Collected cornus kousa May 2019

andrecf

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I saved this tree from my wife last year. She hated where it was at in our yard and that it backbuds like crazy. It was a bit late to be collecting, so I didn't want to do too much...so I left the upper branch. I was planning on chopping the upper branch this year back to the main trunk.

Should I repot now or wait another year? It's in a ridiculously deep pot because that's all I had available. It probably weighs 80 pounds. If I repot, should I postpone the chop? I'd like to do both, because the pot is huge and ugly...and so is the upper branch.

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Depends on where you live and how the tree did last year but I would make the chop now and repot it earlier next year. Since you just collected last year I would let it go another year.
 

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I'd chop the big branch, wire key architecture, keep as many surplus and/or sacrifice branches as useful, and mess with roots next year. You have a primo stump with wire-able twigs in lots of places and this critter cries to be a potato with leaves for a very short period, graduating to a very nice short tree. You are a very lucky man. Give your wife a great big kiss!
 

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Thanks for the advice. I chopped the branch and I plan on wiring it this week. I think the scarred side will be the back. It was going to be the front.

Should I cut paste that new chop?
 

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I cut paste all the problematic trees. In my area Kousa is not a problem, but I generally do everything over about an inch diameter on general principle. I view large cut surfaces as an invitation to bugs that navigate with their nose and seek a nice place to live and eat, to say nothing of ever-present spores. I do this in-spite of the science that shows it doesn't heal any better or faster. My experience with Japanese Maple over many years tell me different.
 
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