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Here's my strategy for keeping internodal length short, it's a problem with S. Maples for sure.
The red circle is all stuff I know I won't use, the blue circle stuff I probably will use.
I'll prune the outside of the tree in spring but leave the red circled stuff there. If nothing is pruned the blue might not do anything. During the big spring push all the red does grow stupidly long internodes for sure. The blue left behind typically forms nice short spacing. Once hardened off it stays short and the branch or trunk section can be let loose to grow if it needs to. I'm only growing trunk sections and very beginnings of branch for now, not real ramification but it seems to work pretty good so far.
Normally I would have a new leader section (green arrow) with short nodes all set up by the same strategy a season before chopping to it and I did, real nice. It was broken off by a dog, regrown and eaten by a deer so that's what's left but I think it's back on track now.
I don't know if anyone out there really practices this method or not, just thought I'd throw it out there because I like it.
Oh, here's an older shot from the past, red circle that wasn't meant to be kept long term, blue circle popped a bud due to the terminal pruning but grew short useable internodes. That's the current green arrow area but it did suffer accidents so what it is isn't what it was. The strategy is basically just pruning one or two buds distal to what's meant to be used. Especially before the big spring flush. (Kind of seems to be the only flush for me here)
anyone else do this or like the idea?
The red circle is all stuff I know I won't use, the blue circle stuff I probably will use.
I'll prune the outside of the tree in spring but leave the red circled stuff there. If nothing is pruned the blue might not do anything. During the big spring push all the red does grow stupidly long internodes for sure. The blue left behind typically forms nice short spacing. Once hardened off it stays short and the branch or trunk section can be let loose to grow if it needs to. I'm only growing trunk sections and very beginnings of branch for now, not real ramification but it seems to work pretty good so far.
Normally I would have a new leader section (green arrow) with short nodes all set up by the same strategy a season before chopping to it and I did, real nice. It was broken off by a dog, regrown and eaten by a deer so that's what's left but I think it's back on track now.
I don't know if anyone out there really practices this method or not, just thought I'd throw it out there because I like it.
Oh, here's an older shot from the past, red circle that wasn't meant to be kept long term, blue circle popped a bud due to the terminal pruning but grew short useable internodes. That's the current green arrow area but it did suffer accidents so what it is isn't what it was. The strategy is basically just pruning one or two buds distal to what's meant to be used. Especially before the big spring flush. (Kind of seems to be the only flush for me here)
anyone else do this or like the idea?
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