Chamaecyparis from it's beginnings

gorillagirl

You will see a vast difference between the styles of my trees and Asus's. He is sick of me saying cut it back, it is too rangy, chop that off, get rid of that hideous branch.

I will be putting this tree in a box after wiring and letting it get some thickness. Will post the final pics tonight or tomorrow and ask for some critques. (got Ausu to post as I couldn't be bothered resizing on my puter)

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anttal63

ok gg lets have a chat it looks like you are having a ball there, thats great.

but seeing the whole grow box thing has been brought up and your not potting into a bonsai pot, you need to know this.

this is something we have all done in the beginning, that is taking off the bottom branches.

i cannot stress enough how important the bottom branches are in the long term. try to leave them on your trees especially when you are growing on. think about working down the tree rather than up the tree.

they serve 2 extremely important functions
*1 to thicken the base of the trunk
*2 a better future option as the tree, still supple for bending and twisting ( some exceptions)

i hope this helps.

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