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Originally Posted by clint
Hi, just a question, I'm a complete novice at all this right now. When growing a maple in the ground to let the trunk thicken should you also be pruning the branches back to keep it shorter or should you just let them grow to help with the thickening? thanks.
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Pruning would generally defeat the purpose, unless it is done for shaping. The tree is "kept shorter" by chopping it back once every year or two (or three or four, depending). Grow, chop repeat as necessary.
Short answer -- let it GROW!
pootsie