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They don't take a long time to heal. They heal very quickly, if you lay off the cut paste and allow the shoots that will arise at the cut site to grow for a season or two. Also helps to have them in deeper containers while training them. I have a 3 in diameter trunk chop that has been healing nicely. It will be a total of about four years to cover a pretty large area. Large limb removal can be enhanced with this and other species by undercutting the limb --cutting a wedge halfway through underneath the branch to be removed--waiting a season, then removing th eentire limb the following year. Leaving the limb in place accelerates the healing of the undercut...

30-Jan-2006	#3
rockm bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Oct-2003 Location: Fairfax, Va Country: USA USDA Zone: 7 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 4,561	They don't take a long time to heal. They heal very quickly, if you lay off the cut paste and allow the shoots that will arise at the cut site to grow for a season or two. Also helps to have them in deeper containers while training them. I have a 3 in diameter trunk chop that has been healing nicely. It will be a total of about four years to cover a pretty large area. Large limb removal can be enhanced with this and other species by undercutting the limb --cutting a wedge halfway through underneath the branch to be removed--waiting a season, then removing th eentire limb the following year. Leaving the limb in place accelerates the healing of the undercut...