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Old 8-May-2008   #14
Vance Wood
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Originally Posted by BonsaiSteve1
Hello,

Like Vance said, "Do not take off more than 30% of the top at any one time."

I recently acquired a Mugo for a Roy Nagatoshi workshop. They are great trees.

One important piece of advice he gave is not to do a lot of pruning on it all at once. Many moons ago, Roy did a workshop in Mississippi and they all had Mugo Pines. He had them do a bunch of pruning on them and EVERY tree died. He trimmed mine up a little and said not to touch it for a year.

Just keep this in mind....

Sound right Vance??


I've doen far more than one third and gotten away with it but I generally don't suggest others do the same; I hate people blaming me when things go bad.
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