october

Hello legato.....so this is the tree heh......looks pretty good. It looks like I was accurate about how most of the interior is still young and the branches have not hardened off yet. How did the pruning and pinching go? You did a good job with the branch placement all the way down to the tip. In a couple of years, the foliage will thicken up and form pads, which is the look you want. I would give it a week or so then start fertilizing. You can fertilize into the beginning of October. If you do decide to repot this fall, you should not fertilize until next spring. This is because you would want to give it time to rest and by then it would be late fall and all fertilizing should stop anyway. Once again, nice job.