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Originally Posted by Yurup
Hi Wabashene,
Your giving close to the same advice I gave to Weeijk around september.
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Great minds think alike.
:-)
Once you've made early decisions with larch, you seem to be more or less stuck with them.
I have a tall thin-ish one that will probably end up as some sort of far view sparse upright if indeed I pursue it all.
Also a slanting one where I was a bit wiser and it has a bit more shape to it and developing quite well currently.
These are old pictures .
The one on the right has never produced a single bud in the areas lined in red over 4-5 years despite hard pruning the branches back every winter. This has left gaps in the tree. There's plenty of healed scars though where I pruned off what I thought to be unwanted branches.
I learned one thing though, selection/position of final branches is one of the last tasks - not the first!
TimR