Nice work. I'm always a sucker for just watching people work on trees, so the way you did this one works great. I even didn't have time to watch the whole thing when you posted it, but appreciated the ability to fast forward to certain parts and still hear you talking about what you were doing. If you were to edit it down, it would take you longer, and remove the ability for people to pick and choose what parts they wanted to focus on. I plan on going back when I have a less busy week and re-watching the entire thing. So, yes, more please. =)
It's always cool to see a challenging part, and then hear the artist walk through the logic of what they're doing as they're doing it.
And you may have covered this, so feel free to point me to a particular point in one of the videos, but what was your thought on the apex? Did you leave it long to encourage it to fill in before further reducing it? I could almost imagine just snipping the whole top branch back to the obvious canopy, but I could also see it being interesting if it filled in more, and raised the canopy line up a few inches.
Just curious to know where you see that going.
Very nice tree.
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it!
Reason for me asking what people would prefer... is that it is hard often trying to obviously interpret this... because, I too if I had my choice would rather just crank the music and just film me working!
After going through and seeing where the most "views" are for the various videos I have done... they seem to be pointing more at the videos that were just me doing the work, without all the lecture, so to speak behind them.
Ijust wasn't sure if it was due to perhaps the subject, in this case being a juniper... verses other types of trees... or just due to the lecture. The last thing I would want to do, obviously is lecture at people! especially if they are not interested! I want the videos to be fun, and want people to watch them.
As far as your question... yes I could of reduced the height. Would not of been a problem. But, this area actually help demonstrate in the video, what could possibly be done with a very difficult section of the trunk, and how to go about dealing with... or creating other avenues to venture down, other than just the removal.
Often, we run into areas within a trunk with multiple branching coming out of one spot, bad taper issues, etc. That normally one might think the only option is to remove... hopefully, the video showed there is always multiple options.
I threw up a leader, to let it grow out, to resolve a taper issue at the top of the trunk. After this grows out... I would then cut it back to the first or second set of branching and make the tree not any higher. Foemina are very apex driven... so, more than likely I will be able to cut it come next spring, and begin to finish of the top of the tree. I could cut it now... just would take longer to resolve.
The goal is... that you would see the shari and jin stop at the top in a negative open space... then the apex would be just above.
