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Originally Posted by tachigi
Below is are pictures of one of my cork bark elms the first picture shows the hard prune. The second shows it 6 months later with our very own Ianb. The last what I hope in my minds eye what it will look like.
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What I'm aiming to do would put the chop back into the corkbark. My planned chop is much more severe than your photo illustrates, having left the main branches in place to develop the tree from. What I want to know is if buds will pop from UNDER the corkbark (to
develop the branching). I have suspicion that it will though.
I know the ginkgo is gonna be slow growing, and slow to heal. I'm mostly concerned with whether it'll bud if I cut it back (leaving a handful of low-ish buds below the chop site). I was planning to reduce the roots and do the chop in one session so maybe I'll have to rethink. Are you guys speaking from experience with nursery-stock-grown ginkgos? Thanks
Graydon for the petro jelly tip. That'll come in handy I'm sure.
Thanks again,
wf