To chop or not...

[SeanS]

Good move.
Curious, how long does a chop like that take to heal? Curious because I have a large chop on a pine I have been contemplating for a few years.
Anybody?

Apparently you should leave a stub that you wiggle down into a short “jin”, that keeps sap flowing up the stub for a while and helps the callous roll over the first part of the chop. Once it’s healed some you can then remove the remained of the exposed stub and heal the last bit of the wound.

@Eric Schrader has an example of the technique in his “6 years from seed” JBP thread

 

[penumbra]

Thank you.

 

[LanceMac10]

A little cut-putty and some old bark laying around and nobody is the wiser......

JBP in the refinement stage? Cut will never heal in your lifetime.

 

[SeanS]

Thank you.

A few pine seeds, 6 years later.

Very interesting and informative. Thank you. Was wondering about that canker rot on the monterey cypress. I've got a bunch started and would like to avoid it.

www.bonsainut.com

 

[Bu-Jetjet]

Starting to get that “helmet” silhouette

 

[Potawatomi13]

Well, can always grow new trunk.