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NIce trunk, and you've deffinately chosen the best front. I have no experiance with these at all but some wood hardener might help to keep the borers out, maybe some one here has more insight as to how to best deal with this problem. Other than that I'd pretty much forget that this tree exists for at least the next year or two, and let it bush out like mad, don't pinch,prune, trim, or train anything on this one untill you have WAY too many branches(beware of swelling though where many branches grow from one area on the trunk, by removing some of the branches in these areas, right down to the trunk)and then you can give it a bit of an Edward Scisorhands, hard pruneto the first twig on each branchto start developing branch taper, I have seen some great things done with malus using almost all clip and grow training techniques, it takes quite a while before you will begin to see the tree shape that you want but it really looks a lot nicer than just a wired and ramified tree.
Keep us posted, this could be a great long term series on clip and grow.

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6-Aug-2006	#4
zen w/ Hippyistic Tendencies Join Date: Jan-2005 Location: Commerce GA (Near Athens) Country: U.S. USDA Zone: 7b AHS Heat Zone: 7 Posts: 1,844	NIce trunk, and you've deffinately chosen the best front. I have no experiance with these at all but some wood hardener might help to keep the borers out, maybe some one here has more insight as to how to best deal with this problem. Other than that I'd pretty much forget that this tree exists for at least the next year or two, and let it bush out like mad, don't pinch,prune, trim, or train anything on this one untill you have WAY too many branches(beware of swelling though where many branches grow from one area on the trunk, by removing some of the branches in these areas, right down to the trunk)and then you can give it a bit of an Edward Scisorhands, hard pruneto the first twig on each branchto start developing branch taper, I have seen some great things done with malus using almost all clip and grow training techniques, it takes quite a while before you will begin to see the tree shape that you want but it really looks a lot nicer than just a wired and ramified tree. Keep us posted, this could be a great long term series on clip and grow. __________________ "Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work." ~ Alan Watts (1915-1973)