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Join Date: Jan-2004
Location: Ottawa, KS
Country: USA
Posts: 1,730
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Korean hornbeam project.
I purchased this tree from Brussel's Bonsai back in 1997, I think. It's always had those hornbeam roots, very bad from the back. I am considering air layering this tree in the future. There is a large wound toward the top of the tree that I have been fighting with for years. Of course, I didn't understand at that time that hornbeams close wounds slowly if at all. I was using the green sticky stuff for covering cuts, and so the tissue died back. It only began reversing that trend over the last two years, when I finally was able to apply better technique and used the cut putty that will pull away from the wood.
Today I defoliated, unwired, rewired, pruned, and grafted. The leader was thick and leaned toward the back, so I raised a new one, trimmed the old, and grafted a back branch up to provide a branch there and help heal the wound.
It's not great material, but it's providing me valuable information and practice. BTW, this one isn't on the website.
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