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Old Mister Crow
Join Date: May-2002
Location: Seattle, WA.
Country: USA
Posts: 3,197
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Originally Posted by Attila
Hi Donna,
I certainly don't disagree whith Carl's recommendation, mine was a little more cautious, for people with less experience.
There are slightly different roads to the same destination.
(BTW, what happened is that I started my response over 1 hour ago, then I was interrupted by a long phone call, and by the time I finished, Carl sent his. Had I read his response, I wouldnt' have sent mine, to avoid confusion on your part)
Regards,
Attila
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And for my part, I agree wholeheartedly with Attila's timing suggestions - he's stated what I meant to, quite a bit more precisely. I should have stressed that an early-winter trunk chop is not a great idea, for the reasons that he mentions. Here in Seattle, I'd chop around March 1. Basically, one is trying to balance the need to get growth relatively soon after making the chop with the need to avoid chopping after the tree has started to shift energy into the above-chop region in the spring.
As for rootwork, certainly no harm in going with Attila's recommendations. With Japanese maples, I've never suffered anything worse than slow growth regardless of how hard I work the roots - but your mileage could well vary there and by leaving the roots largely intact you would get stronger growth to help in healing the chop scar.
With my best regards,
Carl
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