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Old 6-Dec-2007   #6
GinaRothfels
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Originally Posted by Salvelinus
Here is a more recent picture of my tree, from our club's show this past October. You can see it has filled out even more. Really, it doesn't take long with these trees.

That's a real beauty. I would love for my tree to look similar to that one day.

I had thought about taking off the thick lower branch because it's only about 2 inches from the bottom (the tree is about 10 inches high), but I forgot about its use for thickening the trunk. Stupidly I was thinking about what the tree would look like now, rather than in a few years' time.

After reading your post, I think it might be best just to repot and wire the tree and keep all the branches for now. Should I shorten all the branches, or only the top ones?
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