Rinaldo Jossart
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Hi,
My first post I’ve just been reading a lot. But now I have a dilemma and want to know the thoughts of some more experienced growers...
I grew some cultivars of A. Palmatum seeds into 2-3 year old little trees in colanders. My first concern was to get nice radial roots. In the first 2 years the trees created some fine radial roots.
In a month I start repotting and I was wondering what is next.
I’m planning on working the roots some more and place them in a bigger colander. But what about pruning?
Say with one tree I want to have a final height of 40cm and I want a more masculine tree (so fat trunk, thick branches and strong movement) Do I let it grow until the trunk reaches the good size and prune then to create taper and start a new branch each chop? Taking care of large wounds...
Or do I prune now to get some nice movement and grow the branches already? The thickening of the trunk will happen while growing out the branches...
Has someone already tried both methods and share his/her experience? Is it possible to create good taper in the trunk with growing the branches?
And what if we want to create a more feminine tree? Do you put the soft curvatious movement in the trunk when it is still flexible and make the tree without doing a trunk chop? So growing the taper with the branches..
My first post I’ve just been reading a lot. But now I have a dilemma and want to know the thoughts of some more experienced growers...
I grew some cultivars of A. Palmatum seeds into 2-3 year old little trees in colanders. My first concern was to get nice radial roots. In the first 2 years the trees created some fine radial roots.
In a month I start repotting and I was wondering what is next.
I’m planning on working the roots some more and place them in a bigger colander. But what about pruning?
Say with one tree I want to have a final height of 40cm and I want a more masculine tree (so fat trunk, thick branches and strong movement) Do I let it grow until the trunk reaches the good size and prune then to create taper and start a new branch each chop? Taking care of large wounds...
Or do I prune now to get some nice movement and grow the branches already? The thickening of the trunk will happen while growing out the branches...
Has someone already tried both methods and share his/her experience? Is it possible to create good taper in the trunk with growing the branches?
And what if we want to create a more feminine tree? Do you put the soft curvatious movement in the trunk when it is still flexible and make the tree without doing a trunk chop? So growing the taper with the branches..