RobertB
Chumono
great progress shots by the way. I will be marking this thread for future reference and am excited about the forthcoming BLOG post.
I see you like Lynn August also!
I start by pruning out all of the downward growth and the straight upward growth. I then reduce the whorls of new growth that occurs around the flowers to two shoots and cut them (unless I need to lengthen the branch) back to one or two pairs of leaves.
John,
I know a lot of these have pretty good trunks already but the ones that are still being developed you still cut back soo much. I would think, and not knowing much about the topic, that you would want to let the tree bush out to add foliage after foliage in order to build girth in the trunk.
The response above about trimming upwards, downwards, trimming to twos, etc makes sense for I guess what I would consider ramification but do you still trim these this way even if you are trying to grow a tree and get some trunk girth?
By all the downward and the straight upward growth I'm assuming you mean the branches that have backbudded onto the old wood?
When you shorten/prune the whorls of new growth on the tips do you also keep the ones going sideways?
I recently got a tree which I assume has had some health problems so I did an emergency repot and removed all the flower pots in March.
However I must have a missed a few as it produced some lovely flowers which have all (but one) faded now so I pruned and wired it.
But I was afraid to prune back further. Should I?
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My other one was pruned /wired about a week ago and is now pushing new growth again.
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My place looks like a Japanese black pine nursery. You want one of two? Or hell a flat of seedlings?
I had to come back to this thread and share something I ran across today. While doing some reading on Satsuki genetics, I discovered an article that ran in Nature magazine in September of 1991. It's title...."The War of the Whorls: Genetic Interactions Controlling Flower Development".Nice pictorials Looking forward to your article - you have no idea how much time it will save me explaining the process, especially "whorl control" on the phone here along with the rest of the process on the phone or in e-mails
Grimmy
But you are supposed to read and digest it for us!!!!!!!! WTF?I had to come back to this thread and share something I ran across today. While doing some reading on Satsuki genetics, I discovered an article that ran in Nature magazine in September of 1991. It's title...."The War of the Whorls: Genetic Interactions Controlling Flower Development".