$5 shohin boxwood quicky

Remi

I bought a couple boxwoods from a farm/garden supply store when i was in the next town over. The both had really great nebari so i thought they would be good practice. The one here was an obvious choice for a broom it needed only a few wires (still needs a couple more but im out)and some serious cutting back. the second one i snapped in half while i was working on it oh well.
Feel free to comment or make suggestions of course

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Mcspeed

Make your notes on that to read like this snap, lignified box - wood is brittle and the snap sound is common, train it rather than try to bend it.

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Remi

I managed to snap some decent pics out in the daylight today a little better then the first ones

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treebeard55

Nice little tree! But one thing you want to address: if the pics show it accurately, then you've already got a bit of reverse traper where the branches begin.

Not much you can do to remove that, but the tree may grow out of it. You don't want it to get worse. The way to do that is make sure there are no more than 2 leads (branches, or branch and trunk) coming from any one join. I think you'll have to decide which branches you want to remove, and do it soon.

Good luck!

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rschlafer

You are lucky that you are able to bring your tree into the kitchen. My wife would kill me

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