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13-Jul-2002
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Great, now I can see. Looks like it is time to wire!
Wire the whole trunk entirely first from base out to that branch on the upper right. Poke the wire down into the soil till it bottoms out and then wire your way up to the top. Keep the coil spacing nice and even from top to bottom and applied correctly it should look more like a peppermint spiral than a tightly coiled spring. About 3 turns to the first branch, no more and the same spacing all the way up. 1) bend the trunk so it emerges from the soil at an angle 2) Make the trunk bend away from your first branch there. The one coming straight forward should become a side branch, your first branch. The tree comes out of the soil leaning towards it and then bends away above it. 3) Cut off the long branch at the top upper right. Save the larger of the buds. (The nice one coming forward) and save the branch coming off to the right, which will become the new leader. It would be best to remove those items before wiring, but I am trying to be clear as I move through the tree from bottom to top. 4) Twist and bend the trunk again so that this bud, the nice fat one, winds up on the other side opposite the branch in step 2) and 5) Twist one of the buds in the leader up to be the new apex and point the other out as a branch.
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13-Jul-2002
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Heres another shot with some wiring,, were i have the cut mark,, is it the right area ,, or am I lost in space ,, or both Lost and right cut ??
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13-Jul-2002
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No! The top is very nice.
Remember, new will rapidly extend 1-2" or more and you have to take this into acount. 1) Cut that big ugly worthless uninteresting branch on the left off and save the bud as indicated in #3 above. The bud has the potential to branch and quickly create a well ramified branch. The other does not. 2) Start the bend at the first branch lower and make it more abrupt like an angle. 3) It doesn't appear that you wired all the way out to the apex. but stopped some 3" from the end. This would have given you the ability to align the apex, Regards, Matt
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15-Jul-2002
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Most would consider this wiring a little loose, but a i think with respect to the kind of growth you'll be seeing that this should be fine for the lower trunk. It is getting a bit too loose at the top.
1) Try to get at least one more coil of wire around the apex, and bring it over into about the angle the lower tree has. Maybe a little less. 2) Reposition the bend in the lower trunk. The bend above would be appropriate if the first branch were an inch lower, but 3) Always anchor wires at least two turns around the trunk or wire from branch to branch. It looks like that first branch's fine wire gave you a little trouble for that reason 4) Wire that first branch down at an angle, about the same angle as the two needles that are poking out 5) I can't see what's going on in the third dimension, but a picture from the side might be helpful. The trunk can have some movment that way as well.
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15-Jul-2002
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OK!
Now bring the apex (part above the second branch) down at an angle similar to the one that the trunk is emerging from the soil / You can point the very last bud back up if you like. In general - I like more abrupt angles in the trunk. This is purely a stylistic thing. Some people like softer, more feminine curves in their pines, but two things to keep in mind 1) the trunk tends to straihten as it grows, 2) the distance between branches will appear to grow shorter. This is because the trunk and branches increase in caliper, and the effective spacing of the branches does not. As a result the branches appear to get closer together over time. Because of rule 2, sometimes it is the ganglier, leggy tree that improves drastically in the long run because space has been allowed to for the branches to grow. The young, well proportioned tree can run into problems for this same reason. Regards, Matt
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15-Jul-2002
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Looking very good. The alignment of the apex is good from the first branch up.
Getting that part of the tree more centered over the root system would be helpful in keeping everything in balance. To help do this, you could take up some of the horizontal distance between the root base and the first branch. A couple ways to do that, and it could be a combination of the two. 1) Make the lower trunk more vertical. That would shift things to the left a bit. 2) Add a slight bend in the lower trunk in the forward-to-back direction. It won't look much different from the front but from the side there would be a little movement. 4. Tip the apex slightly forward so it bends toward the viewer.
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