Never seen anything like this

laen ssor

I had made a post earlier about a chinese elm I had planted into the ground and how it had just exploded with growth. The other day I was out watering and this elm had just crowded out everything in the area. I had planned on taking cuttings off it in spring but I just couldn't let it grow any more because it was even crowding out our birdbath. So last night I decided to prune about 4 inches off the tips of all the branches that are growing wild. Well today I went out to water the plants again and I was amazed to see all the nodes behind my prunes had grown from a single leaf to between 7 to 9 pairs of leaves on new branches.

I cannot believe that much growth occured in one day and especially so when the temperature has been hitting 100 for darn near the whole month.

Even my Trident Maple a few feet away is shooting up about 5 inches a day.

Absolutely amazing....

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007

so wait . . . you're saying that 7-9 leaves grew from dormant buds . . . overnight?

Needless to say, I am skeptical . . . but I guess nothing is impossible.

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Will_Heath

Maybe it's not so very insane?

Joanie

Back away from the trees, and don't let them smell your fear.

That is waaaaay too much growth for overnight.

Are you sure you didn't lose a couple days somewhere? Alien abduction or something? Chinese elms respond well to pruning, but not usually with growth that you can actually see happening.

And the maples? Five inches a DAY? Sure you don't have kudzu instead?

Wow. Impressive.

Joanie

jloeschner

Just...DON'T...climb...it!!!! Thar be jients up thar!!!

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It's amazing what plants can do in the ground with an established root system. If you're used to container growth rates it is an eye opener. I remember seeing candles 18-20" long that grew into 3' branches on my black pine.

I planted a nicely tapered Dawn Redwood with a 5" trunk across the street to try to clean up a large pruning scar on the front. It's now about 20 feet tall has no pruning wound and look ma, no taper either. I gave up on that one. The neighbor has the tallest Dawn Redwood bonsai in town.

These things want to be TREES

Imagine that!

Regards,

Matt

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laen ssor

I wasn't hallucinating as far as I know. I measured the Trident and it grew just as I say. I did not mention about the elm how the growth was only on the last three or four internodes below the cut. The growth behind them stayed relatively slow but the growth behind the cuts are all fresh green growth. I know it sounds wild but I cut my front yard Sunday and the branches were sticking out to the point the lawnmower was hitting them. So I cut them back Monday evening and yesterday evening I saw all the new growth and almost fainted. I was waiting for Jack or the Green Giant to climb up it or something.

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007

That's awesome! I wish I could stick things in the ground at may apartment.

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pootsie

Neal:

I for one believe you. I have a landscape tree in my front yard that was heavily pruned this year, and it had water-sprouts (aka epicormic sprouts) longer than I am tall within a few weeks.

I think it helped that the tree was getting oodles of h2o, being positioned in the flower bed. I wish the flowers did so well, sigh. I'm florally retarded.

pootsie

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