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Late 2003 and early 2004 was spent in wiring and pinching. The basic shape had been decided and most of my time was spent on branch definition and refinement. Pinching alone is almost enough on shimpaku's to achieve this, but the wire helps to further define the shape. Fertilizer this year is same as the previous year, but with the increased foliage, I am able to folier feed. This is done with dyna-gro and seaweed extract.
My first shape during the end of 2003 had the crown much too peaked and looking too much like a young pine tree. Early in 2004, I decided that the apex sholud be more rounded and flatter, adding more to the illusion of an older tree.
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