DanS
Seedling
I have a pine that my wife surprised me with from Home Depot when I first really started looking for trees to learn on. Though the thought was very nice, the tree is not. I've been keeping it around trying to decide what I want to do with it and have decided I will use it to practice some more...extreme...techniques. I've been thinking of trying to really torture the trunk to see what it can take and what it produces. I'd like to try to make a twisted, undulating trunk. My strategy would be to start early next spring and give the trunk a good twist and try to wire it to hold the twist and to force a drastic bend, if possible, then plant it in the ground for the summer. Slowly I would like to really transform this little pine to a magnificently twisted tree overtime. Does anyone have any experience doing anything this drastic? Were you successful? Is a pine a decent tree to do this to? Is there a way to increase the chance of survival of the distal trunk/branches above the twist?
Thanks,
Dan
Thanks,
Dan