Carpinus Stump Cutting

[BobbyLane]

This is a stump cutting taken from the base of a stump that had two levels of feeder/woody roots.
Think it was around winter 2022 when I sawn it off and just stamped it into the ground. There were maybe a couple small nodes on it, I went out to check periodically and noticed one of the buds had really took off.

Im now seeing a future for it as a raft/clump...

The cutting may have been taken from the base of this one, was around that time


I didn't expect the offcut to survive the winter planting.
Recently dug it up and planted in a tub to give the new shoots a chance. It will get more light n feed on my balcony.

 

[BobbyLane]

It seems healthy


The stump reminds me of a cliff edge. The trees growing on the edge.
Could be a tree that rotted to the ground but lives on, regenerating itself.
At some point will hollow it right out.

 

[pandacular]

The stump reminds me of a cliff edge. The trees growing on the edge.

I see that as well--in De Groot's book, he has a section on mountain style penjing which use a number of small trunks to represent trees growing on a cliff.