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Masterpiece
LOL. I'm going to get me some bigger tools!
View attachment 100514 Markyscott, your house has almost exactly the same colors as mine.
CW
eight feet tall!!
Nice antenna! A very important part of healing that chop fast.After a spring of growing, here's the woody weed.
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These trees grow like crazy in the Houston climate. They love the heat and sun. It's almost like you can see the wood moving. I wired the spring shoots and cut back once, but left the apex to grow. It put on a good four feet in spring. When it was in the ground, the leader would extend 8-10 feet in a single growing season. But we're not building trunk so much anymore - we're building branches. Time for a bit more work.
Scott
Looks so good I could eat it! It is so much fun watching the fluid like growth of an area like this.Here's how it's doing this season -
April
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July
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Should be pretty much healed over in 2-3 growing seasons.
Scott
Scott,
In post #23, I noticed you wired the leader. Is that to prevent the leader from growing too vertically?
I could hear the three pronged fork scraping the bottom of the rootball from here!Two years of solid growth and roots are outgrowing the pot. Time to see what's going on underneath.
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Never done it like that- making it exit under the tree... is that so there is no scar visible?The seedling should exit below the trunk - run it underneath and up to the soil surface on the other side of the trunk
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Make a chopstick wedge and insert it into the hole above the seedlings roots. Firmly press it into the gap, forcing the roots against the bottom of the hole.
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Cut of the excess
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