Yeah....I definitely didn't organize that well.
This pic made me think of the difficulty in utilizing the backward "F". The F to me is the most unnatural feeling shape to start from. I would do Smokes stick figure excersize to "feel" that.
From there I moved onto the new drawn rendition, which I like, but somehow this thought popped up of how drawings (as helpful as they are @Anthony
) have this ability to keep us too static, too rigid. Not that it effects you, it was just a random thought, until I thought about how, circumstantially, you may be extra prone to that trap of exacting staticness, due to the fact that stand building more or less requires it. Not that it's happening, but I couldn't think it and not share it.
A new now idea of the perils of drawings, complete sidenote....you see how the first game plan drawing has the left branch a little closer to the trunk, slightly more upright. These little "fakes", misdrawn lines, if seen as the foundation of what we are building, don't really exist, so everything built on them may be not as good as the drawing. Again not that that's happening, but a danger to watch for.
Lines....at some point around my Smoke Stick figure excersize thought, I wanted to ask you to view the lines of this tree, more along the "lines" of stand building, which is akin to the Smoke excersize, to see the, what may even be unfixable odd F shape. But I'm not here to make your decision, only to make you think deeper about your decision, and make your own conclusion, which I except will be different than mine, because I hope for it to just point out the difficulty I wish for you to overcome. Because you have a determination that is greater than mine, I just think a lot.
So I would probably have done exactly the same thing to this point....except taking the easy out when confronted with the F shape.
Except for when I thought you said you didn't like the lumps, but what you actually said was, "I'll embrace them", which to me is, "I don't like them", but in the "negative space" of the idea, if you will. The subsequent growth you got says you don't have to "embrace them" if you don't wish, with which I fully agree, which prompted the thoughts about going back to see what you actually accomplished, so you can know you can make this whatever you wish, even sans lumps.
The proof pic.
That one extra branch on the right side is the only thing that soured perfection IMO.
Things like, "I can't believe the growth I got on this", and, "these things bud like crazy all down the trunk", are the things that go against keeping this imperfection. I think you could've started a branch lower off that knob, or could all together start it over. I know it will take so much more bud rubbing to keep it clean, few people are worth the effort of telling this to. Your determination makes you one of the few.
I would like to ask how you are approaching bud rubbing and pruning. For me, with trees like this, I consider the 80% of buds rubbed out as most of the available pruning for the year, so I wouldn't prune anything off the parts you wish to keep.
I have a few more thoughts on why I don't like the new drawing, but it is subtle dumb shit and I wanted to get all this cleared up first.
I just feel like you wanted better than this, and the truth that you absolutely can have better than this seems to have gotten lost in time. I'd rather you embrace your excellence than these lumps!
Sorce
, lol ..but seriously, I had to go looking for if that was intentional, but I found so many other interesting things I forgot to care, but damn...lol! Cheers.
