Structural Pruning Japanese Maple

[AndyJ]

Hi folks,

I've not been too well this year and haven't looked after my trees as well as I wanted to. Broken trunk on JW due to poor thought and planning, wire cutting in to beech branches, dead trees that fell off the bench and I didn't notice....

Anyway, I'm feeling a little better now and had a look at one of my JM and found another tree I'd wired and forgotten about. The wire has bitten in quite a lot and I fear it will take years to recover. I've had a look and think I can redesign it by cutting off the scarred trunk.

So my question is, am I too late to do this now? Still a few weeks of growing possible this year - will it be OK? Or do I wait for next summer?

Thanks all,

Andy

 

[ConorDash]

I think we have more than a few weeks.
I wouldn't say its bang in the middle of strong growing but I would say its fine to do a few major branch cuts on an Acer P now. I did a few weeks ago on mine.

As long as the tree is healthy and strong.