation so I keep minimum 2 and I wait as theses 2 new branches now will probably have shorter internodes as more energy as been spent growing 2 instead of 1 and the result will either be correct right away or will put meat on the tree allowing me to re-apply the technique and rebuild as I want.
Im trying to document in images as the seasons go and adapt this technique on more decidious and evergreen like spruce notable for creating long shoots.
Im sure you will end-up with a better process so please dont forget to share it!!
Thanks again for your good comment
Ugo
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