Dwarf Youpon Schillings

[JoeH]

Got another cart damaged Dwarf Youpon, all the broken branches are from the collision, I've had it for 6-8 months and its flushing back out all over from the cut back I gave it when I removed it. Unfortunately the most vigorous growth is on a split branch. Nice fat trunk with good root flare. Trying to decide what to get rid of. I am going to just get rid of crosses for now.

 

[JoeH]

some more pics, trunk is fat like a soup can. I really like the branch in the second pic with the fresh wound, I pulled off another spit branch there.

 

[JoeH]

no thoughts on this one?

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Looks like great material with plenty of options. I'd be tempted to remove a few more straight sections, but I'm not sure of the recovery prospects of the variety and if you should wait to do so. Cart damaged? like golf cart?

 

[JosephCooper]

Remove one or two of the branches in that area where the trunk splits into six. This is to stop the chances of reverse taper.

Damn, that is a fat trunk!

 

[namnhi]

Is this one going to be clipNgrow style as they are somewhat brittle? This size is nice but not all that large for this type of treeI have just potted 4 over the last 2 weekends. Interested in how one develop these.

 

[JoeH]

Looks like great material with plenty of options. I'd be tempted to remove a few more straight sections, but I'm not sure of the recovery prospects of the variety and if you should wait to do so. Cart damaged? like golf cart?

yeah, golf carts on a walkway that is not supposed to be used by carts. I'm just trying to decide which ones should go, I figure now is the time wth new growth coming on, I could remove some of the thick trunks and that will redirect all the new growth to the keepers.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Just spitballing, but what about a semi-cascade in a crescent pot.. something like this:

 

[JoeH]

Just spitballing, but what about a semi-cascade in a crescent pot.. something like this:

I like that, only problem is the branch you left is the one with the bad split, the one with the most growth.

 

[JoeH]

Is this one going to be clipNgrow style as they are somewhat brittle? This size is nice but not all that large for this type of treeView attachment 182326View attachment 182327View attachment 182328I have just potted 4 over the last 2 weekends. Interested in how one develop these.

I just bend them as they grow, when they are soft.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

I think just go after them with the loppers one more time but try to take out all the long straight sections especially the thick ones. Then clip and grow until the material is talking to you. Looks like some fun material.

 

[JoeH]

I think just go after them with the loppers one more time but try to take out all the long straight sections especially the thick ones. Then clip and grow until the material is talking to you. Looks like some fun material.

Plan to look at it again this weekend, I really like the one branch that I mentioned above, and maybe one other along with the dead stumps.

 

[JoeH]

One Month later...Did some branch removals and am now working it as a clip and grow hoping to develop a few pads. The broken branch is still alive and I've got it bent down by jamming a twig in the split. The rock is between the two branches in an attempt to bend them further apart. The Base of this thing is really nice. Hope to repot it to a bonsai-ish pot next spring. Now its just grow and develop. The stick in the pot is the front I've settled on, gives a nice angle for the view of the root flare.