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Double ohseven,
In my area it doesn't get that cold in the winter. We don't have to move the trees into shelter. they stay all year in the same place. Having said that, they are very very quiet-restful as you say. I have found that heat turns them into growing machines. June thru Oct. here they grow like mad.

For many years I would trim back hard in late summer. Then cold weather would come and I would have this bald tree for like 6 or seven months until the next super sprurt in summer. Now I leave it nice and full and you will get to enjoy a nice canopy all that time. In early summer I do the hard trim then stand back watch er grow. Uh huh

30-Nov-2004	#2
Bonsainut Carrier of Bonsai Fever Join Date: Oct-2001 Location: So-Cal, US of A Country: America The Beautiful USDA Zone: Zone 9-10 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 1,833	Double ohseven, In my area it doesn't get that cold in the winter. We don't have to move the trees into shelter. they stay all year in the same place. Having said that, they are very very quiet-restful as you say. I have found that heat turns them into growing machines. June thru Oct. here they grow like mad. For many years I would trim back hard in late summer. Then cold weather would come and I would have this bald tree for like 6 or seven months until the next super sprurt in summer. Now I leave it nice and full and you will get to enjoy a nice canopy all that time. In early summer I do the hard trim then stand back watch er grow. Uh huh __________________ Keep growing,---'Nut Lethal Use of Farce