markyscott
Imperial Masterpiece
The bitter ends of the wire we’re looped around an 8 gauge apical wire. We bent the tree by hand, a bit at a time, tightening the guy wire as we went. There was deadwood on the opposite side of the trunk as the bend. Always a danger, so we went slow. But the callous separated cleanly from the deadwood. Once it gave, the tree really bent pretty easily with minimal damage to the live tissue. I think it could go further, no problem. Question is, do you think it needs to?