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12-Oct-2001
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Encourageing budding
Here's a question that's been bugging me for a long time. My folks gave me a Juniper mallsi (actually it's a Sam'sClubsai) as a gift a couple of years ago. The tree has actually survived longer than I thought it would but it looks terrible. It has a lot of foliage on the vary ends of thin secondary branchs. How do I encourage budding closer to the main branch. I have tried pinching the growing tips with no luck? Any help would sure be appreciated.
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Re: Encourageing budding
With the Juniper, I think you should use Rommel's two-pronged approach (or was it three prongs?)
1. Fertilize like crazy 2. Remove a significant amount of foliage. With junipers, cutting away something like 1/3 to 1/2 of the total foliage triggers an outburst of foliage. A good part of it will probably try to originate at the forks of the branches where you won't especially want it. But you should get some intensive back budding. Timing this well couldn't hurt, like maybe once the frost is gone, if you get any.
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