It's Kev
Omono
Let me knowing all is ok please!
Can't tell you, I was testing that ignore button
Let me knowing all is ok please!
It will have my vote!I'd like to report some 18,000 posts for translation
That's just plain crazy! We appreciate what you and Greg does...never forget that.Kinda wanna approve one of these just to talk shit! Lol!View attachment 184731
Bastards!
I feel like I should be installed in a bowling alley, or a golf green....
Keeping the Nut clean!
Ballwashing!
Sorce
I witnessed one last week. If you go mad without power, you will be tazed.Of course, ever tried to go mad without power? Nobody listens.
Alain, Sorce’s posts don’t make any sense in English either!WTF!
Sorce rules OK.
We love the little bastard. This place would be so boooooring without him!
And he's not a little bastard, it's just that English is not my first language so it's hard to say what you mean tongue-in-cheek to you frigging anglos.
Respect to the one that has his nickname painted on GoogleEarth !
Hare Krishna, Om Shanti.
Where's the bloody rolling paper ?...
Ah ! Here, here, here !
Thanks Adair. If brittle is the case on mature wood, do you think there is a way to soften the mature boxwood branch pre-bend? As in perhaps wrapping bend site with strip of wet cloth days prior to bend, or do you think this would just create more problems?With careful attention to detail, wiring a boxwood with aluminum is the way to go. Use a little heavier (thicker) gauge wire than you “think” is necessary.
Why? So it will hold. You are right. Boxwood is brittle and stiff. So it takes more effort to move, and it takes a stronger wire to keep it in position. What happens is if the wire is too thin, it won’t hold the new position. Then the artist “overbends” hoping that when he lets go, and the branch returns, by bending it more then he wanted, it will set where he wants it.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t work. It either snaps, or if it does hold, it’s only temporary, and the branch returns to its original position. Use a strong enough wire so that once bent, it stays put.
On boxwood, another problem is trying to bend mature wood. It usually doesn’t work. It’s just too brittle. The time to wire boxwood is when the little shoots are very young and have not lignified. Then, you can put in all kinds of curves. The wire can come off in 6 weeks because then it’s lignified, and the curves are permanent.
So, in this regard, you treat them like deciduous trees. Wire the young, soft growth. Not the old mature growth. Azalea, olives, same way.
No pretreatment has any significant effect that I know of. If you lost a young branch due to wiring, it was likely you overmanupulated it during either the wiring or bending process. Young shoots are very delicate, and it takes practice to get the “feel” of it.Thanks Adair. If brittle is the case on mature wood, do you think there is a way to soften the mature boxwood branch pre-bend? As in perhaps wrapping bend site with strip of wet cloth days prior to bend, or do you think this would just create more problems?
I wired a small boxwood this early spring and eventually lost a first branch (not snapped) to exactly what you explained, like the vascular tissue just couldn’t take/repair it.