These trees have two major things on their agenda for the next few years. My problem is that I don’t have a clue as to the best order to do them in. I need to start somewhere.
The first plan of attack may be the ground layering for the new nebari. Now I would imagine this is best done with a lot of top growth, long before a trunk chop, on the tree to aid in the layering and to encourage root growth. But then again can there be too much top growth?
Then I would like to time the removal of an air-layer off the top of the tree with the first trunk chop. Makes sense to me. One cut good, two cuts better. But can a tree handle a ground layer for new nebari and then be trunk chopped within a year or two? Will the new nebari even grow properly with all this chopping and cutting to make the would procedure of doing a ground layer even worth while?
I’m all confused. Maybe I shouldn’t mess with a ground layer for the nebari at all. Maybe just knick off the bark here and there, do a minor ground layer, to encourage new root growth, I think I heard of someone doing that somewhere.
Actually I just found this on Colin Lewis site down in the "elm" section under "roots" that says to not let new nebari grow amongst the old?
http://www.btinternet.com/~colinlew...ivia.html#roots
Anybody have any ideas