aml1014
Masterpiece
Hey everyone, just thought I'd share yet another tree I got from work for free.
This tree was purchased by a customer who "forgot" to water it (lots of people don't believe me when I say they need to water regularly in summer)
Well it came back to my work in a trash bag and brittle as can be. I chopped it back until I could see the purple cambium these have and left it to do its thing. I finally brought it home the other day to start cleaning up the deadwood. This is a grafted tree but as my luck would have it, 2/3s of the trunk died and that included the ugly graft scar. The trunk is 1.5" at the base and is 3.5" to the chop. After going around the tree and cutting away dead bark until I found life I found that I had some very nice taper already traveling up into the new trunkline.
I plan to cut the top growth back VERY hard this autumn and I will repot into a 6"×6" grow box next spring.
Here's the side of the trunk that I've chosen to be my front as its not littered with dead lol and it has a nice rootspread.
Here's the dead portion Of the trunk, you can see where the graft was.
And here's the whole tree.
Hopefully this will make a nice mame or small shohin in the next 5 years or so.
Aaron
This tree was purchased by a customer who "forgot" to water it (lots of people don't believe me when I say they need to water regularly in summer)
Well it came back to my work in a trash bag and brittle as can be. I chopped it back until I could see the purple cambium these have and left it to do its thing. I finally brought it home the other day to start cleaning up the deadwood. This is a grafted tree but as my luck would have it, 2/3s of the trunk died and that included the ugly graft scar. The trunk is 1.5" at the base and is 3.5" to the chop. After going around the tree and cutting away dead bark until I found life I found that I had some very nice taper already traveling up into the new trunkline.
I plan to cut the top growth back VERY hard this autumn and I will repot into a 6"×6" grow box next spring.
Here's the side of the trunk that I've chosen to be my front as its not littered with dead lol and it has a nice rootspread.
Here's the dead portion Of the trunk, you can see where the graft was.
And here's the whole tree.
Hopefully this will make a nice mame or small shohin in the next 5 years or so.
Aaron
