I like it just fine. I have no plans. Don’t guild the lily. But thanks for your observation as it keeps everyone thinking.@ABCarve Nice tree!
Only thing i noticed is the right trunk it goes straight up and makes a straight right turn in 90° as well that entire branch is fairly straight, you probably already know and there probably isnt a short term fix, what are your toughts about it?
Post#43 kinda says it. The only thing missing is waiting for a flowering spur to develop and that’s where you are at the will of the hawthorn gods (ask @Brian Van Fleet ). What you explained to me in your DM about your pruning methods sounds pretty reasonable. The tree is now at a point where I have to prune off flowering spurs in order to keep the silhouette chased back.OH boy am I enjoying your thread!! All the talk about the shape or pot but really what I find most important is in getting this tree to flower and fruit and how is the pruning incorparated to encourage this!! Please tell us after your 2 year of letting it grow unchecked how you are doing the pruning to keep it flowering ?
I prune for the aesthetics of the tree in general. Can’t control the flowering part so the winter silhouette is the guide. Back-budding is always an issue for keeping the silhouette chased back.Beautiful tree and progression. Do you still practice hedge-pruning/indiscriminate pruning on this tree for ramifiation purposes or do you just focus on setting up the flowering spurs?
Agree. Love the tree. Love the pot. But I don't like the pairing here.Very, very nice !
Would be much, much nicer in another pot...