symbiotic1
Mame
I've seen a lot of examples on here, especially with tridents, of cases where the tree is planted in the ground to grow for years then chopped and a top branch is used as the new leader in order to create nice taper as opposed (or in addition to) using sacrifice branches.
Does this process work on bald cypress trees or even redwoods/sequoias? I see lots of cypress with a great flaring out at the base from growing in swaps, etc., and I'm wondering if there are ways to develop that when there's no bog nearby.
I also see a lot of collected BC show up on eBay with nice bases but I'm unsure how someone would take one of those and build a nice taper naturally without needing to just carve the hell out of it. Since they never seem to grow strong lower branches to use as sacrificial limbs, I'm curious if the same idea that works on those tridents (chop it low and let a new leader grow) work on these?
I have a BC now that's about 7' tall and somewhere between 1-1.5" at the base. I'd like the finished tree to be 2-3' at most but with about double the base diameter. I'd like to get more or even do a forest but want to figure out what I'm doing and try it on this one first.
Does this process work on bald cypress trees or even redwoods/sequoias? I see lots of cypress with a great flaring out at the base from growing in swaps, etc., and I'm wondering if there are ways to develop that when there's no bog nearby.
I also see a lot of collected BC show up on eBay with nice bases but I'm unsure how someone would take one of those and build a nice taper naturally without needing to just carve the hell out of it. Since they never seem to grow strong lower branches to use as sacrificial limbs, I'm curious if the same idea that works on those tridents (chop it low and let a new leader grow) work on these?
I have a BC now that's about 7' tall and somewhere between 1-1.5" at the base. I'd like the finished tree to be 2-3' at most but with about double the base diameter. I'd like to get more or even do a forest but want to figure out what I'm doing and try it on this one first.