development of a zelkova

[MrWunderful]

I bet amazing broom zelkovas like that are a dime a dozen for Kimura

 

[leatherback]

The only time you need to consider heavier work is on a tree that has been unworked for a few years previously, grown in a big pot etc then it can be better to chop lots off and regrow all the branches from stubs

Yeah, pretty much what I decided to do here:




Many of the trees in the forest had big swollen sections like the one below. I was hoping you would have some insights on timing of big cuts to the trunk to reduce explosive callus / swollen healing sections. I never get my head around what works best there . Never letting the branches get to thick is a good strategy, but that stage has passed here!

junctions tend to be more finer if allowed to sprout from opposing buds on one shoot- where if two shoots are allowed to grow from one junction, they will cause a knuckle to form.

OK, keeping an eye out. With trees where I go back to the bones, I want to avoid the same problems regrowing!

 

[BobbyLane]

Yeah, pretty much what I decided to do here:
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Many of the trees in the forest had big swollen sections like the one below. I was hoping you would have some insights on timing of big cuts to the trunk to reduce explosive callus / swollen healing sections. I never get my head around what works best there . Never letting the branches get to thick is a good strategy, but that stage has passed here!

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OK, keeping an eye out. With trees where I go back to the bones, I want to avoid the same problems regrowing!

Carving

i guess with your method of growing long extensions and big blobs of cutpaste, in a bid to rapidly heal wounds, explosive callus is inevitable. (and course growth)

i reduced the large reverse taper on my big Zelkova with carving!!

 

[leatherback]

your method

You realize I did not grow these right
Trying to restore some poorly managed trees

 

[BobbyLane]

You realize I did not grow these right
Trying to restore some poorly managed trees

yeh thats what a restoration project is all about.
sometimes its not enough to just get in there with a pair of knob cutters to concave a large obtrusive knob. sometimes if you want the resulting callus to be inobtrusive then some carving is required, if this makes a person cringe, you would just have to live with the knobs.

 

[leatherback]

Guess I will keep it like this for a bit.