AndyJ
Shohin
Hey folks.
I don’t know if this question has been answered somewhere in the forum already - apologies if it has, perhaps you can redirect me to the appropriate posts. Anyway.....
Needle plucking - why do it? I’m a little confused - doesn’t pulling needles remove vigour from a branch? And therefore slow the growth of the shoot on that branch? It also makes a branch more leggy doesn’t it and pushes the growth away from the trunk? And then we want to chase the foliage back to the trunk ...... ? If we candle cut JBP’s or pinch JWP’s and Scot’s, we want adventitious buds or needle buds to appear further back along the branches; does plucking needles not damage the bud that we want to develop?
I know needle plucking is very important technique but and I don’t understand when it should be deployed, for what reason, and what the expected outcome is. Can you guys help?
Thanks all,
Andy
I don’t know if this question has been answered somewhere in the forum already - apologies if it has, perhaps you can redirect me to the appropriate posts. Anyway.....
Needle plucking - why do it? I’m a little confused - doesn’t pulling needles remove vigour from a branch? And therefore slow the growth of the shoot on that branch? It also makes a branch more leggy doesn’t it and pushes the growth away from the trunk? And then we want to chase the foliage back to the trunk ...... ? If we candle cut JBP’s or pinch JWP’s and Scot’s, we want adventitious buds or needle buds to appear further back along the branches; does plucking needles not damage the bud that we want to develop?
I know needle plucking is very important technique but and I don’t understand when it should be deployed, for what reason, and what the expected outcome is. Can you guys help?
Thanks all,
Andy