🙂 love progression photos (specially of good mature trees) any idea how many years between 8-96 and next picture? It seems to be a big gap from no visible nebari to a fully formed one.
Thank you very much for sharing.
Question. My pinus thumbergii has a sacrificial trunk that has two lead tips. Should I remove one of the tips to encourage trunk girth or does it matter?
Hi Robert—- it is possible to use one leader to increase trunk girth and later cut off, keeping the second one smaller and wiring it for movement, and then transitioning to that new trunk line. If you choose that option don’t decandle the first one. Let it run and it will thicken.
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🙂 love progression photos (specially of good mature trees) any idea how many years between 8-96 and next picture? It seems to be a big gap from no visible nebari to a fully formed one.
Thank you very much for sharing.
Hi Paolo, there were several photos in those years but the tree did not develop much. But it did seem the nebari came fast.
Question. My pinus thumbergii has a sacrificial trunk that has two lead tips. Should I remove one of the tips to encourage trunk girth or does it matter?
Hi Robert—- it is possible to use one leader to increase trunk girth and later cut off, keeping the second one smaller and wiring it for movement, and then transitioning to that new trunk line. If you choose that option don’t decandle the first one. Let it run and it will thicken.