Nice find was wondering . How you just found it in a field . Did you chop
The trunk just curious how they respond to a drastic chop
This was one of the trees found in the grove that you extracted from the ground and removed the top? About how thick is the trunk and tall was the tree when found? Thanks!
Hi!
The background story is that this tree was grown from seed about 30yrs ago as a test.
It seems to have been "trimmed and maintained" for about 20ish years and left out on its own.
I can't see major chop marks except the one Ive done.
You can see a major "T" branche was removed at the height of tje second branche.
When found it was about 6ft tall with thick lateral branches.
It was chopped down to about 14inch and now mesure 16inches with a 3.5in base.
Last repotted in March 22' in its current pot.
From my limited experience they react well to trunk chop when done at the right time but if you cut too much at once it will backbud everywhere instead of adding to the branches structure
It almost become a problem to a certain extend as this tree is really vigorous.
The repot into a smaller pot start to show its benefits, slowing down the growing rate so I will now be able to concentrate on building secondary and tertiary.