dustin

Im researching now and have 3 trees I plan to trunk chop in a day or two. I havent seen anything consistent on whether or not to seal the cut? I read one website from a guy who likes to do a prependicular cut, above a branch if he can help it, not seal and let it die back. Another states to pick what you think will be the eventual front and do a 45degree cut with the wound in the back of the tree and seal it. So to make this easy as many posts exist on trunck chopping, should I
1) just whack the trunck where I want, perpendicular, dont seal and let it die back and remove the dead wood after a season or

2)a 45 degree cut in the back of the tree and seal it.

My stock is two trident maples and an oak.

Thanks for any advice on this.

!Oh one more thing, one of the Tridents I want to do root over rock, so how soon would a repot over the rock without severe root prune be kosher after the trunk chop.

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