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Anyone out there find that as their trees develop and begin to get to that stage
where they are ready to show, that the amount of work that one needs to do
to them seems to double, if not triple ???
Yikes !!! and all this time all I ever heard folks talk about was what do they do
when they finish a tree...
I'll tell you what they do... probably twice as much as what it took to get it there !!!
So there's re-wiring to maintain it's shape, which by the way is usually that much harder,
seeing that you now have a lot more foliage to try and work around, cleaning out old
and dead foliage, trimming foliage, pinching foliage,trying to encourage new foliage,
balancing out the tree's growth, seeing that it never fails that the tree wants to grow
stronger on the top, which requires thinning out heavier branches for those that are finer,
more wiring, now one has to redesign the apex seeing that most of the foliage at the top
was attached to those heavier branches, then there's repotting, root trimming, soil changing,
pot selecting, which seems to be like a pair of shoes, that you need different one's for
different occasions, pot cleaning, weed pulling, moss fixing, stand selecting, accent and
scroll choosing... convention planning... award winning, not to mention tree bragging !!!
Then you have to build a shelves to put those trophy's on, worry about you tree dying,
bugs infesting, branches from above falling, cat's peeing, someone stealing, and the list
goes on and on and on and on and on!!!
Man !!! Kinda makes you wonder why we don't just enjoy them in those plastic falling apart
filled with weeds, crappy soil, nursery pots... At least with them when they take a tumble
off the bench, one just picks it back up... put's it back in the pot... and presto, one's off
to have a beer !!!
I guess when you become a pretty princess, it takes a lot to maintain those good
looks !!!
where they are ready to show, that the amount of work that one needs to do
to them seems to double, if not triple ???
Yikes !!! and all this time all I ever heard folks talk about was what do they do
when they finish a tree...
I'll tell you what they do... probably twice as much as what it took to get it there !!!
So there's re-wiring to maintain it's shape, which by the way is usually that much harder,
seeing that you now have a lot more foliage to try and work around, cleaning out old
and dead foliage, trimming foliage, pinching foliage,trying to encourage new foliage,
balancing out the tree's growth, seeing that it never fails that the tree wants to grow
stronger on the top, which requires thinning out heavier branches for those that are finer,
more wiring, now one has to redesign the apex seeing that most of the foliage at the top
was attached to those heavier branches, then there's repotting, root trimming, soil changing,
pot selecting, which seems to be like a pair of shoes, that you need different one's for
different occasions, pot cleaning, weed pulling, moss fixing, stand selecting, accent and
scroll choosing... convention planning... award winning, not to mention tree bragging !!!
Then you have to build a shelves to put those trophy's on, worry about you tree dying,
bugs infesting, branches from above falling, cat's peeing, someone stealing, and the list
goes on and on and on and on and on!!!
Man !!! Kinda makes you wonder why we don't just enjoy them in those plastic falling apart
filled with weeds, crappy soil, nursery pots... At least with them when they take a tumble
off the bench, one just picks it back up... put's it back in the pot... and presto, one's off
to have a beer !!!
I guess when you become a pretty princess, it takes a lot to maintain those good
looks !!!