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Originally Posted by anttal63
ALRIGHT MY CREWS BACK ON!irene and larry thanks for your encouragement, you see john you are wanted.
now i warn you all out there dont anybody piss my my boys off again.
chris thanks for that i now need to make the decision is a shorter tree in order or is it just right. what do you guys think?
i will get wire on it soon an post back up
one more thing im a bit uncomfortable with the tree planted so high, painful to water and ferterlise. would a repot be reccomended this coming spring or voodoo.
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I'd still suggest waiting until late winter to wire. There are two best times to wire Japanese black pine. The first is late winter or earliest spring before the buds begin to move. The second is immediately after removing all the candles, when the new buds haven't formed yet. This is a good time not to worry about breaking off tender buds.
I don't know that I'd cut this one down. If you cut it, then you have to begin again, developing the new trunk line for taper. This one tapers pretty well except for one little knot that can be disguised. You could, however, shorten this one considerably just by wiring judiciously. Think about it..the pointy "apex" idea is long past. Young trees have pointed apices. Old trees have rounded crowns.
If you wire without a major pruning in, say, July for you, and do it without manhandling it too much, I don't see why you couldn't repot in August or whichever month would be normal repotting time.
My question early in the thread about your weather had more to do with the differences in geography than hemisphere. My advice about repotting etc. would be far different for Kansas than for San Francisco, and we are in the same hemisphere. In the San Francisco Bay area, repotting time is in January for almost everything! In Kansas, we still have at least two if not three months of winter left while the umes are blooming in SF.