Redwood Ryan
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If I go with the first virtual image, this is what the tree could look like when defoliated. Something to drool about?
HUGE Ficus microcarpa
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After removing the right branch, extending the left, and rounding out the canopy:
Although, that left branch may be too long...
Although, that left branch may be too long...
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Very nice.... now make it happen.
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A great, free one that's like Photoshop. It's called Gimp (I use Gimp 2).
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This guys grown a nice, full canopy, so I'll wait another few weeks before I cut back hard.
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Redwood Ryan
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curious question ... Why would you cut it back hard ???
Not trying to be a pain here, but judging by your last virt of what you want to do, and your pics
you just posted... I would say that you would be probally better off just deciding which branches
you want to keep for lower branches, and which ones you want to make the continuing trunk of
your tree and just eliminating the others that you don't want. The one's you keep, allow them to
grow for the remainder of the year, and then next spring cut back hard.
This will allow what you kept to thicken up tremendously and carry up your taper from the base.
Remember, cutting back hard really is only useful when you either don't have anything to work
with, and you are trying to get something to bud out where there is nothing...
Or when you have your main branches in place and you are starting to work on your secondary
brances and so on...
Nice tree, and keep up the good work !!!
Thanks Stacy, I just really want to get some backbud going on. I won't be cutting back for a while, at least another month or so, if I cut back this year at all. What you mentioned is certainly an option, though.
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Even in the 105F weather this tree is still happily pushing growth:
Alex DeRuiter
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More pictures, please! 
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More pictures, please!
Of what??I've been thinking about removing this crossing root, like it shows in the virt:
Alex DeRuiter
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I like the idea, but it really depends on the front (which I'm sure you already know). About the virt, are you referring to the one on page 3?
What you could definitely do with this is either cut that root off -- not at the trunk, but at a point where new roots could sprout out and create a non-crossing, tapered root -- and plant it a little bit deeper to promote root growth at the chop point. This is a bit of work and time, of course, but I think it could yield an even more impressive nebari. Though I do think, based on that virt on page 3, it probably wouldn't take too much away from the tree if it were cut off entirely.
What you could definitely do with this is either cut that root off -- not at the trunk, but at a point where new roots could sprout out and create a non-crossing, tapered root -- and plant it a little bit deeper to promote root growth at the chop point. This is a bit of work and time, of course, but I think it could yield an even more impressive nebari. Though I do think, based on that virt on page 3, it probably wouldn't take too much away from the tree if it were cut off entirely.
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Yep, the one in post #24 on page 3. I wouldn't completely remove it, maybe just chop off the crossing part, dust it with rooting hormone, then let it root and grow on.
Alex DeRuiter
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You could even mix some Turface (or an equivalent) with sphagnum moss and just bunch it up around the area that you cut and pray for roots.
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That's a good idea as well, thanks.
Here are a few more pictures, just for you
Here are a few more pictures, just for you
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Here are some close ups of where those roots cross:
