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Greybeard
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,206
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Photo 1 shows the most immediate promise. I have included it below. The image seen in photo two shows what I hope to accomplish this year.
In red are the next chops to be done this spring. First in red chop 1 I will remove the remainder of the dead trunk area. I had good scar coverage and I think it added appropriate taper. That is what you need in a chop. This one did exactly what I wanted it to. After removing the deadwood, I will chop the leader back to red chop 2. This will probably heal in one year due to it being so small. Hopefully the tree will bud where I have the two green branches drawn in. If it does, the hard part is over. The tree can be built from here on out. The green part will be chopped at no. 3 next year, and then an apex will be built on that area. This should yield a tree about 6 to 7 inches tall with a 2 1/2 inch trunk. The branching will be added by thread grafting, and will take place this spring after the appropriate buds open. Buds do not seem to grow from scar tissue to easily. No use grafting if the tree is not what I want yet. The blue line suggests the future planting angle.
Thats it Kids, not much different then the way they do it in Asia. Just more of them and probably better stock to start with. I'll check back here in the spring and post the follow up after it buds and we can see where this tree will be then.
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