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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,466
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The first branch that I wired is starting to lignify. It is turning brown slowly but should be good and hard by fall. Most branches will bot fork untill the have gone thru the lignification process. A green shoot for the most part will just continue to grow forward.
As I scraped around at the soil I found that the plant has only a couple large roots off of one side of the plant. Zelcova and elms are notorious for having very large fleshy roots.
I compensated for this by ground layering the tree on the opposite side of the large roots. On inspection tonite I noticed that some roots have already emerged from the cut. No hormone on this one just a cut and bury with a patch of moss on the cut. It is rooting along the rest of the cut too, they just are too small to photograph. I did 180 degrees of the trunk. Next year I will do the other half.
Cheers, Al
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